New Volvo Program Affords Truck Fleets Full-Service EV Infrastructure Improvement – Gas Smarts

Turnkey Options is a brand new program from Volvo Vans aimed toward serving to fleets with battery-electric truck charging infrastructure challenges. It is a consolidated fleet administration course of for procuring vendor companies, components, and merchandise for electrical automobile charging, based on the corporate. Turnkey Options additionally will assist fleets with planning for incentives, set up, and dealing with utility corporations.

The Turnkey Options electromobility program has two full-service companions — InCharge Vitality and Gilbarco Veeder-Root — and is offered to all Volvo Vans North America clients. 

“Figuring out sources for charging infrastructure may be an amazing job for fleet managers, so now all features of EV charging are coated by the Turnkey Options program,” stated Peter Voorhoeve, president, Volvo Vans North America, in a launch.

“We simplified the method for patrons, permitting them to simply flip to our solution-oriented vendor companions who perceive key features of the EV charging business. This makes the electromobility transition simpler for fleet managers, permitting them to deal with their each day enterprise operations whereas a devoted staff solves their infrastructure set up and energization.”  

All-Side Administration of BEV Infrastructure Improvement

The Turnkey Options program manages all features of the method to develop charging infrastructure and covers charging {hardware}, software program, allowing, set up, all of the interplay with the utility corporations, and sustaining charging tools. It’s designed to assist fleets with each step of the method to get charging infrastructure, together with assist with accessing out there incentives and writing grant proposals.

Prospects can obtain quotes from each InCharge Vitality and Gilbarco Veeder-Root to assist their charging wants and resolve which strategy to transfer ahead for a one-stop-shop resolution.

The electromobility transition goes past simply promoting battery-electric vans, Volvo stated, which is why it developed the Turnkey Options program. Charging infrastructure work wants to start out early to cowl lead instances, so this system provides clients charging choices so the charging infrastructure is put in and prepared when new electrical vans are delivered.

When clients join the Turnkey Options program, they’re paired with a Volvo Vans vendor who advises them on three pathways for his or her EV infrastructure improvement:

• Designing infrastructure plans, presenting funding and financing alternatives, and figuring out implementation companions
• Offering steerage and assist as fleets handle elements of their firm’s personal program; or
• Combining the 2 approaches, the place the shopper manages its personal infrastructure improvement however the charging {hardware} is acquired by Volvo Vans’ Vendor Direct Transport program.

Seller-Direct EV Charging Infrastructure Parts

The Vendor Direct Transport program was launched in late 2022 with Heliox and Gilbarco Veeder-Root and enhances the Turnkey Options program.

By means of the Vendor Direct Transport program, clients and sellers can order tools by the dealership components portal. Volvo Vans gross sales groups can help clients with the method and decide the kind of charger greatest outfitted for the appliance.

Volvo Vans just lately added InCharge Vitality to each the Turnkey Options and Vendor Direct Transport packages.

“By collaborating within the Volvo Vans Turnkey Options program, we are going to ship scalable {hardware}, software program, and repair options for fleets of two vans to five,000 automobiles, and Volvo Vans’ Vendor Direct Transport program makes us simpler to do enterprise with for fleets,” stated Terry O’Day, chief working officer of InCharge Vitality. “The packages and firms complement one another and make the transition to electrical charging infrastructure less complicated for fleets.”  

“Fleet operators play an important function in constructing out the nation’s electrical automobile infrastructure as they broaden their battery-electric fleets and we imagine this program will present them a easy resolution,” stated Deepesh Nayanar, head of e-mobility, North America at Gilbarco Veeder-Root.

“Gilbarco Veeder-Root strives to make the transition to electrification simpler for Volvo Vans’ clients by offering them with its trusted model of {hardware} choices, the EVerse absolutely related EV charging ecosystem and broad coast to coast service protection as a part of the Turnkey Options Program.”