Berend Simons
Co-founder, Editorial lead
Berend co-founded Volt Time and Plugchoice and has worked in EV charging since 2014, first as an installer. He leads Plugchoice's reporting on the charging market: hardware, OCPP and the software behind it, with a focus on original sourcing and direct confirmation from the companies involved.
Aktuelle Artikel
- A payments group now owns two of the charging back offices your depot might be running on
- A German draft law would cap solar feed-in at half, and that quietly limits home batteries and bidirectional cars too
- Mercedes-Benz and ChargePoint now sell you the workplace chargers with the vans
- A QR code and Apple Pay: ChargePoint operators can now take ad-hoc payments without an app
- Hyundai picked an energy company to run charging inside its own app
- The EU grid code consultation closed with 117 responses, adoption is now set for Q4
- Your NewMotion charger is yours. Take it back.
- The EU's new grid code puts bidirectional chargers in a class of their own
- Zaptec's Benelux revenue more than doubled in a quarter Alfen's charging arm shrank
- NEN opens a self-declaration register for NTA 8043 smart charging points
- Alfen grew 23.6 percent in H1 and its charging business shrank 17.4 percent
- Kadaster finds 2.5 million Dutch homes with room for their own charge point