Yesterday, 28 September 2020, the starting signal was given for the unique marathon drive across Germany. Mannheim’s long-distance record holder Rainer Zietlow and his co-driver Dominic Brüner will show that eMobility is well established in Germany. For two months, they will cover more than 20,000 kilometres in an electric VW ID.3 on their way from Oberstdorf to List on Sylt, putting the charging infrastructure and the car to the test. The focus is on the availability and accessibility of charge points and the charging experience of EV drivers in Germany. With this initiative, they are raising funds for the SOS Children's Village in Bernburg/Saale.
Rainer Zietlow is known in the scene as a long-distance specialist: he holds three world record titles and seven long-distance records, and has traveled to 130 countries by car. Now he is taking the next step with the big players in the eMobility industry. His marathon journey of around 20,000 kilometres will take him all over Germany, powered almost exclusively with environmentally friendly electricity. The essential factors for the success of this tour in Germany include unlimited access to a nationwide, high-performance charging infrastructure, uncomplicated charging processes and, of course, a long-range EV.
Germany is ready for eMobility
Since 2008, has to be's CEO, Martin Klässner, has been driving the innovations and developments of eMobility. Always with the explicit mission to transform Germany and Europe into an electrified and easily accessible place for eMobility. The key factor for success is the charging infrastructure. The result of over ten years of expertise and knowledge is the cloud software be.ENERGISED from has to be GmbH, which meets all the requirements for managing charging stations and eMobility services. From access management to the automated billing of each charging process, currently over 12,000 of 30,000 public charge points in Germany are part of the be.ENERGISED network - and more than 30,000 throughout Europe.
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In short, Germany is ready for eMobility and today has a nationwide charging infrastructure, in the development and expansion of which Martin Klässner and his team from has to be GmbH played a major role. Thanks to them, Zietlow can charge at almost all of these 650 charging stations during the marathon drive with Volkswagen’s We Charge charging service. All of this, is possible because operating systems such as the be.ENERGISED cloud platform from has to be GmbH enables the efficient management of charging stations and scalable eMobility with white label services.
Access to all charge points in Germany
Access to all charge points available in Germany is made possible with has to be’s roaming network – the largest in Europe. With eMSP.OPERATION, has to be GmbH enables its customers to access the roaming charging network with more than 175,000 charge points throughout Europe with just one charging card, for example, the We Charge charging card from Volkswagen, and without any individual roaming contracts or costly billing with individual charging station operators. has to be customers benefit from transparent collective bills, favourable tariffs, and standardised processes. And all this with a network of charge points that is constantly growing throughout Europe.
Here you can follow the team on their progress from the Alps to the North Sea. (mfo)
