Earlier today, Phillips & Temro announced the closure of its EvoCharge business. EvoCharge will stop selling new electric vehicle chargers today. It will also shut down its software for commercial and residential EV charging within 30 days.
ChargeLab is announcing support for EvoCharge customers seeking a new charging management system. Site hosts should contact ChargeLab to learn about turnkey migration services.
EvoCharge was founded in California in 2009 as an early North American distributor of Level 2 EV charging products. In 2019, EvoCharge was acquired by Phillips & Temro Industries, a global provider of thermal systems and solutions for the automotive industry.
After the Phillips & Temro acquisition, EvoCharge Network Subscription and EvoCharge app, enabling commercial and residential customers to connect their EV chargers for smart software capabilities.
Citing market challenges, Phillips & Temro announced the closure of the EvoCharge business line today. Software customers will have 30 days to migrate to a new back-end software provider.
ChargeLab is a hardware-agnostic software platform for managing EV chargers. Its mission is to solve smart EV charging at scale. ChargeLab’s customers include fleets, property managers, convenience stores, and utilities.
ChargeLab’s software and EvoCharge both use OCPP, an open protocol for connecting and managing EV chargers. This means that most EvoCharge customers can seamlessly migrate to ChargeLab either through remote or on-site reconfiguration of EV chargers. ChargeLab supports over 100 EV charger models built by dozens of manufacturers, including ABB, Autel, BTC POWER, Eaton, Lite-On, Wallbox, Zerova, and others.
ChargeLab’s team assists customers with a previous network migration
ChargeLab recently completed the migration of over 3,000 chargers following similar shutdown announcements from Enel X Way and Shell Recharge.
Based on the company’s learnings from previous migrations, ChargeLab is offering a turnkey migration service for EvoCharge customers. This includes new software that exceeds the capabilities of EvoCharge software, 24/7 EV driver support, and on-site migration support when needed. ChargeLab also partners with ChargerHelp, a company that provides comprehensive field support for performing migrations, as well as ongoing operations and maintenance plans for EV chargers.
Commercial, multi-family, government, and fleet customers are encouraged to contact ChargeLab to discuss network migration.
ChargeLab and EvoCharge are not affiliated. This news release was not drafted by EvoCharge or Phillips & Temro. ChargeLab can migrate EV chargers currently managed by EvoCharge thanks to OCPP, the open protocol that both services use.
ChargeLab builds software for managing electric vehicle chargers. Its mission is to solve smart EV charging at scale. ChargeLab helps building owners and installers deploy EV chargers across multi-family, workplace, destination, and public charging use cases. They leverage ChargeLab’s charging station management system (CSMS) and open APIs to efficiently manage thousands of EV chargers.
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