Rush to the trade fair for charging technology

Rush to the trade fair for charging technology

At the end of June this year, around 260 exhibitors presented products and innovations for e-mobility in Munich. Now the analysis of the number of visitors shows the enormous interest: More than 106,000 visitors from 166 countries visited Power2Drive Europe 2023 and found out about mobility solutions at the parallel trade fairs. Conclusion: For the new edition of Power2Drive Europe from June 19 to 21, 2024, an area that is over 80 percent larger will be available. The success is not surprising, as the current new registration statistics show that the popularity of electromobility is growing rapidly in Europe. A comprehensive charging infrastructure in both the public and semi-public and private sectors is therefore urgently needed. In less than seven years, more than seven times the number of charging points currently installed across Europe must be set up in order to achieve the European Union's goals.

Power2Drive Europe 2023 made it clear that the smart combination of photovoltaics (PV), storage and e-mobility is the key to individual mobility of the future. For example, sector coupling is already being used in parking lots today, when charging stations are supplied with PV electricity directly from the on-site solar parking lot roofing, and thus makes a double contribution to the necessary development of the new energy and mobility world. In addition, the importance of electric vehicles as rolling energy storage devices is growing: electric cars can supply homes and offices (vehicle-to-home, vehicle-to-building) with electricity - and can also stabilize the public network (vehicle-to-grid). In the future, car batteries as flexible storage devices in an intelligent network will be a decisive factor in ensuring a stable energy supply and achieving climate goals cost-effectively. Marcus Fendt, Managing Director at The Mobility House: “Power2Drive Europe is becoming more important for us every year as it is developing into the leading product trade fair for charging electric cars in Europe.”

The Power2Drive Award honored innovators in the field of electromobility and charging infrastructure for the first time. The awards went to Hive Power for the software-as-a-service platform Flexo Smart Charge, paXos Consulting & Engineering for the Cool-Load Megawatt charging plug and Twaice Technologies for the “Mobility In-life Battery Health Analytics” software solution. The fact that e-mobility is becoming an important part of the entire smart energy system was also made clear by the awards given to Power2Drive Europe exhibitors at the parallel energy trade fairs: Wallbox Charger received “The smarter E Award” for the Sirius energy management system. The Mobility House was awarded the “EM-Power Award” for ChargePilot, an energy management system for optimized charging.