HERE’S an ultra rapid charger that will change your experience of charging your electric vehicle: the new Turbo Power Systems (TPS) built Velox 480kW ultra rapid charger.
It’s being unveiled in final pre-production form at the London EV Show (29 Nov-01 Dec 2022).
The Velox charger is British designed, developed and built by an engineering company that designs and builds bespoke power solutions for aerospace, transport and other technology-led industries.
According to TPS, the Velox chargers deliver multi-bay ultra-rapid charging speeds, which it does through a smart network energy system that manages grid, solar, battery and EV on an efficient DC microgrid. The company says it does so without the need for costly and complex infrastructure and installation work that has proved so problematic for many businesses.
We know that lots of businesses and organisations are struggling with how to implement high speed charging without major groundworks, upgrades to sub stations and long-winded planning applications, and our system does away with the need for any of that.
Many rapid charger solutions are reliant on extensive upgrades to cabling and the grid to provide the power. At TPS, we design and build solutions for planes and trains that have to use the available energy in extremely clever ways – you can’t just rely on huge amounts of unlimited power. You have to work with what you have and engineer solutions from there, and so we have taken this same approach with this charging system.
Using smart energy management, we can take in the most efficient manner possible power from the grid or onsite generation, hold it, store it, and move it, so that vehicles can be charged at high speed whenever they need.
The Velox charger unveiled at the show comes in two configurations: i and c. The i version – which stands for integrated – achieves speeds of up to 120kW, while the c model – or compact – is a scalable system up to 480kW, both connected to an innovative distribution grid inverter that manages a smart DC network to direct power to where it is best utilised.
TPS says the system has been designed for use by any fleet that requires high speed charging. It is particularly suitable for organisations with depots, compounds or vehicle parks but have found that the cost and time involved in installing rapid charging has until now been prohibitive.
“A delivery fleet depot where it needs to reduce downtime, and charge many vehicles all at once would find it transformational,” Neves added.
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