Leading Dutch Electric Vehicle Charging Station Manufacturer Alfen Joins Coulomb Technologies’ ChargePoint Network
Monday, July 18, 2011
Raleigh,
North Carolina - July 18, 2011 - Coulomb
Technologies and leading European electric
vehicle (EV) charging station manufacturer,
Alfen today announced that Alfen’s ICU Twin
public charging station is the latest to be
compatible with Coulomb’s ChargePoint®
Network. The announcement brings
significant advantages to Alfen’s customers,
giving them access to Coulomb’s family of
cloud-based solutions for managing EV charging
operations. Alfen’s customers also
become a part of the largest global EV network
supporting the greatest number of station
owners and EV drivers in the world. The
ChargePoint Network provides station owners
with cloud-based service plans that handle all
driver billing and support, and give them the
control and flexibility needed for successful
charging operations.
Alfen is Coulomb’s newest
ChargePoint On-Ramp Program partner. A
demonstration of the solution integration will
be shown at the Plug-In 2011 conference and
exhibition in the Coulomb Technologies booth
#121, July 18 – 20 in Raleigh, NC.
Coulomb Technologies is a
member of the Electric Drive Transportation
Association (EDTA).
“Customers buying Alfen
charging stations will be able to access all of
the deployment proven functionalities of the
ChargePoint Network service plans,” said Pat
Romano, president and CEO at Coulomb
Technologies. “Alfen joins the more
than 700 customers whose stations are part of
ChargePoint Network, the largest and longest
running global network supporting charging
station owners and their drivers in the
world.”
“Alfen has become one of the
most important producers of electric charging
stations with a network of more than 500
charging station locations in the
Netherlands,” said Elbert Lievense, Business
Manager, ICU at Alfen. “When
wide-spread adoption of electric vehicles is
realized, the impact of the grid will be
enormous, and intelligence will be needed for
this new challenge. It is this combined
technology that strengthens Alfen’s position
in developing and producing EV charging points.
The combination of Alfen charging
stations with Coulomb’s cloud services forms
the most comprehensive solution for EV charging
services. This partnership enables not
only the most complete management system
for EV charging services and fleet owners but
also grid owners.”
About
Alfen:
For more than 70 years, Alfen
BV has been a trusted and recognized
manufacturer and supplier of high, middle and
low voltage grid equipment. Alfen has
developed into an international, independent
and innovative powerhouse as a turn-key
supplier of substations including transformers,
MV systems, MV-switchgears with a complete
portfolio of design, production, installation,
monitoring and maintenance
activities.
Alfen has become one of the
most important producers of electric charging
stations in the Netherlands with more than 500
charging locations. Alfen has designed a
complete line of products to respond to the
varied needs of end-customers ranging from
municipalities and government organizations to
energy suppliers and distribution companies,
for public and private installations, and to
meet the varying electrical regulations around
Europe. For more information on Alfen
please visit
www.icu-charging-stations.com.
About Coulomb Technologies,
Inc.
Coulomb Technologies is the
leading electric vehicle charging solutions
company, providing the ChargePoint Network, the
largest global online network connecting
electric vehicle drivers to unoccupied charging
stations in over 14 countries; and the
ChargePoint Network service plans, cloud-based
solutions that handle all driver billing and
support and give organizations the control and
flexibility they need to optimize performance
of their electric vehicle charging operations.
Coulomb Technologies customers include
utilities such as Orlando Utilities Commission
and Austin Energy in the US, Nuon in The
Netherlands, and ESB in Dublin; municipalities
such as City of San Francisco and City of New
York in the US, City of Amsterdam in The
Netherlands, City of Newcastle in the UK, and
City of Bochum in Germany. Open to all charging
station manufacturers, Coulomb's ChargePoint
Network is currently charging more than 26,000
vehicles per month, dispensing over 115
Megawatt hours (MWh) of energy each month, and
doubling the electric transportation fuel
dispensed each quarter.