Driivz Turns One Depot Into Six

Driivz's new EMS lets depot operators charge six times more EVs at existing sites, no grid upgrade required

1 Apr 2026

Europe's charging bottleneck is not in the vehicles. It is in the ground beneath them. Depot operators seeking to electrify their fleets must often wait years for utility companies to expand grid connections, at costs running into the millions. The transition is, in a sense, being strangled by its own infrastructure.

Driivz, an Israeli charging software firm with operations across 35 countries, believes software can do what engineers are too slow to deliver. In March 2026 it launched an energy management system designed to wring far more charging capacity from whatever grid connection a depot already has. The system coordinates incoming grid power, on-site battery storage, and renewables simultaneously, redistributing available electricity across a site in real time. The company claims operators can support up to six times as many charging vehicles without physical grid expansion.

The arithmetic depends on intelligent scheduling. Vehicles with full batteries and distant departure times relinquish power to those that need it most. Charging loads shift away from peak pricing periods, drawing on stored reserves to reduce demand charges. Fleet managers, freed from manually juggling vehicles, set priorities by departure schedule and battery state. The system handles the rest.

There is a commercial wrinkle worth noting. Driivz says its platform lets depots participate in utility demand-response and frequency-regulation programs, selling stored energy back to the grid when prices or system stress are high. A depot ceases to be a cost centre and becomes, in the company's framing, a revenue-generating grid asset. That claim, while plausible in markets with mature balancing mechanisms, depends heavily on regulatory access and pricing structures that vary considerably across European jurisdictions.

The product launch follows Driivz's acquisition of Sparkion, a specialist in energy asset software. The company counts Shell, Recharge, and Mer among its European clients and manages more than 160,000 public chargers globally.

The broader context is unforgiving. EU mandates are tightening; grid queues are not shortening. If software genuinely can defer or displace costly infrastructure spending, it will find a ready market. Whether Driivz's sixfold multiplier holds across the messy, variable reality of commercial depot operations, rather than in optimised demonstrations, is the question European fleet managers will be quietly asking.