ChargeUp Europe is an EV charging infrastructure industry association, bringing together EV charging infrastructure sector players to work together to pursue the development and rollout of high quality infrastructure throughout Europe.

ChargeUp Europe also counts with the expertise of our knowledge and eco-system partners, find out more about them at the bottom of this page.

 

Who is involved?

 

Industry Members

Allego is a leading provider of electric vehicle charging solutions, dedicated to accelerating the transition to electric mobility with 100% renewable energy. Allego has developed a comprehensive portfolio of innovative charging infrastructure and proprietary software, including its Allamo and EV Cloud software platforms. With a network of almost 35,000

charging ports (and counting) spanning 15 countries, Allego delivers independent, reliable, and safe charging solutions, agnostic of vehicle model or network affiliation. Founded in 2013 and publicly listed on the NYSE in 2022, Allego now employs a team of 220 people striving every day to make charging accessible, sustainable, and enjoyable for all.

Founded in 2010, EVBox empowers forward-thinking businesses to build a sustainable future by providing flexible and scalable electric vehicle charging solutions. With its offering of residential, commercial and fast charging stations, as well as scalable charging management software, EVBox ensures that electric mobility is accessible to everyone. The company has shipped over 400,000 charging ports to customers and partners and processes more than 1.4 million charging transactions per month on the EVBox Everon charging management software. Backed by ENGIE, EVBox is a leader in R&D, with facilities across Europe and North America developing groundbreaking electric vehicle charging technology.

ChargePoint is headquartered in Campbell, CA, and has been committed to making it easy for businesses and drivers to go electric since 2007, with the largest EV charging network and most complete set of charging solutions available today. From workplaces to fleet, residential to retail, ChargePoint is creating the new fueling network to move all people and goods on electricity. To date, ChargePoint’s network has grown to more than 101,700 places to charge with drivers plugging in approximately every two seconds while delivering more than 64 million charges. Hundreds of thousands of drivers and thousands of businesses and organizations around the world count on ChargePoint.

Fastned is on a mission to accelerate the transition to electric mobility. By offering Europe’s most reliable, convenient and joyful EV-charging experience across Europe’s highways and main road, we aim to inspire millions to drive on solar and wind energy so that together we can curb climate change.

Founded in Slovakia in 2011, GreenWay works as an electric mobility provider (EMP) and Charging Point Operator (CPO), responsible for both the physical infrastructure of charging stations, as well as drivers’ e-mobility experience. GreenWay’s operations across the region are growing rapidly. It is building and operating a comprehensive, nationwide electric vehicle charging infrastructure in Poland and Slovakia, consisting of its own charging points as well as chargers of a large number of business partners.

Evway by Route220 started in 2014 as the first completely interoperable charge point operator (CPO) and e-mobility service provider (EMSP) in Italy and is now the biggest private independent interoperable CPO and EMSP in the country. Evway acts as a digital platform to enable customer and stakeholder’s engagement, providing trip and tourism relevant information for EV drivers. Since its foundation, the company has been committed to developing an open and collaborative market in Europe. Evway has also recently started an EU Horizon2020 funded project as the Italian coordinator, with the scope of testing and implementing new charging experiences regarding the Plug and Charge standards.

Headquartered in Lisbon, EDP is a multinational utility company. Throughout their 40 years history, they have built a global energy presence with activities in 19 countries across 4 continents. They are active throughout the electricity value chain and are one of the biggest wind energy production companies in the world with almost 66% of their energy produced from renewable resources. EDP aim to lead the energy transition and mobility ecosystem growth in Portugal, Spain and Brazil.

TotalEnergies is a broad energy company that produces and markets fuels, natural gas and electricity. Their 100,000 employees are committed to better energy that is more affordable, more reliable, cleaner and accessible to as many people as possible. Active in more than 130 countries, their ambition is to become the responsible energy major. Their ambition is to operate 150,000 EV charging points by 2025.

Compleo is a leading provider of charging solutions for electric vehicles. The company provides support to complete solution providers with its charging stations and, if required, in the planning, installation, maintenance, servicing and back-end of charging infrastructure. Compleo’s range includes both AC and DC charging stations. They began producing its first charging stations in 2009. The high-growth company develops and manufactures all products at the headquarters in Dortmund, Germany, supporting innovation, safety, consumer convenience and cost efficiency. Compleo offers its solutions in more than 12 European countries.

