TCS partners with sun2wheel in e-mobility
Geneva/Obernau LU - Touring Club Switzerland (TCS) has acquired a minority stake in the startup sun2wheel from the canton of Lucerne. With this investment, the motor club wants to strengthen its commitment in the field of electromobility and enter the growing market for bidirectional charging and storage solutions.
Touring Club Switzerland (TCS) is investing in sun2wheel with a 20 per cent stake, according to a statement. Founded in 2020, the startup company develops intelligent charging and storage solutions for electromobility. The focus is on bidirectional charging stations, which use e-vehicles themselves as storage devices instead of a permanently installed battery. This allows better utilization of self-produced solar energy and improves demand-based load management. The storage solutions are particularly interesting for homeowners, real estate companies and SMEs including their vehicle fleets.
TCS wants to offer the advanced technology to members who drive an electric car and can optimize their own consumption of electricity generated on the solar power system thanks to the charging station’s intelligent control. The e-vehicle acts like a power bank, because it can be both charged and deliver electricity to the grid. By participating in sun2wheel, TCS is making an important step to strengthen the further development of the intelligent control of charging stations, said TCS director Bernhard Bieri.
The merger supports the "self-consumption optimization of photovoltaic systems and grid-serving charging," added Marco Piffaretti, founder and chairman of the board of sun2wheel. As well as its exclusive right to sell bidirectional EVTEC charging stations in the B2C sector, sun2wheel is also a provider of monodirectional charging stations that customers can replace with a bidirectional station within two years.
