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Cure Afvalbeheer is a Dutch waste management company that is 100% owned by the three municipalities and cities of Eindhoven, Valkenswaard and Geldrop-Mierlo. Cure has set itself the goal to reduce their emissions on various levels and to stand up for a future worth living. In particular, the focus is on reducing the CO2 emissions by their trucks, in which the businesses plan is for all trucks to be powered by electricity by 2030. Together with Heliox, since 2020, they have charging infrastructure for their trucks that needs to be expanded to enable more vehicles to be charged.
During the first phase of this project in 2020, Heliox helped CURE to have a charging solution for their first electric truck. For the first scope of this project Heliox installed a 300kw charging solution to support CURE to start their switch to electric trucks.
After two years, CURE as aimed for a fully electric future, thus the current charging solution needs to be expanded to cater to more trucks and daily charging sessions.
In the second scope of the project Heliox will deliver a total a 8 chargers (3X 360kw and 5x180kw) to create a 2.3MW charging solution. Until the end of 2022, the 180kw chargers will be connected to 10 wall mounted DC outlets, the 360kw chargers will be connect to six 500 amp charging columns early 2023.
With the new upgrade charging infrastructure CURE can charge their truck in a fast, reliable and flexible way in their own depot. With this new upgrade CURE will be one of the first waste management companies to be fully electric, as they plan to have 14 truck using the charging depot in January of 2023 that will grow up to 35 until the end of next year.
More importantly, this new charging infrastructure has proven to be positively disruptive in breaking traditional patterns of waste management and has enabled Cure to work in line with national and regional climate policy objectives.
Heliox and TU/e aim to develop an integrated solution that makes charging heavy electric vehicles accessible without negative consequences for local electricity networks. Together, we want to achieve this by developing and demonstrating a new, multiple and dynamic charging system for heavy electric vehicles that is equipped with software-controlled stabilization to absorb disturbances on the local energy grid.
The intended system will consist of a dynamically configurable charging system based on modules that can be connected in parallel, each with three 60 kW outputs. With this they want to be able to distribute the loading capacity dynamically over several vehicles. The charging system can therefore be used for opportunity charging up to 360 kW for a single vehicle as well as for regular charging of several vehicles.
In addition, smart software and a microcontroller board are being developed. The converter of the charging system can be used via this software to compensate for grid disturbances. The disturbances are neutralized via a low impedance path. This allows losses on the grid to be converted into usable energy, while improving the voltage quality of the grid. In fact, the system completely takes over the function of current power filters on the basis of smart control.
Cure Afvalbeheer is a Dutch waste management company that is 100% owned by the three municipalities and cities of Eindhoven, Valkenswaard and Geldrop-Mierlo. Cure has set itself the goal to reduce their emissions on various levels and to stand up for a future worth living. In particular, the focus is on reducing the CO2 emissions by their trucks, in which the businesses plan is for all trucks to be powered by electricity by 2030. Together with Heliox, since 2020, they have charging infrastructure for their trucks that needs to be expanded to enable more vehicles to be charged.
During the first phase of this project in 2020, Heliox helped CURE to have a charging solution for their first electric truck. For the first scope of this project Heliox installed a 300kw charging solution to support CURE to start their switch to electric trucks.
After two years, CURE as aimed for a fully electric future, thus the current charging solution needs to be expanded to cater to more trucks and daily charging sessions.
In the second scope of the project Heliox will deliver a total a 8 chargers (3X 360kw and 5x180kw) to create a 2.3MW charging solution. Until the end of 2022, the 180kw chargers will be connected to 10 wall mounted DC outlets, the 360kw chargers will be connect to six 500 amp charging columns early 2023.
With the new upgrade charging infrastructure CURE can charge their truck in a fast, reliable and flexible way in their own depot. With this new upgrade CURE will be one of the first waste management companies to be fully electric, as they plan to have 14 truck using the charging depot in January of 2023 that will grow up to 35 until the end of next year.
More importantly, this new charging infrastructure has proven to be positively disruptive in breaking traditional patterns of waste management and has enabled Cure to work in line with national and regional climate policy objectives.