Last Mile Solutions, Europe’s largest independent e-Mobility solutions provider with its HQ based in The Netherlands, offers the most advanced white label EV charging & smart energy management platform for your e-Mobility business. Last Mile Solutions serves more than 80 providers in 22 countries in the European market and has completed over 10 million charging transactions

With its cloud software, reev provides an easy-to-use and fully automated platform for the management, monitoring and billing of charging infrastructure. The reev Software has been specially designed to meet the needs of complex fleet situations in the semi-public sector, such as companies, residential and commercial properties, or multi-storey car parks. As the reev Software fulfils the OCPP communication standard, it is compatible with charging stations from a wide range of hardware manufacturers.

Powerdot is an EV charging operator focused on creating charging solutions that are fully embedded in people's lives. Since 2018, Powerdot has been partnering up with retailers by installing EV charging points in their car parking lots with any associated costs for the retailers. Today, Powerdot owns more than 10000 charging points in Portugal, Spain, France, Belgium, Luxembourg and Poland and has active partnerships with large retail chains such as E.Lecrerc, Intermarché, CBRE and McDonald’s.

Headquartered in Switzerland, ABB is a world leader in electric vehicle infrastructure, offering the full range of charging and electrification solutions for electric cars, electric and hybrid buses as well as for ships and railways. ABB entered the EV charging market back in 2010 and is now the partner of choice for the world’s biggest electric vehicle OEMs and nationwide EV charging network operators.

Ekoenergetyka is a Polish technological company founded in 2009 by two university friends, Bartosz Kubik and Maciej Wojeński. Today the company is the second SME company in the country employing almost 500 people. It is the largest manufacturer of fast charging infrastructure for electric vehicles in Poland with a 90% market share. It provides solutions to both producers of electric cars and buses as well as network and charging point operators, in countries like Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Spain, France, and Singapore. It is one of the leaders among manufacturers of high-power charging infrastructure in Europe with a 30% market share. So far, Ekoenergetyka has produced almost 3 000 high-power charging systems, and delivered them to 26 countries around the world. The company also provides global implementation and maintenance services, as well as monitoring and remote management of the charging infrastructure from its own Service Support Center.

bp Europa S.E. was founded on 30 April 2010 by merging the bp country organisations in Belgium, the Netherlands, Austria and Poland together with the Deutsche BP AG. In April 2011, bp (Switzerland) AG has been integrated into the SE. bp Europa S.E. is committed to electro-mobility, and to delivering a seamless charging experience for EV drivers, incentivising investment in e-mobility infrastructure, and creating a consumer-centric, open, and competitive market model for EV charging in Europe.

Schneider Electric is a worldwide leader in the digital transformation of energy management and automation, (with presence in more than 100 countries and with around 130K employees.). Schneider Electric aims at connecting the entire e-mobility ecosystem thanks to digital technologies to provide the most optimized energy management and clean energy strategy for homes, buildings, fleets, and other in transit charging stations.

Shell aims to operate over 500,000 charge points by 2025, up from 100,000 in 2022, as part of the company’s strategy to become a net-zero emissions energy company by 2050. We operate charge points for electric cars at homes, businesses, Shell retail sites, on-street locations and destinations. In addition, we currently offer access to over 300,000 additional charge points in Europe through our roaming agreements.

BorgWarner is a global product leader in delivering innovative and sustainable mobility solutions for the vehicle market, working towards a vision of a clean and energy-efficient world. With manufacturing and technical facilities in 96 locations in 22 countries and a comprehensive electric propulsion product portfolio, BorgWarner employs approximately 50,000 people worldwide.

Diebold Nixdorf (DN), based in Ohio, United States, is a global Service provider for Banking, Retail and Electric Vehicle Charging industry with approximately 22,000 employees in more than 130 countries. Diebold Nixdorf is a partner to the majority of the world's top 100 financial institutions and top 25 global retailers and its DN AllConnect Services℠ offer EV charging assistance to help retailers install, manage, and deliver quality services in their EV Charging Stations.

Plugsurfing is dedicated to bringing the carefree drive back to EV drivers through an alliance of all stakeholders of the public charging ecosystem. They bring drivers, charging point operators, and carmakers together through a single platform. Drivers benefit from reliable access to public chargers, charge point operators a scalable back-end, and carmakers integrations for their customers to charge on our network.

Be Charge is an integrated operator for electric mobility controlled by Plenitude through Be Power dedicated to the dissemination of charging infrastructures for electric mobility. Thanks to one of the most widespread networks of public charging infrastructures for electric vehicles in Europe, Be Charge wants to make a decisive contribution to the development of a sustainable mobility system through the innovative management of digital flows. To date, all the energy supplied by its network is certified renewable. Be Charge plays both the role of owner and manager of the charging station system (CSO) and that of a provider of charging and electric mobility services that interface with users of electric vehicles (EMSP).

