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  • Juice equips charging station with payment terminal from Wallee

    Juice equips charging station with payment terminal from Wallee

    Juice Technology AG and the Wallee Group AG in Winterthur want to simplify the charging of electric cars. To this end, the Bachenbülach-based manufacturer of charging stations and software is equipping its Juice Charger me 3 charging station with the payment terminal from the Winterthur-based payment service provider. In future, users will be able to pay with credit and debit cards as well as contactless with Apple Pay, Google Pay or Twint thanks to the Wallee terminal. This should make other charging cards superfluous and lead to fairer tariffs, as fewer parties are involved in the earnings, according to a press release.

    “As a partner that, like Juice, comes from the canton of Zurich, we offer the perfect complement for Juice charging stations,” said Sascha Krüsi, CXO and co-founder of Wallee, in the press release. Christoph Erni, CEO and founder of Juice, sees the future of e-mobility in the combination of innovative technology and trustworthy payment services.

    The charging station can also be used by commercial providers. For example, restaurants, hotels, retailers or companies with company car parks could become providers of the stations. The Juice and Wallee system is already in use in Laax GR and the Riedmatt Centre in Rümlang ZH.

    The Juice Charger me 3 is compatible with all e-cars.

  • AMAG also installs solar plant in Cham

    AMAG also installs solar plant in Cham

    AMAG Zug now also has a photovoltaic system (PVA). On 1301 square metres, 667 solar modules are expected to produce 263,040 kilowatt hours of electricity per year. According to a media release, this will be used on site for the car dealer’s own needs. Another PVA each is planned on the roof of AMAG Zug’s VW showroom and on the public AMAG car park in Cham, it said.

    In the past two years, PVA has already been installed on roofs of AMAG operations, including in Basel, Wettswil ZH, Lupfig AG, Chur, Baden AG, Etoy VD, Oftringen AG, Buchrain LU, Winterthur and Maienfeld GR. “We are proud that we are now also one of the companies within the AMAG family that have a photovoltaic system and can thus produce a large proportion of the electricity we use ourselves,” CEO Herbert Sommerhalder is quoted as saying.

    By 2025, the AMAG Group will have equipped a total of around 75,000 square metres of its roof area with solar panels as part of its sustainability and climate strategy. This corresponds to an area of around ten football pitches. According to the information provided, this will enable the company to produce more than 20 percent of its current electricity consumption itself.

  • AMAG Porsche Centre gets solar power

    AMAG Porsche Centre gets solar power

    On 5 May, the AMAG Group commissioned a photovoltaic (PVA) plant with an output of 87 kilowatts peak on the roof of the Porsche Centre in Winterthur. The new plant is part of a major offensive in which the Group has already set up a whole series of solar plants on the roofs of AMAG operations. By 2025, around 75,000 square metres of surface area are to be equipped with solar panels, informs the automobile trading group headquartered in Cham in a statement. This would be sufficient to cover over 20 per cent of the Group’s electricity requirements. AMAG also aims to achieve climate neutrality by 2025 at the latest.

    The new plant on the roof of the Porsche Centre will contribute around 86 megawatt hours of solar power annually towards this goal. “For us, it is a great pleasure that we now not only stand for Porsche’s great products in the Winterthur region, but also for sustainability and climate protection in accordance with the AMAG Group’s strategy,” Marcel Renz, Managing Director of AMAG First AG’s Porsche Centre Winterthur, is quoted as saying in the statement. “Thanks to PVA, we will be able to cover our own electricity needs to a certain extent.”

    According to the statement, the AMAG Group is pursuing the goal of becoming the leading provider of sustainable individual mobility. The acquisition last year of the solar company Helion, which specialises in photovoltaics, heat pumps and e-mobility, should also be seen against this background.

  • AMAG produces more solar power

    AMAG produces more solar power

    The AMAG Group has further expanded its solar power capacity: It has commissioned a new photovoltaic system on the roof of its garage operations in Cham. The 312 solar modules produce around 138,000 kilowatt hours of electricity on just under 570 square meters. According to a media release, this will cover a maximum of 30 percent of the company’s own electricity needs.

