The Norwegian charging giant Easee has for several months been affected by sales bans in Sweden, layoffs and crises. The company had until 14 June to deliver a plan for improving the charging boxes installed in Sweden. It is the Swedish Electrical Safety Authority that has demanded that Easee explain how they will solve the problem with the chargers the Swedes do not want to sell. news has been given access to parts of the plan. The rest is sloppy. In the document that has been sent to the Electrical Safety Authority, Easee write that they want (the text has been translated from English): Carry out planned testing of the chargers so that they can supply the missing documentation. This must be done before 30 September. Provide new stickers and tags for the owners of the Easee Home and Easee Charge chargers. They will probably be done with this before March 2024. In summary, Easee therefore believes that they will send over more documentation and hand out new stickers to the owners of the disputed chargers. In Sweden, 100,000 Easee chargers have been installed, and the company must then send out 100,000 stickers. This is Easee In 2018, Jonas Helmikstøl, Kjetil Næsje and Steffen Mølgaard established the electric car charger company Easee. All had backgrounds from competitor Zaptec. The head office is in Stavanger. The company develops “smart” electric car chargers, and has experienced tremendous growth. In just a few years, the company has grown from three to around 500 employees. Easee has sold 700,000 chargers in Norway and Europe. The charging company’s turnover was close to two billion kroner last year. Operating profit before depreciation was between NOK 250 and 300 million, according to DN. Not good enough, says expert Jan Cato Hovde is the day-to-day manager of Rejler’s electrical safety, an expert company that oversees electrical installations. He is not impressed. Day-to-day manager of Rejler’s electrical safety, Jan Cato Hovde. Photo: Rejlers – The plan is very modest. In my view, they should have addressed the things that were missing, but the only thing they are thinking of improving is to clarify their documentation and get some stickers and labels with the information that the Swedish Safety Agency says is missing from the product, says Hovde. In the document, the Swedish Safety Agency has listed a number of points that Easee must rectify. Among other things, the much-discussed earth fault protection, which the Swedes believe is not satisfactory. – That is the most serious thing here. Easee believes that what they have is good enough, but it does not meet the requirements of the standard and then it is not good enough to stand in installations that have been carried out according to NEK400, says Hovde. – The plan does not need to be complex. Hovde believes that the Easee case ends in the fact that satisfactory earth fault protection must be installed in all the installations that have been made. He has previously estimated for news a cost of between NOK 4,000 and 5,000 per installation, which in that case could be very expensive for the company in crisis. Acting PR and communications manager at Easee, Marthe Kindervaag, tells news that the company has agreed with Hovde that the plan is modest. – The plan is modest because it does not need to be complex. We have learned from our mistakes and want to correct them by solving the documentation problem with updated documentation and new labelling, says Kindervaag. The charging box company Easee has been in rough weather this spring. Photo: Tom Edvindsen She emphasizes that the situation Easee has ended up in is due to insufficient documentation. With the plan for improvement, Kindervaag believes that Easee addresses the things that ESV believes are missing in order to meet the safety requirement. – We are now working on getting the necessary documentation in place – also on the points where we have deviations from the standard so that we are in line with the requirements of the governing authorities, she says.
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Easee believes more documentation and new stickers will solve the charging crisis in Sweden – news Rogaland – Local news, TV and radio
