KEBA and Easelink working on a joint product to enable automated charging for EVs at home

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In the future, KEBA customers will be able to easily extend their wallboxes with the automated conductive Matrix Charging technology.

The Austrian charging pioneers KEBA and Easelink are now pooling their expertise. The two companies share the same mission of enabling electric mobility on a broad scale by employing their technologies to make the charging of electric vehicles convenient, efficient and smart. In the future, KEBA customers will be able to easily extend their wallboxes with the automated conductive Matrix Charging technology.

The e-mobility specialist KEBA is a leading manufacturer of wallboxes and charging solutions. The high-tech company Easelink has specialised in automating the charging process by developing the Matrix Charging technology.

Matrix Charging is an automated conductive charging solution consisting of a vehicle unit and a stationary unit (charging pad) on the parking space. This system is therefore able to fully automate the charging process, eliminating the need for a classic charging cable connected to a wallbox that must be plugged in by hand. Matrix Charging is currently being used under real-world conditions on over 60 electric taxis in Vienna and Graz in the “eTaxi Austria” project, the world’s largest project for automated charging of electric taxis. 

KEBA and Easelink are now working on the next product generation of Matrix Charging for the charging of electric vehicles at home. One focus of the cooperation is to offer Matrix Charging as a feature to both new and existing customers as an additional automated charging interface alongside the classic cable of KEBA wallboxes. The Matrix Charging system establishes an automated connection between the car and the power grid. KEBA has sold over 500,000 wallboxes around the world. In the future, customers who already rely on KEBA wallboxes will have the option of very easily adding Matrix Charging to their system. 

“We are extremely pleased to be working together with e-mobility specialist KEBA on the next generation of charging at home. KEBA’s many years of industry expertise and deep-seated competence, ranging from electronic development to manufacturing, strengthens the position of the Matrix Charging technology as a future interoperable charging standard,” said Gregor Eckhard, COO Easelink.

Easelink is working with leading international automotive companies and suppliers on the realisation of a global Matrix Charging standard. The technology, which offers outstanding efficiency and robustness at low manufacturing costs, is already in use today, such as in the eTaxi project in Vienna and Graz.

“The Easelink technology has impressed KEBA with the high level of convenience it offers to users of electric vehicles, and it excellently complements our portfolio of intelligent charging solutions. The automation of the charging process and the almost continuous connection between the electric car and the home electrical system offers tremendous potential. This is especially true with regard to optimising charging to take advantage of excess PV power, assisting in grid stabilisation and enabling bidirectional charging – under the heading of vehicle to home (V2H),” said Gerhard Weidinger, CTO KEBA Energy Automation.

The partnership between KEBA and Easelink is the next important step towards better integrating electric vehicles into the power grid and intelligently controlling charging processes in the future.