Singapore (VNA) – Two Singapore companies - Power-Up Tech and Beecharge Innovation Group - have been given the green light to offer mobile charging for electric vehicles (EVs) for the next four years.
With the approval from the Land Transport Authority (LTA), Power-Up Tech will be allowed to deploy up to ten mobile charging systems to support EVs, including vans and buses.
At 160 kilowatt-hours (kWh), each of Power-Up’s power packs stores enough electricity to power a one-room housing board flat for more than a month.
With the current set-up, each of its ten mobile charging systems can serve 100 EVs a week.
In terms of performance, a Power-Up spokesman said its mobile system can charge a BYD Atto 3’s EV battery from 20% to 80% in around 30 minutes. Power-Up charges an EV’s battery up to only 80% because, with current battery technology, charging speed slows significantly beyond this point.
Meanwhile, Beecharge Innovation Group will dispatch up to eight sets of mobile charging systems to support providers of shared EVs and commercial fleet operators.
Beecharge’s spokesman said the company now has three mobile charging systems capable of handling up to 500 EVs a week. It plans to have eight units by the end of 2024.
These companies have power packs and EV chargers that are loaded onto vehicles, allowing them to offer on-demand charging services to EV drivers with no convenient access to a permanent charger.
In a statement on June 11, the LTA said it issued permits to two other outfits to test battery charging and swopping systems for electric heavy goods vehicles over four years.
All the four trials will start gradually in the second half of 2024./.
