A London-based software company that gives energy and mobility businesses live data from electric vehicles, chargers and home batteries.
Volteras is a London software company that connects the electric vehicle world to the energy world. It offers a data platform, with an API (a way for different software to talk to each other), that streams information from electric vehicles, chargers and devices such as home batteries. It gets the data through authorised links with car makers, and says it has more than 30 manufacturer partners, including Ford, Mercedes-Benz and the Volkswagen Group.
Its mission, as stated on a recruiting profile, is "to enable every innovation that leads to clean energy future". The company also says it wants to build the largest energy data platform, working with car makers and energy companies. It says the data is used only with the owner's consent, travels over encrypted channels and does not share customers' personal information.
Volteras is headquartered in the City of London, at 100 Bishopsgate, and staff can work from the office or remotely. Its chief executive and co-founder is Peter Wilson. Customers include fleet and charging managers, virtual power plants, insurers and energy suppliers, and named examples are Hitachi ZeroCarbon and Octopus Electric Vehicles. Consumer uses include smart charging, battery health reports for used electric vehicles and usage-based insurance. The company says it can stream data as often as every five seconds, with 99.9% uptime.
It is a small company: a recruiting profile lists one to 20 employees, so a lot of responsibility falls on each person. The company says it values work-life balance and a friendly environment. Its CEO previously co-founded a medical technology start-up, which shows how skills move between industries. It says its API covers millions of compatible devices and that customers can begin using the data within days, which are its own claims. The roles it advertises include data and AI, software engineering and sales, and a business like this also needs product, customer success and partnerships people. This culture description is the company's own.
Volteras shows that cars are becoming connected devices and that the people who understand data and energy will be in demand. If you like maths, software or sustainability, it is a useful example of a small UK team working with global car brands.
Website: www.volteras.com
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