Quality Assurance

How do you ensure that every charger is of high quality and reliable? 

I think there are many things that lead to a robust, reliable product, and I want to note three things that I see really as key elements to make a robust and reliable product.

First of all is the team, the people. So we have really a committed group of people working for years and years in the EV domain and they also worked for years at Prodrive technologies for different industries like semi-con, medical, automotive, so they know what it is to make a reliable product.

Secondly, the concept. A lot is sketched within the concept and we really try to keep it as simple as possible. We have a very high level of integration, minimize the number of components as much as possible. To make it very concrete, we integrated the whole energy meter in our printed circuit board where our competitors using often like standard modules.

So I think that's the second thing that's really important to mention and the third one is validation. So we really see the charger as an extension of the vehicle.You expect every day that your vehicle starts and you can just drive away, you should also expect that your charger works. It will be very annoying if you stand up in the morning and your charger did not work and your battery is empty. So we extensively validated our products according to automotive standards.

So that means that we tested all different kinds of tests from lifetime tests to salt spray tests, climate chambers. We did a lot of tests, that's also applicable for components that are used in vehicles, and with that we guarantee that our product is reliable and robust.

What does quality control look like at Peblar?

At Peblar we produce our products at Prodrive Technologies. Prodrive Technologies started in 1993 and started production in 1999, and over the years Prodrive complied to different business norms.

So industry, semi-con, also medical and automotive and that also brings along all kind of quality measures that you need to have in place in your entire supply chain to be able to deliver according to those standards. So in that sense we have quite some quality controls in place and we're happy that we used automotive standards for our product.

How do you meet different customer requirements?

Yeah, at the moment we have two propositions, so we have a white label product and we have our Peblar product, really an off-the-shelf product, where for the white label product we can adjust it in a very fast timeline, a bit more towards the wishes of the customer.

So we can pre-commission our product, we can make custom covers, so we can really make as a customer wants. And for the Peblar it's a different type of business, it's really selling by the pallet and there it's a standardised product that the customer can also choose.

So in that sense I think we have all ingredients for the different customer wishes.

How are you ensuring the longevity of the chargers?

That all starts at the beginning of your development trajectory. So when we started with developing the Peblar products, we really took requirements into account and one of those requirements is about the longevity of our product.

During the design phase, you already have to make design decisions, do reliability engineering to make sure that when you validate the product, just before you launch the product, that you also prove that you comply to the requirements as set.

So in that sense, you really make sure, during the whole product development sequence, that you can comply with the challenging requirements as set.