- Compleo will produce 38 first-gen HPC charging stations for Deutsche Telekom spinoff.
- The units will be installed at DT sites in Cologne, Neuss, and Isernhagen.
- Production of stations to begin in April 2023.
Deutsche Telekom subsidiary Comfort Charge has ordered 38 first-generation HPC charging stations from EV charging solutions provider Compleo.
Announced in a press release, the new high-powered charging stations, each with a capacity of 200kW, will add to the 172 fast-charging stations Comfort Charge already operates, using DT locations. The units will be installed at sites in Cologne, Neuss, and Isernhagen.
Production for the fast-charging stations is set to begin in April 2023.
Beyond them, Comfort Charge has commissioned an additional 420 AC charging points, expanding its current network of around 600 AC chargers that are “based on the proven Compleo hardware”.
Comfort Charge Chief Technology Officer Mathias Laubenstein commented that it “specifically opted for the new HPC technology” owing to its “excellent fit for [its] existing system”. It was noted that quietness in operation, short servicing times and efficient power management features will lead to easy integration with the current infrastructure.
After stating orders for vehicles with internal combustion engines will cease as of 1 January 2023, the move reinforces Deutsche Telekom’s push on electrification. Despite initial scaling down of highly ambitious early plans for the project, including a plan to deliver chargers to 12,500 locations across Germany, Comfort Charge has continued expanding past a subsequent, 2018 target of installing 500 cabinets over three years at key locations (Deutsche Telekomwatch, #82 and passim).
With one of Germany’s largest company fleets of 23,000 service and business vehicles, Deutsche Telekom has invested in a number of sustainability efforts alongside Comfort Charge. It has taken a stake in charging infrastructure enabler ENIO, which is now working with T-Systems alongside Comfort Charge and American software vendor ServiceNow to unify EV charging efforts (Deutsche Telekomwatch, #117).
Comfort Charge also assisted the Zukunftstaxi project in Hamburg, an e-mobility effort that saw the company deploy nine DC charging stations across the city. The project launched in March 2021 and saw the business continuing to expand its operations across Germany.
