Park & Charge

Park & ​​Charge is a European charging infrastructure for solar and electric vehicles.

On reserved for electric vehicles parking simple lockable charging stations will be set up that have all the necessary safety equipment. Have access to Park & ​​Charge users. Since the E -Mobile are energy efficient in general, relatively small amounts of electricity are traded on the Park & ​​Charge charging stations. By eliminating complex technology and with the simplest organizational measures such as the flat-rate billing (flat rate ) of the related energy and the administrative costs are kept low.

Park & ​​Charge operates since 1998 a database that will be published in the locations of the charging stations. The LEMnet database is also open to other providers and has developed into a central overview of charging points in Europe.

History

In 1992, established under the " pilot and demonstration project (P & D) " of the Federal Office of Energy, Bern in the first four locations of Park & ​​Charge. After a three -year trial period, the project put into regular service could be transferred. The " scooter club in Switzerland " (ECS ), which had accompanied the project, took over the financial and legal responsibility for Park & ​​Charge. In the following years, Park & ​​Charge developed so well that it needed a separate legal entity. The end of 1997 & batch Park was established as an autonomous association (President Wilfried Blum, Managing Director: Eduard pride ).

Park & ​​Charge was available outside of Switzerland. In Germany, was founded in 1997 by the Bundesverband Solare mobility Arbeitsgemeinschaft Park & ​​Charge for operation. Since 1999 there is also Park & ​​Charge stations in Italy and Austria. In Austria VLOTTE took over operation since 2010, a project of " Vorarlberg electric automobile planning and consulting GmbH" in conjunction with the Vorarlberg power stations AG ( FMV). More charging points are located in Lichtenstein, France and the Netherlands.

( LEM " Light electric vehicles " in German ) 1995-2001 ( VEL1 ) and 2001-2005 ( VEL2 ) carried out in the canton of Ticino was in succession the " pilot and demonstration project (P & D) " studies " Veicoli Elettrici Leggeri ". Here, a network of over 100 charging points was established by RiParTI ( Rica Riche e Parcheggi in Ticino - loading and parking in Ticino ) are managed. Since February 1, 2011, these charging points can be used with Park & ​​Charge access key.

Function

The key that allows access to all the Park & ​​Charge charging stations in Europe, the users against the payment of a deposit fee. The deposit will be refunded after the return of the key.

The uniform for the whole of Europe vignette is used to identify your scooter against the law enforcement agencies and is valid from 1 December of the contribution period preceding year to 31 January of the following year. Entitles you to use the specially marked and reserved for electric vehicles parking areas.

The vignette " energy " for the current year shall entitle the user for the entire grant period for the purchase of energy ( flat rate ) on all Park & ​​Charge charging stations in Europe. The prices of the vignettes are set by the respective national organizations.

Locations

Today offers Park & ​​Charge at nearly 500 locations in Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Holland and Italy the opportunity to recharge electric vehicles.

LEMnet

The list of charging stations of Park & ​​Charge was placed in a list to the members available. The survey also included charging stations third-party providers, as far as this was open to the use of electric vehicles.

After the reorganization of Park & ​​Charge the club set up an open database on the Internet, which is operated since 1998. The name is derived from LEMnet the prevailing battery-electric vehicle types the Park & ​​Charge members, the light electric vehicles (short LEM ). These only require a simple outlet to load them overnight, so in the LEMnet also appear locations of taverns, who cooperate with the owners of electric vehicles.

With the renaissance of the electric car, the LEMnet database developed to a central overview of charging stations in Europe with several thousand locations where charging stations and outlets are available for e -Mobile. The operators of commercial charging stations report their locations and the LEMnet database, the association cooperates 2012 yet with 30 providers. On March 26, 2012, a reorganization was in Jena then decided to transfer the operation of the LEMnet database in a stand-alone club, the LEMnet Europe eV, which is worn next to Park & ​​Charge also by the cooperative association of e-mobility clusters in Central Germany.

Since 2013, the LEMnet of LEMnet Europe is operated eV.