    The automotive retailer wants to increasingly produce its own electricity. It is to be used for personal use in the garages and for the operation of the electric vehicles sold. Therefore, according to the data, about 75,000 square meters will be equipped with solar panels by 2025. This corresponds to an area of ten football fields. Further expansion potential of around 100,000 square meters is still being investigated. From 2025, the company aims to operate in a climate-neutral manner.

    In addition, the roofs of AMAG Chur will be thermally insulated and fitted with translucent domes. “Thanks to the natural light, we save some of the costly and electricity-intensive lighting,” the managing director of AMAG Chur, Jan Giger, is quoted as saying. “Insulation helps lower energy costs and reduce gas consumption for heating.”

  • AMAG honors Griesser AG

    AMAG honors Griesser AG

    Griesser AG is the winner of this year's AMAG Family Business Awards , the Zug-based automotive company informs in a press release . The family company based in the St.GallenBodenseeArea was able to prevail against the two other finalists CTA from Münsingen BE and Nachbur from Holderbank SO. As the winner of the Family Business Award, the company is allowed to keep an all-electric Skoda ENYAQ SportLine iV made available to all three finalists for a year after the end of the year.

    Griesser AG was founded in 1882 as a roller shutter factory by Anton Griesser. The company, which is now in the fourth generation of the Strässle family, specializes in the development and manufacture of innovative shading solutions. Sustainability is mentioned in the communication as one of the cornerstones of the company. On a social level, this is expressed “in respectful and responsible interaction across all hierarchical levels”. On an ecological level, Griesser has set itself the goal of making all production sites climate-neutral by 2035. In addition, the company's fleet of 400 vehicles is to be converted to alternative drives such as electric by 2030.

    "The Family Business Award stands for AMAG's exemplary values in terms of sustainability and social responsibility," Griesser COO Pascal Strässle is quoted as saying in a Griesser statement on the award ceremony. "We are proud that Griesser carries on these values with the award".

  • AMAG acquires solar specialist Helion

    AMAG acquires solar specialist Helion

    AMAG , based in Cham, is acquiring the Helion division of the Zug-based company Bouygues Energies & Services . The car dealership reached a contractual agreement on this with the provider of building and energy supply technology on September 2, according to a media release .

    Accordingly, the purchase should be completed by the beginning of November. The Helion division, which specializes in photovoltaics, heat pumps and e-mobility, is to be fully integrated into the newly founded AMAG Energy & Mobility business unit of AMAG Group AG as an independent stock corporation. AMAG will take on all of Helion's employees as part of a business takeover.

    The AMAG Group specializes in the import and sale of Volkswagen, Audi, SEAT, Skoda, Cupra and VW Commercial Vehicles vehicles. In the future, she would like to “develop into the leading provider of sustainable individual mobility”. In the field of electromobility, the company wants to use the takeover of the solar specialist to offer its customers new services and to produce the electricity itself to operate the electric vehicles it sells.

    "Helion makes it possible to offer our private customers complete solutions for everything to do with electromobility via our trading and service partner network," Helmut Ruhl, CEO of the AMAG Group, is quoted in the media release.

    The newly founded AMAG Energy & Mobility division is headed by Martin Everts. He was previously Head of Corporate Development at AMAG and is a proven energy expert. According to the information, Helion will continue to be managed by the previous management team around the two founders Noah Heynen and Samuel Beer.

  • ABB supplies chargers to Chinese electric car factory

    ABB supplies chargers to Chinese electric car factory

    ABB chargers ensure the charging capacity for up to 120,000 vehicles in an e-car factory owned by the Chinese Dongfeng Motor Group and the Japanese Honda Motor Company . Dongfeng Honda will use it to equip the assembly and test lines in its more than 980,000 square meter plant in Wuhan.

    As the company writes in a press release , Dongfeng Honda has selected a range of different chargers “based on its previous positive experience with low and medium voltage products from ABB”.

    As part of its industrial development plan for energy-efficient and new-energy vehicles by 2035, China expects that one in four new vehicles sold in the country will be an electric car by 2025. More than 64 million are expected to be on Chinese roads by 2030.

    "The development of charging capacity must go hand in hand with the booming sales figures for electric cars," said Frank Mühlon, Head of E-Mobility Infrastructure Solutions at ABB. "We are excited to support Dongfeng Honda in implementing their electric vehicle strategy."