Power2Drive 2024: Technagon in DC and EM fever
At Technagon, we were already awaited by Sandra Kampf, Head of Marketing, and CEO Manuel Pledl. They explained the renaming of their partly new range. For instance, the Technagon P40 becomes TEP4, the 45 to TEP4 HAK, the P80 to TEP8, and the W30 to W60 to TEW3 to TEW6. According to Kampf, this is intended to simplify the program structure.
But even the products received a small yet fine update in detail: This includes a new profile half-cylinder with a Technagon key since mid-April 2024. Service personnel thus need to be equipped with two keys, enhancing security. The Technagon charging module saw improvements in lighting, cable output, and connection plug, with a subtle design optimization as well. Additionally, a new, darker housing color was introduced, which according to Pledl was extremely well-received: “It feels like customers are only ordering the darker gray now, even though it was initially just an option or color variant,” he rejoices. Efforts were also made to improve the closure of the W40 along with an adjustment of the locking plate to further enhance operability and security.
Even the smallest details are reworked
It’s evident that much attention to detail is put into work in the Bavarian Forest, as was true for an EM laminate, which, according to Pledl, several had already vied for: "We hope it hasn’t been dismantled by the end of the fair,” he joked.
But improvements weren’t limited to this: The PC was enhanced with new status LED functions and an enlarged SIM card slot.
For the first time, they also launched the new DC station TEW5 with up to 40 kW and TEW6 with up to 60 kW at two outlets. Structurally, they remain within the modular system but increasingly target the (semi-)public sector, where more and more DC solutions for 1 to 2-hour dwell times are in demand. This is complemented by the compact TEW3 as a “premium wallbox,” so to speak, allowing the Grafenau-based company to cover the entire portfolio from private to public sectors – yet always consciously at the upper end of each segment.
Besides the charging module, there is also a ready-made payment module, which brings us to the billing partner GLS, who deliberately showcased products from other manufacturers to demonstrate that various hardware can be integrated into the GLS payment software. Especially since, according to Uwe Nehrkorn, the authorized officer and Tech Business Developer EV Payment at GLS, the trend is clearly moving towards payment terminals where individual charging points can be selected. Equipping each individual charging point with payment options would be unnecessarily expensive. Thus, one can select all remaining stations from a Juice Charger me 3 at the booth.
It's important here to have a crystal-clear and easily understandable display for the customer and an even simpler payment method that always works. For demonstration purposes, he switches briefly between the individual charging points and hopes that the Afir regulation will further accelerate the expansion of the charging infrastructure and massively increase customer acceptance. Because nothing is more hindering than limiting users with respective charging cards that do not function at specific points.
What does that mean?
GLS Mobility and Technagon primarily addressed the semi-professional, public, and semi-public domains at their booth – and offered many large (Afir-compliant, DC chargers) and small details that are worth noting.
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