{"id":389269,"date":"2022-07-28T11:51:58","date_gmt":"2022-07-28T09:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/innovationorigins.com\/?post_type=selected&p=389269"},"modified":"2022-07-28T11:51:58","modified_gmt":"2022-07-28T09:51:58","slug":"commercial-vehicle-charging-gets-major-boost-with-e15-million-investment-in-dutch-firm-leap24","status":"publish","type":"selected","link":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/en\/selected\/commercial-vehicle-charging-gets-major-boost-with-e15-million-investment-in-dutch-firm-leap24\/","title":{"rendered":"Commercial vehicle charging gets major boost with \u20ac15 million investment in Dutch firm Leap24"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sustainability investor Meewind<\/a> has invested \u20ac15 million towards the expansion of Leap24<\/a> \u2013 a start-up focused on the provision of fast-charging stations for commercial vehicles, according to a press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meewind\u2019s funding will contribute to the expansion of Leap24\u2019s network of fast charging stations in the Netherlands, Germany and the United Kingdom. An agreement has also been reached on the long-term support for growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In anticipation of a new market<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

By 2025, 30 Dutch cities will have introduced zero-emission urban distribution zones aimed at taking the carbon footprint out of commercial vehicles. As a result, business users need locations to quickly charge their vehicles, underlining why Meewind is investing in Leap24. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Niels van Heesewijk, investment manager at Meewind, said: \u201cMore and more cities want to introduce a zero-emission urban distribution zone, but that brings with it the necessary challenges. In order to realize these ambitions, both cities and companies depend to a large extent on the availability of charging infrastructure. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLeap24 has now proven that they are able to build fast charging stations for business traffic in a relatively short period of time. By investing now, the participants of the Energy Transition Funddirectly contributes to the expansion of the network to forty locations in the Netherlands and the first locations to open in the United Kingdom and Germany.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

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Start-up builds software to prevent charging stations from overloading <\/div>
Hungary’s Smart Capacit System, a firm developing software to prevent charging stations from overloading features as a start-up of the day.<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n

The chicken-and-egg situation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

At the start of February, LEAP24 also secured an investment of \u20ac4.25 million. Pelle Schlichting, founder of Leap24, says the company is so popular for the very simple reason that they are breaking the ‘chicken-and-egg problem’.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He elaborates by saying: \u201cThe zero-emission urban distribution zones are a fact, but especially in the large cities it is not feasible for many entrepreneurs to charge the delivery vans and\/or trucks on their own site. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The design of the LEAP24 charging stations \u2013 spacious charging stations, suitable pavement and the fact that we can quickly install an above-average number of charging stations \u2013 ensures that we are one of the few players in the Netherlands to be able to break through this chicken-and-egg problem. This new investment round enables us to scale up internationally even faster and thus make an important contribution to accelerating the energy transition.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

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From gas station to charging station, for car and passengers<\/div>
The growing market for fast charging is not only being picked up by gas stations. There’s a bunch of other places that benefit from the rise in e-driving.<\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":2497,"featured_media":514137,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":""},"categories":[],"tags":[25323,23535],"location":[6763],"internal_archives":[],"class_list":["post-389269","selected","type-selected","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-charging-stations","tag-electric-vehicles","location-netherlands"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":[],"featured_img":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Bence-Buza-en-Kristof-Lengyel-scaled-e1650311885845.jpg","coauthors":[],"author_meta":{"author_link":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/author\/p-felcenlobeninnovationorigins-com\/","display_name":"Pierre Felcenloben"},"relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 4 years ago","modified":"Updated 4 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on July 28, 2022","modified":"Updated on July 28, 2022"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on July 28, 2022 11:51 am","modified":"Updated on July 28, 2022 11:51 am"},"featured_img_caption":"","tax_additional":{"category":{"linked":[],"unlinked":[],"slug":"category","name":"Categories"},"post_tag":{"linked":["charging stations<\/a>","electric vehicles<\/a>"],"unlinked":["charging stations<\/span>","electric vehicles<\/span>"],"slug":"post_tag","name":"Tags"},"language":{"linked":["EN<\/a>"],"unlinked":["EN<\/span>"],"slug":"language","name":"Tags"},"post_translations":{"linked":[],"unlinked":[],"slug":"post_translations","name":""},"location":{"linked":["Netherlands<\/a>"],"unlinked":["Netherlands<\/span>"],"slug":"location","name":"Locations"},"internal_archives":{"linked":[],"unlinked":[],"slug":"internal_archives","name":"Internal Archives"}},"series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/selected\/389269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/selected"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/selected"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2497"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389269"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=389269"},{"taxonomy":"internal_archives","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/internal_archives?post=389269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}