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FPT Industrial, the drive train provider to the ommercial vehicle maker IVECO has partenred with EV charging company Reefilla to use batteries from IVECO vehicles in Reefillas charging solutions. For FPT Industrial the partnership is part of a pilot project where the company is seeking to find solutions the batteries in the IVECO vehicles after they have been replaced.
The actual application is a mobile power pack which will be used for the charging of EVs in locations where charging from the grid is not available. The solutions share many similarities with the mobile charging units from Freewire in California which in 2015 was one of the first companies to use second life batteries in industrialised applications.