{"id":148566,"date":"2021-02-02T17:14:43","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T16:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/?p=148566"},"modified":"2021-02-03T09:35:33","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T08:35:33","slug":"wallbox-espana-obtiene-33-millones-de-euros-de-capital-fresco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/2021\/02\/02\/spains-wallbox-gains-e33mn-fresh-capital\/","title":{"rendered":"Espa\u00f1a: Wallbox obtiene 33 millones de euros de capital fresco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>El proveedor espa\u00f1ol de soluciones de recarga Wallbox cerr\u00f3 una ronda de financiaci\u00f3n de 33 millones de euros liderada por los nuevos inversores Cathay Innovation y Wind Ventures. Tambi\u00e9n participaron inversores ya existentes como Iberdrola y Seaya Ventures.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Wallbox espera que el nuevo capital inyecte iniciativas estrat\u00e9gicas de crecimiento como la apertura de nuevas oficinas en todo el mundo, la ampliaci\u00f3n de las instalaciones de producci\u00f3n e I+D y la contrataci\u00f3n de m\u00e1s de 400 nuevos empleados.<\/p>\n<p>El consejero delegado, Enric Asunci\u00f3n, tambi\u00e9n mencion\u00f3 que la empresa quer\u00eda \"seguir desarrollando nuevas tecnolog\u00edas e irrumpir en nuevos segmentos.\"<\/p>\n<p>En concreto, la empresa con sede en Barcelona acaba de anunciar su expansi\u00f3n al otro lado del Atl\u00e1ntico. Wallbox lanz\u00f3 el Pulsar Plus, el primer cargador de VE dom\u00e9stico de la empresa para Norteam\u00e9rica. Los conductores europeos de VE ya hab\u00edan visto una actualizaci\u00f3n del cargador en 2019, que ahora ofrece una gesti\u00f3n inteligente de la carga entre el coche y el hogar como <a href=\"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/2019\/05\/14\/wallbox-lanza-los-nuevos-pulsar-y-commander\/\">inform\u00f3<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Esta capacidad V2G tambi\u00e9n se est\u00e1 probando en el Reino Unido. Wallbox se asoci\u00f3 con la iniciativa Electric Nation en oto\u00f1o del a\u00f1o pasado. La prueba utiliza su <a href=\"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/2020\/01\/07\/wallbox-muestra-el-cargador-bidireccional\/\">Quasar<\/a> cargador bidireccional con una capacidad de carga m\u00e1xima de 7,4 kW, inusualmente baja para una conexi\u00f3n de carga de corriente continua. La prueba marc\u00f3 el estreno oficial del cargador, que tambi\u00e9n cuenta con capacidades V2H (Vehicle to Home).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>El proveedor espa\u00f1ol de soluciones de recarga Wallbox cerr\u00f3 una ronda de financiaci\u00f3n de 33 millones de euros liderada por los nuevos inversores Cathay Innovation y Wind Ventures. Inversores existentes como Iberdrola y Seaya<\/p>","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":148482,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9933],"tags":[5755,22368,10174,7548,4676,22374,1580,17534,22369],"class_list":["post-148566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy-infrastructure","tag-ac","tag-cathay-innovation","tag-charging-stations","tag-dc","tag-iberdrola","tag-seaya-ventures","tag-wallbox","tag-wallbox-chargers","tag-wind-ventures"],"acf":{"inhalt_teil2":"<p>This is just the private segment. When announcing the new financing, Wallbox also mentioned expanding their public charging solutions following the acquisition of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/2020\/09\/09\/wallbox-buys-emobility-platform-electromaps\/\">Electromaps<\/a>. The digital platform includes charging stations in Southern Europe and enables around 100,000 users to access and pay at 120,000 charging points by cell phone.<\/p>\n<p>The company said a &#8220;significant portion of the funds&#8221; will go to secure greater market share globally and foster product development. The latter is where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/2020\/10\/12\/wallbox-presents-first-fast-charging-station-for-cities\/\">Supernova<\/a> comes in, a fast public charger. It features a charging speed of up to 65 kW with more powerful devices to follow later. Wallbox expects production to start in the second quarter of 2021 and sales will begin first in Europe, followed by North America and other countries.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Wallbox is rapidly gaining momentum, and this investment will only help us expedite the global transition towards e-mobility,&#8221; said Wallbox\u2019s Chief Financial Officer Jordi Lainz.<\/p>\n<p>The investment is both Cathay Innovation\u2019s and Wind Ventures\u2019 first in an EV charging business and will form part of their existing portfolio of smart energy solution startups.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cathaycapital.com\/press-room\/wallbox-completes-e33-million-financing-round-to-support-global-growth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cathaycapital.com<\/a><\/p>\n"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}