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“We wanted to know more about our product from a climate perspective” Charge Amps wanted to determine the climate footprint of their premium design charging stations for passenger cars. The life cycle analysis carried out by IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute provided the company with confirmation that they were on the right path. It also opened the door to improvements. “We have done an important job together with IVL, and I’ve noticed that our customers think so too. Our sales staff receive a great many questions, and we’ll soon be launching the results more widely,” says Ingrid Nordmark, Chief Technical Officer at the company. Charge Amps is a company that manufactures premium design charging stations for homes and businesses. They are aimed at people who want a slightly cheekier look by their garage door, as Adam Lewrén, an expert at IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute, puts it. The company was born when the founder purchased an electric car in 2012 and faced a desperate lack of good charging solutions. He started developing his own at home at the kitchen table. Today, Charge Amps is growing strongly, their charging stations are selling well and the company has recently conducted a rights issue in order to make further progress. The charging stations – Charge Amps Aura and Charge Amps
Halo – are named after light phenomena. When the company was in the starting blocks to begin developing the next generation of Charge Amps Halo, Ingrid Nordmark had the idea of carrying out a thorough analysis of the product’s climate impact. “We wanted to know more about our product from a climate perspective. We were just about to start the development of a new generation, and the best way is to learn lessons from what we’ve already done,” says Ingrid Nordmark. Ingrid Nordmark has worked at research institutes herself, so the decision to collaborate with IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute was not a particularly difficult one. “I know they have a great deal of knowledge there. That IVL is at the forefront as regards research, but that they also understand the language of industry. This was crucial for us.” IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute is the body in Sweden with perhaps the greatest experience in life cycle analyses (LCAs). The parts for Charge Amps Halo are manufactured in China and
“Everything was done extremely professionally. IVL’s experts were highly successful at extracting information, developing complex connections and, moreover,summarising them in a clear manner.”
Ingrid Nordmark, Chief Technical Officer at Charge Amps
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