MAN does charging deal with ABB E-mobility
Infrastructure specialist ABB E-mobility has signed an agreement with MAN Truck & Bus to work on research and development, with the emphasis on megawatt charging. MAN senior vice-president (engineering) Thomas Nickels said that enabling megawatt charging was key to sustainable and economical long-distance heavy goods and passenger transport.
“By cooperating with ABB E-mobility we can tackle the challenges of the new technology at an early stage and drive standardisation forward more quickly,” he said.
A key to megawatt charging is Ethernet communication between vehicle and charger, which is now covered by the ISO15118-20 standard.
Early software and interoperability tests with vehicles and charging stations should help to establish reliable products as quickly as possible in an emerging market environment, MAN said. The cooperation, which is initially scheduled to run for three years, is focusing on the customer experience right from the start, in addition to the internal development and further development of charging stations, vehicles and software.