Q8 is investing in E-mobility solutions across all its European operating units in Benelux, Sweden, Denmark, Italy and Spain: Together they are developing, each at different pace a network of (fast) chargers in their own stations, at partners’ locations and customers and via an international network across Europe. The goal is to ultimately connect all Q8 customers to a large and reliable EU charging network by means of the national Q8 fleet cards or apps. Moreover, Q8 aims to enable customers to have their own Q8 charger installed in their homes, with all the necessary hardware and service delivered by them.

Atlante is the result of the partnership between NHOA Group, which develops and invests in the network being owner and operator, Free2move eSolutions, in the role of supplier of charging technology, and Stellantis automotive group. It will be an open network, with privileged access for Stellantis customers. Atlante is a company of NHOA Group (NHOA.PA), formerly Engie EPS, global player in energy storage and e-mobility, which develops technologies enabling the transition towards clean energy and sustainable mobility, shaping the future of a next generation living in harmony with our planet. Atlante is developing the largest fast and ultra-fast charging network in Southern Europe, enabled by renewables, energy storage and 100% vehicle-grid-integrated (VGI). It aims to install in Italy, France, Spain and Portugal 5,000 fast and ultra-fast points of charge by 2025, and over 35,000 by 2030.

Electra is a French charging network founded in 2021. It is developing a public fast-charging network with high-power hubs all around France, focusing on major and medium-sized urban areas. To support the goal of speeding up the development of the French charging network, Electra’s focus on user experience is central.   Electra is present in Italy, Belgium and will soon be arriving in Switzerland, Austria and Spain. To this end, Electra plans to have more than 8,000 charging stations by 2030.

Zunder is the leading independent fast and ultra-fast charging operator for all electric vehicles in Spain. The company has the support of international investors such as White Summit Capital or Mirova, which recently invested 100 million euros in the company. The growth of the company is not limited to the Spanish territory. In 2022 it began its international expansion, having won its first public tender in France and reaffirming its ambition to deploy and operate more than 4,000 charging stations and manage more than 40,000 charge points through its platform in 2025, with an investment plan of €300M for that same period.

Driveco is a leading innovative electric vehicle charging company, whose mission is to bring electric mobility within everyone's reach. Founded in 2010 with the aim of decarbonising the transport industry, Driveco is a trailblazing company operating the second largest French electric vehicles charging network open to the public. It has over 8,000 charging points in operation or under construction. Convinced of the necessity to play its role in the reindustrialization of Europe, Driveco assembles its own 22kW charger in Angers, France and prioritizes European-made high-power chargers of 50kW, 150kW, 300kW and more.

DKV Mobility is the leading B2B platform for on-the- road payments and solutions, serving over 314,000 active customers across Europe with services and products to make mobility more efficient, seamless, and convenient. From charging infrastructure to planning and design and from advice to installation and electricity products, DKV Mobility offers customized supply solutions for electric vehicles and provides a complete and transparent supply service for electric vehicles – on the road, at home or at the workplace. Enabled by GreenFlux, DKV Mobility is offering an acceptance network of 468,000 charge points all over Europe. As part of DKV Mobility, GreenFlux is a primary contributor to accelerating EV charging infrastructure rollout in Europe. The company's SaaS platform enables CPOs and eMSPs to operate and scale their EV charging networks and driver services. Together DKV Mobility and GreenFlux drive the transition towards an efficient and sustainable future of mobility.

Drake & Farrell is a top provider of circular supply chain solutions, partnering with CPOs and hardware producers to give them a higher degree of control over the lifecycle of their products and increase the potential for reusing and recycling their charging stations and their components. Drake & Farrell fully repairs or refurbishes faulty charging stations to their original state when possible and dismantles them when repair or refurbish is not possible. The charging stations themselves, or their spare parts and materials, then get a second life by being used to replace other charging stations.

Founded in 1992 and based in Montpellier, IES Synergy designs and manufactures a complete range of recharging solutions: on-board chargers, mobile chargers, rapid recharging stations and software suites for electric vehicles (motorbikes, cars, buses, lorries, boats, etc.). The company has sold over 16,000 stations and more than a million on-board chargers in more than 50 countries. The company employs 160 people, more than half of them engineers and technicians. It expects to achieve sales of nearly €40m by 2023, 40% of which will be generated worldwide.

