Fryte Introduces Automated Reservation for Charging Points

Together with its partners Bosch Road Services and Hubject, the Munich startup FRYTE Mobility presented a significant milestone for electrified road freight transport at this year’s Intercharge Network Conference (icnc25): the first fully automated reservation process for a charging point for electric trucks according to the OCPI standard – directly from a route planning.

(Munich/Berlin) With the presented solution, FRYTE Mobility lays the foundation for a predictable and reliable electrification of logistics. While the charging infrastructure has primarily focused on passenger transport so far, road freight transport poses significantly higher demands: larger energy quantities, more powerful charging processes, and strict conditions due to time pressure, tight delivery windows, and legal driving times.

For fleet operators and transport companies, the ability to reserve charging processes in advance means that e-trucks can be reliably scheduled even in tightly timed schedules. At the same time, charging infrastructure operators – both in the public sector and for depot charging – benefit from better utilization management of their charging points. The reservation function thus not only has a positive impact on operational processes but also opens up new future topics such as “private” charging station sharing in depots to build individual charging networks.

Reservation functionality must be supported by all systems in the future

The introduction of reservation functions places high demands on integration and interoperability. In order for e-trucks to be reliably integrated into operations, tour and charging planning, transport management systems (TMS), energy management systems (EMS), and charge point management systems (CPMS) must work seamlessly together. A prerequisite for this is the dialogue capability between TMS and CPMS, with communication in the CPMS taking place via the new OCPI standard 2.3. For charging infrastructure operators, there is also the challenge of intelligently linking calendar management and energy management. Only through this close interplay can energy demand be precisely secured and the use of e-trucks sustainably scaled. The basis for this collaboration is FRYTE’s modular cloud ecosystem, which bundles central components such as calendar, route planning, communication, reservation, and monitoring – both for charging infrastructure operators (CPOs) and for fleet operators and logistics providers (EMPs). FRYTE is the first player to consistently implement this interoperability according to the OCPI standard.

In the reservation process demonstrated at icnc25, Hubject took on the role of the roaming hub, and Bosch Road Services acted as the booking service provider for CPOs, while FRYTE provided the integration module for connecting the TMS systems of EMPs. For the specific requirements of logistics, FRYTE was also able to draw on partnerships with JUNA and Fiege Logistics: Fiege Logistics took on the perspective of a private CPO as the operator of charging stations and depots, while JUNA contributed its practical knowledge as a full-service e-truck provider and expert in e-logistics.

Charging Station Reservation Solves Two Central Challenges

Maximilian Zähringer, CEO of FRYTE, explains: “The charging station reservation solves two central challenges. If implemented correctly, it creates operational security for fleet operators and, on the other hand, a secured and known utilization of the charging infrastructure for operators. Interoperability is crucial to enable automated booking directly from transport management.”

Hartmut Entrup, Director of Energy Solutions at FIEGE Logistics, confirms this assessment: “We are transforming all relevant Fiege logistics locations into energy ecosystems. Therefore, optimizing energy flows and costs is one of our most important tasks. Knowing when our trucks and those of subcontractors are charging at the locations is crucial. A digitized reservation process thus provides us with the relevant information for our optimization and gives our partners the assurance that they can recharge their e-trucks at our depots.”

Logical and Next Important Step

Thomas Ertel, CTO of JUNA Technologies, adds: “We are already working with FRYTE today on charging stop planning and POI data through direct interfaces. The direct reservation option from our systems via these interfaces is the next logical and important step.”

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