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EV CHARGING SOLUTIONS

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Industries \ Heavy Commercial

Electrifying

your heavy BEV fleet

In Australia, a heavy vehicle is defined under the Heavy Vehicle National Law as a vehicle with gross or trailer mass over 4.5 tonnes, regulated by the National Heavy Vehicle Regulator. New Zealand applies the same threshold — covering rigid trucks, prime movers and tippers used for freight, waste and construction.

As C&I businesses look to electrify their heavy truck fleets, three problems are holding the transition back: grid connection and route charging that demand coordination most operators aren’t set up for, an operational burden most fleets never wanted to take on, and a shift into industrial-scale energy management that the LCV playbook doesn’t prepare them for. None of these are vehicle problems alone. Each represents a gap that energy providers, charging specialists and infrastructure companies are positioned to close. Electrification also opens a door diesel never could: the battery needed to manage depot charging demand can also become a revenue-generating grid asset in its own right.

HEAVY BEV Challenges & Opportunities

COORDINATING GRID CAPACITY
at the depot and on the road
YOU'RE NOT A CHARGE POINT OPERATOR
and you shouldn't have to be
AGGREGATE OVERNIGHT LOADS
leads to industrial-scale energy
A NEW OPPORTUNITY
turning the depot battery into a grid asset
COORDINATING GRID CAPACITY
Depot charging infrastructure isn't something an operator can install and switch on. Grid connection upgrades take real coordination — network operators, transformer and substation capacity, connection agreements — with timelines stretching from months to years, especially outside major metro grids where local infrastructure is already stretched. For freight routes, the problem compounds: there's no coordinated network of charging stops away from the depot, so longer routes have nowhere to charge along the way.

What’s needed

C&I operators of trucks need depot and route charging coordinated as one project — grid upgrades and en-route charging stops planned together, not solved piecemeal.

YOU'RE NOT A CHARGE POINT OPERATOR
A trucking business runs its trucks, not electrical infrastructure — whether that's freight, waste collection or construction haulage. But depot charging comes with an ongoing operational load most operators have never carried: uptime monitoring, fault response and software management across their own charging fleet, day in and day out. Without support, operators either take this on themselves — a costly distraction — or leave it unmanaged, risking the depot reliability their fleet depends on.

What’s needed

C&I operators of trucks need someone else to own charging infrastructure uptime, monitoring and fault response — so their team can stay focused on the business.

AGGREGATE OVERNIGHT LOADS
 

What’s needed

C&I operators of trucks need HV network agreements, metering and energy procurement handled by specialists — not managed in-house by a fleet management team.

A NEW OPPORTUNITY
Managing peak charging demand means most electrified truck depots need a large on-site battery anyway, to smooth out the load spikes that come from multiple trucks charging together. That battery doesn't have to sit idle once the trucks are charged and back on the road.
Between charging windows, the same battery can supply grid services or offset peak network tariffs — turning infrastructure the depot needs regardless into a second source of value. A diesel depot never had an asset like this to draw on.

What’s needed

C&I operators of trucks can turn the depot battery required for charging into a revenue-generating grid asset — earning value during hours the fleet isn't charging.

CUSTOM DESIGN SOLUTIONS

Powering your heavy BEV fleet

The infographic here shows an example of how a heavy commercial fleet might be designed as either a single system or elements that can be phased in over time.

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ASSET LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT

Jump Energy’s Consultation & Design services manage your transition into an industrial-scale HV energy consumer — negotiating network agreements, sizing HV metering, and structuring tariffs for depot-scale charging. Our Energy-as-a-Service team then delivers ongoing distributed energy resource (DER) management, orchestrating your site’s load and assets in coordination with the grid.
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BATTERY STORAGE

Jump Energy designs and manages your depot battery to do double duty — buffering truck charging demand and participating in grid services or tariff optimisation when capacity is free, turning EV charging infrastructure you need into an additional, ongoing revenue stream for the business.
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CHARGING

Our EV Charging solutions are built for reliable depot operation, and our Energy-as-a-Service model takes ongoing ownership of it — monitoring uptime, responding to faults and managing charging software day to day. Your team never has to become charge point operators; we keep the EV chargers running, so you can keep your truck fleet moving.
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FLEET

Jump Energy’s Consultation & Design services model your fleet’s real duty cycle — mapping actual loads, routes and towing needs against LCV electrification requirements. We match the right EV charging setup to your business, so electric LCV range and payload work for your business from day one.

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Meridian Energy

Jump Energy was engaged by Meridian Energy to deliver public EV rapid charging stations, powered by a DC microgrid system. As part of Meridian Energy’s Zero charging network, Jump Energy activated four sites and provides ongoing asset lifecycle management.

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IKEA

Jump Energy was selected via competitive tender to deliver a turnkey EV charging solution for IKEA’s first two New Zealand locations. The solution included public customer AC charging, and DC charging for light commercial vehicles at store and warehouse locations.

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Waste Management NZ

Jump Energy was engaged by Waste Management NZ to deliver a fit-for-purpose, high-capacity DC charging solution to support Volvo FM prime mover operations from the Kate Valley Landfill.

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