Alpitronic, based in Bolzano, is a fast-growing and innovative tech company founded in 2009 as a startup for the development of power electronic systems. In addition to development activities for the automotive sector with renowned customers such as BMW and Daimler, Alpitronic has been engaged in the development, production and commercialization of scalable DC fast chargers for electrical vehicles in the power range between 50 kW and 400 kW since 2017. The products managed under the Hypercharger brand are characterized in particular by their reliability, compact footprint and advanced design.  As of today, approximately 16.000 Hyperchargers (approximately 30.000 charging points) have been installed in the EU.

IONITY operates a network of high-power charging stations along highways in 24 European countries. All charging stations are open to electric vehicles of any brand, with several high-power charging points to recharge a vehicle’s battery in the shortest time possible. Sourcing renewable energy only, IONITY is a driving force for sustainable mobility.

OMV is transitioning to become a leading sustainable fuels, chemicals and materials company with a focus on circular economy solutions. The company is rolling out a comprehensive network of e-charging stations in central and eastern Europe. The implementation includes the installation of 2,000 charging points by 2030 to offer high-power chargers, with the majority ranging from 150kW to 300kW charging capacity. This forms part of the company’s path to becoming a net-zero company by 2050, thereby contributing to a successful energy transition.  

 

Knowledge Partners

The objective of the EVRoaming Foundation is to facilitate roaming services for charging electric vehicles and provide transparent information to consumers about charging locations and prices, by use of the open and independent Open Charge Point Interface (OCPI) protocol. The ultimate goal is to allow any EV driver to charge at any charging station in the EU: simplify, standardize and harmonize.

Arthur D. Little has been at the forefront of innovation since 1886. They are an acknowledged thought leader in linking strategy, innovation and transformation in technology-intensive and converging industries. The company navigates its clients through changing business ecosystems to uncover new growth opportunities. Enabling them to build innovation capabilities and transform their organizations.

AFRY is a European leader in engineering, design, and advisory services, with a global reach. The company is committed to accelerating the energy transition and has supported the transition to low carbon, clean energy power sources, and energy efficiency since the early 1990s. They are 17,000 devoted experts in infrastructure, industry, energy and digitalisation, creating sustainable solutions for generations to come.

Eco-system Partners

ALD Automotive is a global leader in mobility solutions providing full-service leasing and fleet management services across 43 countries to a client base of large corporates, SMEs, professionals and private individuals. A leader in its industry, ALD Automotive places sustainable mobility at the heart of its strategy, delivering innovative mobility solutions and technology-enabled services to its clients, helping them focus on their everyday business.

Elia is Belgium’s high-voltage transmission system operator and one of Elia Group’s subsidiaries. Elia Group is a key player in electricity transmission. It ensures that production and consumption are balanced around the clock, supplying 30 million end users with electricity. Through its subsidiaries in Belgium (Elia) and northeastern Germany (50Hertz), it operates 19,276 km of high-voltages lines, meaning it is one of Europe's top five transmission system operators. With a reliability level of 99.99%, it provides society with a robust electricity grid, which is important for socioeconomic prosperity. Elia Group also aspires to be a catalyst for a successful energy transition, helping to establish a reliable, sustainable and affordable energy system

Gireve combines Market Place, Transactions Processing, and Data Management technologies which make the company the leading B-to-B digital platform for EV charging. It offers the first coverage in terms of the number of charge points in Europe and facilitates mobility operators’ partnerships through e-roaming. It was created in 2013 by Renault, CNR, la Caisse des Dépôts, EDF et Enedis.

Eco-Movement is an independent European and Global data platform for EV charging stations. Data from hundreds of sources is integrated into a uniform, accurate and complete database. Additional enrichments are added through Machine Learning, designed by the in-house data science team. Eco-Movement makes charge point location data simple and accessible for the whole industry and is the data provider for major in-car navigation platforms, global consumer maps, the European Commission's EAFO initiative and various national and regional governments.

con|energy is a consulting and service company for the energy industry: they develop new strategies, concepts and products for and with their customers. With its specialized business segments, con|energy provides customers with tailor-made and unique solutions from a single source. Their customers and partners are established and new players in the energy industry.

Hubject is the largest eRoaming platform for electric vehicle charging infrastructure (EVCI) players in the world and therefore a critical player in the EVCI market, helping to connect 1.200 partners in 55 countries connecting over 400,000 charging points. Hubject’s own platform plays an important role in an interoperable European eRoaming market. Its platform allows market players, regardless of their business approach, size or place in the value chain, to participate. The platform provides a low barrier for entry, is non-discriminatory in nature, ensures open and equal access. It’s importance in the EV infrastructure industry is evidenced by the number of market players who connect with the platform.