Tier/Swobbee: Connection to Audi Charging Hub via E-Scooter
After the launch of the first urban Audi charging hub at the exhibition grounds in Nuremberg, the micromobility provider TIER Mobility has announced the launch of a connected mobility station. The automaker is collaborating with the e-scooter sharing service as well as with the battery-as-a-service provider Swobbee. In addition to the six reservable high-power charging points and the lounge area available on site, e-mobilists have the opportunity to rent e-scooters. The energy supply is managed by two battery sharing points with interchangeable batteries. This means that users have a mobility option for short distances not only during the charging time of their vehicle.
"In addition to a premium-worthy place to stay, Audi drivers thus also have a premium mobility service at hand with virtually unlimited range," promotes Tobias Breyer, CMO and co-founder of Swobbee.
This intermodal offering represents a forward-looking link between micromobility and electromobility with cars, adds Breyer. The charging hub at the exhibition center in Nuremberg is another building block in the development of a decentralized network of charging stations, which can help reduce and avoid distances and emissions, says Jan Halberstadt, General Manager Germany at TIER.
"Thanks to the interchangeable batteries of our e-scooters and the innovative battery swapping station from Swobbee, we can make the operational management of our fleet even more efficient and sustainable," explains Halberstadt further.
All e-scooters are equipped with swappable batteries, rendering otherwise cumbersome charging logistics unnecessary, where the e-scooters would otherwise have to be collected daily and brought to central warehouses for charging. Thanks to the swappable batteries, the local team of permanent employees can replace the empty batteries directly on-site with charged ones, significantly reducing travel routes and emissions, the provider promotes the model.
Swobbee claims to be the world's first manufacturer-independent battery swap and charging infrastructure with an intermodal approach for small electric vehicles such as e-scooters, e-cargo bikes, or e-scooters. At the stations, an empty battery can quickly be exchanged for a full one. Already in June of this year, a battery swap station was put into operation in Düsseldorf as part of a joint pilot project by TIER and Swobbee, which has since been intensively tested, as reported.
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