Hardware solutions
FPS works with fleets to integrate electric vans, trucks, transport refrigeration units, and buses into operations. Sometimes that requires hardware modifications.
Our experienced engineering teams have developed several innovative hardware solutions that can help make EVs a success in your fleet.
Reducing TRU depot emissions
Unlock transport refrigeration unit (TRU) fuel, cost, and emissions savings in hard to address sites with our TRU solutions.
TRUs can account for 10-15% of HGV fleet fuel usage. Up to 2/3 of this consumption is in depots where pull-downs and waiting take place. Using electricity instead of diesel reduces costs, emissions, and noise.
Although the technology has existed for decades, duty exemptions on red diesel and implementation challenges disincentivised take-up. Now, plugging in raises new challenges around power availability and quantifying the achievable savings.
Our TRU solutions fix that through remote usage monitoring and real time reporting via our Operate platform or real time electric load control via our TRU smart plugs.
Immediate results
Plugging in TRUs in achieves emissions savings without needing to modify your vehicles or change how they operate on the road. Similarly, our Operate platform integrates with both existing infrastructure and smart plugs.
Connecting your infrastructure
to Operate helps:
• Drivers understand
why they need to comply
with plugging in.
• Quantify the return on investment and support
the business case for implementation.
• Manage 3PL arrangements where suppliers use customers’ electricity.
Combining the platform with our TRU smart plugs allows you to overcome site power constraints, reducing build time and cost.
Wireless charging
We were one of the first companies in the UK to demonstrate high power wireless van charging. We have since deployed vehicles with fleets like Heriot Watt University, City of Edinburgh Council, and Waitrose.
We offer an end-to-end wireless charging capability that ranges from system specification and design, through to build and deployment onto vehicles and into depots.
Once the wireless charging equipment is in, we take care of driver training as well as maintenance and monitoring via our Operate platform.
Less space is required for
charger infrastructure.
Smaller battery packs
are needed.
Charging is simplified, so
vehicle downtime is reduced.
Future proof for autonomous
vehicles.
This charging solution is particularly suitable for last-mile
delivery fleets and where space in depots is limited.
“While highly utilised shared infrastructure and collaboration have great potential to reduce the costs of decarbonising road freight, there are complex scheduling and commercial trade-offs to be considered.”
“The modelling tools and approaches developed in our Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council funded research at the Centre, combined with the collaboration we’ve undertaken with FPS over the last two years will both be key to untangling these challenges and making sure this potential is realised.”
Professor Phil Greening, co-director of the Centre for Sustainable Road Freight, based at Heriot-Watt University
