Shell Recharge is discontinuing its Shell Sky software in third-party commercial EV chargers in the US and Canada.
Shell Sky is cloud-based EV charger management software, often called a CPMS or charging station management system (CSMS). Sky was originally created by software startup Greenlots, which Shell acquired in 2019. Greenlots was eventually rebranded to Shell Recharge.
Shell Sky is hardware agnostic and uses OCPP, an open protocol for connecting and managing EV chargers, which means chargers using Shell Sky software can be migrated to other OCPP-compliant software providers either remotely or onsite.
Shell Recharge will service the third-party commercial fleet EV chargers until April 30, and after that, it will switch the software off, and it wants the Shell Recharge Solutions stickers removed from the chargers.
This is what happened with Enel X Way JuiceBox EV chargers when that company announced it was shutting down in October, but unlike Enel X Way, which gave only nine days’ warning, Shell is giving 90 days’ notice.
The company says it will focus on investing in its Shell-owned public charging network, which consists of more than 70,000 chargers globally. In an email obtained by Electrek from Shell to a “valued customer,” the spokesperson wrote that the company is “focusing our investments where we have a competitive advantage.”
Its email goes on to say that “Shell has MOUs with three [charge point management system] CPMS providers and would be happy to make introductions to these companies if interested.” ChargeLab, which recently completed the migration of over 1,400 JuiceBox EV chargers, announced support for Shell Recharge customers looking for a new charging management system earlier in December. Pulse Energy is also offering migration support for neighborhood EV charging stations with Shell Sky software.
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