Austrian startup pushes for shared depot charging infrastructure

In short, the platform allows transport operators to find, connect with and share depot charging infrastructure for mutual benefit, according to the company. Pricing remains at the provider’s discretion, including the terms of access to their charging points. Users can view tariffs and key charging details in advance, while billing is handled automatically via the ‘Charge with Friends’ platform.

Transport operators with their own depot charging infrastructure can offer spare capacity to other users via the platform, as long as it is not required for their own fleet operations. This can help increase utilisation, generate additional revenue and improve the return on investment. For example, if electric trucks are only charged overnight, charging points can be made available to other logistics providers during the day.

In turn, these operators can use the ‘Charge with Friends’ platform to access additional charging options en route—often at lower cost than public fast-charging networks. kW-Solutions indicates a typical price range of around 30 to 40 cents net per kilowatt-hour.

“It will help overcome the bottleneck of en-route charging and contribute to the scaling of electromobility,” says Korbinian Kasinger, Managing Director of kW-Solutions.

At launch, kW-Solutions claims to have secured ‘several leading companies in heavy-duty e-mobility’ for the new platform. Schachinger Logistik, Reder Transporte, and Schlager Transport Logistik ‘already support Charge with Friends,’ according to kW-Solutions.

The company positions ‘Charge with Friends’ as part of a broader vision. As a provider of integrated charging and energy management solutions, kW-Solutions aims to embed electromobility seamlessly into existing systems—for example through its ‘Charly Transportation’ software. Its approach is built on three core pillars: security, optimisation and networking. With ‘Charge with Friends’, the focus is on the latter, aiming to improve connectivity across the transport sector so that previously siloed depot charging infrastructure can be utilised more efficiently across companies.

However, the project is not entirely without precedent: just last week, the German logistics provider TST Logistik officially launched its cooperative depot charging network for electric trucks under the name ‘dragonize.’ There, too, companies can make their depot chargers available to other businesses—a model TST has been advancing at its headquarters in Worms since 2025.

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