Munich-based The Mobility Home, an organization that gives mobility vitality options, introduced on Wednesday, April 24, that it has secured funding from RheinEnergie, a Cologne-based vitality service supplier.
Nevertheless, the precise particulars in regards to the funding weren’t disclosed.
The announcement comes 4 months after appointing Herbert Diess, the previous CEO of the Volkswagen Group, as its new Govt Chairman of the Board.
RheinEnergie is an vitality service supplier answerable for supplying vitality and ingesting water to round 2.5 million individuals, trade, commerce, and commerce.
Along with vitality and ingesting water, the corporate presents quite a few vitality options for personal people, commerce, and trade.
“This strategic alliance is a vital constructing block for us, particularly for our clients. With The Mobility Home by our aspect, we achieve experience and considerably develop our scope, notably in digital and interconnected providers associated to actual property and mobility,” says Andreas Feicht, Chairman of the Board of RheinEnergie.
RheinEnergie x The Mobility Home: Automobile-to-Grid Expertise
The collaboration between RheinEnergie and The Mobility Home marks a big step in the direction of bridging the hole between the vitality and mobility sectors.
The brand new partnership between RheinEnergie and The Mobility Home helps the objective of intelligently integrating automobile batteries into the grid.
The vehicle-to-grid expertise idea makes use of electrical automobiles not solely as technique of transportation but additionally as cell vitality storage items that may feed vitality again into the grid when wanted.
The Mobility Home’s expertise portfolio focuses on reworking cell and stationary electrical automobile batteries into aggregated storage and adaptability potential.
The collaboration between the 2 corporations presents RheinEnergie many advantages, which can be demonstrated sooner or later by means of a particular provide for electrical automobiles.
As a part of this strategic partnership, RheinEnergie will develop its providing particularly within the vitality provide for households and electromobility sooner or later.
Moreover, RheinEnergie can be introducing a brand new electrical energy tariff for people this yr that may considerably cut back charging prices by a whole lot of {dollars} yearly. The Mobility Home will present the mandatory technological elements, whereas RheinEnergie will stay the dependable vitality provider and direct contractual accomplice.
The Mobility Home: Emissions-free vitality and mobility future
Based in 2009 by Thomas Raffeiner and led by CEO Robert Hienz, The Mobility Home goals to create an emissions-free vitality and mobility future.
To combine electrical automobiles into the ability grid, the corporate has created an “expansive” accomplice ecosystem, which incorporates electrical automobile charger makers, 1,000+ set up companions, 80+ vitality suppliers, and car producers like Audi and Tesla.
The clever Charging and Power Administration system — ChargePilot, and the underlying EV Aggregation Platform allow clients and companions to combine electrical automobiles into the grid for optimised and future-proof operations.
The German firm globally manages greater than 1,600 charging areas intelligently by means of the Charging and Power Administration system ChargePilot.
Since 2015, the corporate has been concerned in additional than eight worldwide V2G pilot tasks, together with the most recent Replicable V2X Deployment For Faculties (RVXDS) venture, which can implement bidirectional charging at 4 California faculty areas.
In 2024, the corporate will launch the primary industrial V2G service on the European market along with Mobilize, a Renault Group model.
At present, The Mobility Home has greater than 250 workers throughout its operations in Munich, Zurich, and Belmont, California.
“We’re happy to welcome RheinEnergie as an investor and accomplice. Collectively, we are able to speed up the realisation of our imaginative and prescient of ‘zero zero’, charging electrical vehicles totally free and emission-free, making it extra accessible to a wider viewers,” says Thomas Raffeiner, CEO of The Mobility Home.