In this edition of The Loading Bay: Voltempo’s Neil Durno hosts a discussion on the realities of fleet charging.
“Where will fleets actually charge? Not might they charge — where will they actually charge. This isn’t about theory or distant futures. It’s about the practical realities facing fleet operators right now: depot vs hub, public vs private, booking vs plug-and-play. Four experts sit down to tackle the real questions that matter when you’re moving from diesel to electric and need to keep vehicles earning. From total cost of charging to driver facilities, from grid connections to payment cards, this is what happens when infrastructure meets operational reality.”
Covering:
- Depot vs Hub: definitions, economics, and who builds what where
- The physics problem: vehicle size, charging speeds, and site design
- Payment simplicity: why 96% of transactions still use cards
- Total cost of charging vs the marginal cost trap
- Booking systems: when you need them (and when you don’t)
- Driver experience: from toilet access to rest break regulations
- Solar canopies, private wires, and energy generation realities
- The infrastructure gap: 3,000-8,000 sites needed by 2050
- Why the future will be “shared and messy” before it gets neat
Host
Neil Durno — Director of Market Development
Working with the eFreight 2030 consortium members to deliver the Zero Emission HGV Infrastructure Demonstrator
Guests
Kasia Chodurek — Director of Business Development, Aegis Energy
Building public clean energy infrastructure hubs for trucks and vans, from scratch designs to real-world testing.
Niall Riddell — CEO & Co-founder, Paua
Enabling payments and charging for electric fleets across depot, home, and hub locations.
James Brown — Senior Fleet Consultant, Energy Saving Trust
20 years helping fleets decarbonise, from driver behaviour to depot specifications.
About TwentyForty and The Loading Bay
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