About Us

Our history on the EV charging market

The roots of our company lies at the foundation of KB(m-service) company that was developing “trip-computers” for auto rallies more than twenty years ago. They used to produce control systems for sunflower oil production, polyethylene filament production control systems, and guaranteed power systems for mobile operators Nokia and Siemens.

The company’s EV ideas were realized over six years ago by an entrepreneur from Ukraine, who saw the future in electric cars. He arranged on-call EV charging. Due to the lack of electric vehicles on the market, he brought and imported a few from the USA. Then, he released them on the Ukranian market as Taxi cars.

To charge an electric car, the driver made a telephone call and informed the operator of the numbers of his car and the station. The operator remotely granted access to start and finish the charging.

This idea was picked up by a microchip engineer from the KB(m-service) company, who then developed the first controller that connected to a server through a SIM-card. This marked the beginning of the first fully automatic charging stations. Later, this engineering company became an engineering team in Auto-E.

Firstly, we bought around 200 DC stations with 40 kW of power on the Chinese market. Having inspected them thoroughly, we understood they would not have lasted a week. Besides, they were highly unsafe to use.

During these six years, we have fully reconstructed the Chinese stations with our own machinery and controllers and further reconstructed AC/DC power modules. This minimised the possibility of a breakdown to 5%. Nowadays, we offer help to all companies who have bought charging stations on the Chinese market and help them reconstruct them.

Our experience on the EV charging market

Over the six years since our foundation, we installed over 2,200 charging stations and sold over ten millions kW of electric energy in Ukraine only. Most of these stations was installed last year, when the market acknowledged the advantages of going green. As a result, the demand for charging stations increased drastically.

Our charging stations are presented in many countries all over the word under different brand names. For example, in the USA and Israel our stations are called “Blink”. In the UK, our stations are branded “Auto-E” and are released on the market by the London Engineers Company (LEC).

Over the last two years, LEC has been involved in the development and installation of the electric stations in Ukraine, Poland, and the UK. LEC contributed to the development with many valuable technological ideas. Today these ideas are an inherent part of the Auto-E innovations. For example, the Smart Grid control system, which prevents the power grid from overloading. The Smart Grid is released in the UK as “E-telemetry”, which allows it to conduct full testing for the connections of a charging point in the future. Besides, it enables to calculate the amount of power it will be able to consume. In some cases, E-telemetry could be built into a charging point for a real-time free power control (Smart Grid Control).

Current state and future plans in EV charging

We produce all our charging stations in-house. Besides, we do not use any third-party operating systems (Linux, Windows, or Android), unlike our competitors do. This means they do not hold complete control over their controllers, which is especially dangerous in case of base operating system errors. On the contrary, we develop our controllers from scratch, without any base operating system. This enables us to have access to the microprocessors’ systems inside the controller. We have developed a modem that holds constant connection with ten of our servers, hosted in different countries.

Currently, our controllers test the stations on all the parameters and report all the collected data to the servers. This cycle repeats every twenty seconds. To clarify, this way we ensure the maximum efficiency of our stations. Moreover, this also ensures safety for the people who use it.

We have developed our own DC-controllers CHAdeMO and CCS, which are currently being produced. We have built our own AC/DC modules (the main block of the supercharge station) as well. Today, we are developing our own electric tractors and start working over the DC/AC power modules that would allow installing solar panels on our charging stations.

At the same time, we are currently negotiating about new batteries purchase, and evaluating whether it is possible to use second-hand batteries from the old EV-vehicles to create city power banks to store unused energy from the night and give it out during the day.

At last, we are in progress developing of our charging ‘hub’ that would be able to get power directly from the power grid of 6,000V.

Current and anticipated geographic scope

Today, we are a company with six years of experience in how to model, install, control, support and map charging points.

We cover all of Ukraine with our charging points, having installed over 2200 of our stations. Our customers pay us back with their loyalty because we provide them with true 24/7 multilingual support. Our customers’ calls are answered by an operator within three to five minutes. We plan our UK support services to operate within a month.

Now we are rapidly expanding ourselves onto the world market. Our servers used to control our stations are located all over the EU, America, the UK, and Ukraine.

It’s been over two years since we installed our first charging stations in the USA, and over a year in Poland and Israel. Our customers were quick to notice the comfort and convenience of using seven-meter length cables the charging stations come with and the function of PLUG & GO, as well as the 24/7 technical support.

Station installations, performance, and usage

We have already installed over 2,200 charging points in Ukraine, of which over 700 were installed last year. We are ready to install more as the demand for electric cars goes into a rapid increase.

In our DC charging points, we install AC/DC 12.5 kW power modules developed in the Netherlands. They are extremely reliable and have a minimal breakdown rate. However, they require a specially designed cooling system and very frequent cleaning. So, we designed and developed our own power modules to be installed in both new and older stations in the mid-summer, 2020.

On average, each charging point supplies 150 kW per socket. Today, from our EV-charges we supply around 330,000kW per day.

Our key clients

Auto-E produces charging stations for both commercial and domestic use.

Furthermore, we are about to release the upgraded Superchargers onto the market.

In the UK, we are signing contracts with pubs, restaurants, cafes, and hotels as well as with parking lots and business-centres.

In Ukraine, in addition to these business fields, Auto-E is in partnership with the Ukranian National Police Forces, Ukrpochta, and Kharkov City Council. At the moment, we have installed over 200 of our stations for service near the Ukranian National Police Forces. Ukrpochta, having already bought a few electric vehicles from Auto-E, is about to buy another 200 stations. Around the same amount was ordered by the Kharkov City Council to modernize the city. To clarify, three stations had already been installed in the biggest parks of the city. Currently, our company is negotiating with other big Ukranian City Councils.

Our installation pipeline

As a factory, we have our own engineers to perform the installations of all types of stations.