• With a focus on serving the market for high-quality optimized charging infrastructure, Paragon Mobility has developed a sustainable business model for a highly flexible, high-intensity, fast charging infrastructure in France
• Paragon Mobility has acquired its first ChargePost EV chargers from ADS-TEC Energy, one of the global leaders in battery-buffered fast charging systems
• ChargePost features charging up to 300 kW even over weak grid connections and delivers additional revenue opportunities with grid services, energy recovery, and digital advertising. 

NÜRTINGEN, Germany / Oct 22, 2024 / Business Wire / ADS-TEC Energy (NASDAQ: ADSE), a global leader in battery-buffered fast charging systems, today announced that it has signed a partnership with Paragon Mobility in France. More than 206,000 new EVs have been registered in France since the beginning of 2024, an important factor in the business growth of Paragon Mobility, making France one of the key markets for EVs in Europe.

Headquartered in the technology park of Sophia Antipolis, France, Paragon Mobility delivers a new class of energy optimization infrastructure with EV charging as a key service offering. In addition to designing, developing and deploying since 2021 its own line-up of battery-buffered modular containerized fast charging solutions named “Pods”, the company is now expanding its offering with ADS-TEC Energy’s ChargePost.

Paragon Mobility is deploying ChargePost because of its industry-leading features. Up to two vehicles can be quickly charged at the same time. It supports up to 300 kW or 150 kW when charging two vehicles simultaneously. ChargePost can also include two large 75-inch LED displays for digital advertising to generate new revenue streams.

Paragon Mobility can use renewable or locally-generated electricity to charge the ChargePost battery. Its 201 kWh battery storage unit supports bidirectional use to feed energy back into the grid when required. It can also boost or stabilize weak grid connections. Several ChargePost systems can be networked to form a virtual power plant, scaling storage capacity and marketing options. With this approach, electricity is stored when it is cheap or abundant for use when it is scarce or expensive.

ADS-TEC Energy's solutions and services give Paragon the flexibility to support more than car charging. Paragon Mobility already uses ChargePost for charging electric buses. Other customers are using ChargeBox and ChargePost to charge trucks.

Paragon Mobility has the goal of transforming EV charging infrastructure to save its customers time and money while offering a highly flexible and available charging service. It also aims to foster customer enthusiasm and acceptance by delivering peace of mind and impressive charging times, in a young and sometimes skeptical market.

As it gears up to contribute to the scaling of the energy transition in the French mobility sector, Paragon Mobility has already garnered the attention of top-tier clients and industrial partners and won prestigious awards. It has been featured on the SET100 list of the German Energy Agency DENA and World Energy Council of the most promising climate tech companies in 2023; its CEO and Co-founder Jean Lemaire was named Best Charging and Energy Distribution Infrastructure CEO (Europe) by EU Business News Magazine. The company recently announced it is teaming up with ex-F1 driver and former Formula E World Champion Sebastien Buemi.

“With Paragon Mobility, we have a strong and competent partner at our side who will implement exciting and inspiring projects with our products in France and elsewhere,” said Henrik Langwald, Senior Vice President Head of Sales at ADS-TEC Energy.

“Paragon Mobility defines itself by delivering highly optimized, flexible, high quality charging infrastructure even in the most constrained sites. With these first signature deployments with ADS -TEC Energy in France, combining super charging with battery storage in low grid connection sites and intensive applications, we have started to write down a remarkable page in energy transition,” said Jean Lemaire, CEO of Paragon Mobility

About ADS-TEC Energy

Based on more than ten years of experience with lithium-ion technologies, ADS-TEC Energy develops and produces battery storage solutions and fast charging systems including their energy management systems. Its battery-based fast-charging technology enables electric vehicles to charge ultra-fast even with weak power grids and is characterized by a very compact design. The company, based in Nürtingen, Baden-Württemberg, was nominated for the German Future Prize by the Federal President and was included in the "Circle of Excellence" in 2022. The high quality and functionality of the battery systems is due to a particularly high level of in-depth development and in-house production. With its advanced system platforms, ADS-TEC Energy is a valuable partner for car manufacturers, energy supply companies and charging station operators.

More information at: www.ads-tec-energy.com

About Paragon Mobility

Paragon Mobility ambitions to transform the energy, charging and grid infrastructure landscape. To this end we offer a modular, compact, mobile and highly flexible and effective energy management piece of infrastructure named the Energy Pod, which can fast charge multiple electric vehicles at the same time with a limited footprint on the grid.

The company was formed in 2019 and has been led by Jean Lemaire and a team combining 60+ years of experience in the deployment and financing at scale of energy transition infrastructure and is backed by private-equity investors. Today Paragon Mobility already delivers high quality energy management and electric vehicle charging services to large clients and in environments as diverse as industrial fleets, electric aviation, logistics, transports and motorsports and racetracks.

Paragon Mobility was selected in 2023 to feature on the SET100 list of the German Energy Agency DENA and World Energy Council, its solutions have been labelled by the Solar Impulse Foundation. Paragon Mobility is also part of the business acceleration program of Crédit Agricole.

More information at www.paragonmobility.com

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