A Brisbane startup targeted on fleet vitality administration and AC charging for electrical automobiles (EVs) has raised $5 million in a Sequence A from present buyers.
EVOS was cofounded by three former staff of the Nasdaq-listed Queensland quick charging firm Tritium. It beforehand raised $1.7 million in a Seed spherical two years in the past and since then has added 22 staff to its manufacturing, gross sales and engineering departments,.
Cofounder and CEO Marcelo Salgado mentioned the corporate is ready to launch a brand new house charger within the Queensland capital later this month within the wake of the spherical.
“This funding validates all of the onerous work the crew has put in since we launched our firm, and it reveals the idea our buyers have in a home-grown producer with the ability to ship game-changing choices for Australians,” he mentioned.
“Since launching, we’ve unveiled our first charger, the Fleet House 22 AC Charger and our patented Good Begin resolution to assist fleet and EV house owners simplify and scale back the price of charging.
“We now have quite a lot of new merchandise on the roadmap and this funding will assist convey them to market rather more shortly.”
The EVOS Fleet Home22 AC Charger was the primary Australian-made house charger to hit the market. It was designed to assist fleet companies higher handle prices and vitality, whereas being simply installable and uninstalled and to simplify the charging expertise for drivers. The corporate’s vitality administration system chooses the perfect idle time for the charger to cost the car, whether or not its in a single day in non-peak durations or throughout enterprise hours. It might probably additionally management cost fee, velocity and energy to make sure house owners can handle their vitality output, decreasing the prices of charging at house.
Gross sales of electrical automobiles proceed to develop strongly in Australia, with EVs making up 8.8% of recent motor automobiles offered in June this 12 months. It was a file degree, with a 10-fold enhance on 12 months in the past, with 11,042 EVs offered in comparison with 1137 in June 2022.
The Chinese language-manufactured Tesla Mannequin Y continues to be the market chief, with a file 5560 gross sales reported amid 7018 Tesla automobiles delivered to Australia in June.
The Mannequin Y was second highest promoting car in June behind the Toyota Hello-Lux at 6,142 automobiles.
That determine beats the earlier better of 5969 Tesla gross sales in September 2022, together with 4359 Mannequin Y automobiles.
Behind the consequence wasfor the Tesla Mannequin Y, beating its earlier file of gross sales set in September 2022 – and incomes it second place on the leaderboard for the primary time.