UPOWA – Epro EV car charger

(HBS NE Ltd) part of the Brickability PLC Group  – Trading as UPOWA sought a contract design partner to collaborate with them in the development of an innovative and disruptive EV charger complete solution, targeting the housing new build market,  with ease of installation and product robustness a key design feature.

We collaborated with them to deliver a full end to end  EV charger solution including electronics, mechanical industrial design, firmware, App,  cloud software – every Facet of developing an EV solution has been undertake in house including the managing of all areas of compliance and approvals testing ( OCPP 1.6 , OZEV CE UKCA RED )   – The product passed approvals on its first pass.

• First EV charger solution to ever integrate the T2 connector onto the PCB,
• Novel single PCB approach – (better MTBF and resilience with more efficient production)
• Novel Waygo electrical interconnection interface that means you do not ever open the full case – (First to market mounting plate , connection cover and WAYGO interface with unrivalled speed of install)
• Truly low friction for the house builder with no dilution of the experience of the home owner.
• Significantly reduced development friction and rapid iteration with all resources under one roof, to reach a launch product that went through full approvals on its first pass .

“I have been working with Newbury Innovation for a couple of years on the development of a brand new product to the market. Without an inhouse technical team we needed to partner with someone with extensive end to end experience in the UK. We worked with Newbury Innovation from concept creation all the way to full regulatory approvals. I instantly saw the value in using a specialist innovation house that had access to every discipline needed for the complex product from firmware, electronics, mechanical design, Apps and cloud development.

I have found Newbury Innovation extremely proactive throughout the entire project, bringing innovative differentiation solutions and they quickly became an invaluable extension of the team. On the back of the extensive in-house expertise at Newbury innovation we also utilized their supply chain experience to develop a full end to end solution of our product. Not only have they saved us valuable time in the approval proves with proactive pre compliance work meaning it passed official certification first time enabling us to bring the product to market.

I look forward to working with Newbury Innovation to further develop our product set and would not hesitate to expand our relationship with the team. “

John Southern – Head of Product and Strategy – HBS NE Limited t/a UPOWA.