We are launching the Volt Time One Business: our 22 kW commercial charger built around the rules that take effect this year. ISO 15118-20 hardware on board, NFC for AFIR, MID-certified billing, a 10-year 4G SIM in the box, and grid-protection ready for bidirectional charging when your fleet and your installation are ready for it.

This is the charger we wanted to ship the day AFIR landed.

Why now: AFIR stopped being a maybe

The EU's Alternative Fuels Infrastructure Regulation (AFIR) is no longer a future obligation. From 8 January 2026 every newly installed or renovated publicly accessible AC charging point in the EU has to support EN ISO 15118-2. From 1 January 2027 the same applies for ISO 15118-20, and not just on public chargers: private Mode 3 chargers are in scope too.

For installers and fleet owners that means two things at once: the chargers you put on the wall today need to be communication-ready for Plug & Charge, and the ones you put on the wall in the next 12 months need to be ready for bidirectional power transfer. One Business is built around both deadlines.

AFIR is an EU regulation, so it applies the same way in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, France and the rest of the bloc. National rollouts (like the Dutch NEa registration for ERE) sit on top of it.

What One Business actually is

Two screws on the wall, one snap-on cover, front-facing lever terminals. The hardware is the boring part, and that's the point.

Up to 22 kW three-phase AC, with cable, socket, or shutter socket variants
MID Class B energy meter with an externally readable display, what employer reimbursement and public billing schemes actually require
NFC reader built in, for the AFIR-mandated ad-hoc payment flow, with classic Mifare RFID still working for daily use
10-year 4G LTE SIM included, RJ45 daisy-chain and RS485 on board
TT, TN and IT grids supported, cable feed from below or through the back
36-month factory warranty, tested from -30 °C to +55 °C

Everything is managed from Plugchoice. So load balancing, dynamic tariffs, solar balancing, billing exports for the employer and reporting for the verifier all live in one place, even when the customer's Wi-Fi is down.

V2G-ready, with anti-islanding done properly

This is the part that gets glossed over in most product announcements. So we want to be precise.

What "V2G-ready" means here

The One Business ships with ISO 15118-20 hardware. ISO 15118-20 is the communication standard published in April 2022 that adds Bidirectional Power Transfer (BPT), Plug & Charge with TLS 1.3 mutual authentication, and richer scheduling than the older 15118-2.

We say "V2G-ready" rather than "V2G-certified" on purpose. Bidirectional charging at the wallbox needs three things to line up: the vehicle has to support BPT over CCS, the inverter topology has to permit reverse flow safely, and the grid operator has to allow the connection under the local generator-connection rules. The hardware on our side is ready today; the rest will roll in vehicle-by-vehicle and country-by-country over the next two to three years.

Why anti-islanding matters

When an EV pushes power back into a building, the wallbox effectively becomes a small generator on the grid. If the utility cuts power upstream, for maintenance, after a storm, or because a substation tripped, anything still pushing energy onto those wires is a hazard. A lineworker expects a dead cable.

Anti-islanding is the protection that prevents this. In plain terms: when the grid drops, the export stops, fast. The standards behind this are well understood: IEEE 1547 and UL 1741 in North America, EN 50549-1 for low-voltage generators across the EU, plus the country-specific addenda (NEN-EN 50549-1 in the Netherlands, VDE-AR-N 4105 in Germany).

How One Business is set up for it

For AC bidirectional charging, the actual inverter sits inside the EV, not in the wallbox. That is the part of the chain that has to detect grid loss and cease energizing the line within the time windows the local code requires. The wallbox's job is two-fold:

Communicate the right state. ISO 15118-20 includes the messages that tell the EV what the grid is doing and when to stop exporting. Without that signaling layer, anti-islanding has to fall back to passive detection only.
Provide a hardware backstop. A protective contactor that opens on grid loss, independent of the vehicle's own protections, so the EVSE itself can disconnect even if the negotiation goes wrong.

One Business has both. The 15118-20 stack is on the controller, and the contactor and isolation hardware are sized for bidirectional flow rather than the one-way path you find on AC-only chargers from a generation ago.

If you are an installer doing a V2G pilot in 2026 or 2027: confirm with the local DSO which generator-connection form applies before you energize. The wallbox can be ready, the EV can be ready, and you can still need a separate notification to the grid operator before exporting kWh. Plugchoice will hold off on bidirectional flows until the partner enables it.

Plug & Charge, the way it should have worked from day one

ISO 15118-20 mandates encrypted communication with TLS 1.3 and mutual certificate authentication between vehicle and charger. In practice that gives you Plug & Charge: the driver plugs the cable in, the EV identifies itself with a public-key certificate, the session authenticates and starts. No app, no card, no QR code.

For shared fleet depots, lease cars, and parking, this removes the single biggest support ticket category we see today: "the card didn't work, can you reset it?" When Plug & Charge is properly provisioned, there is no card.

NFC stays on board for everyone the AFIR regulation cares about: visitors, ad-hoc payment, the engineer who turns up once a year. Both flows live side by side.

Built for installers, not just for spec sheets

We design for the people who put these on the wall in the rain.

Two M5 screws and a snap-on cover, no fishing for hidden hex keys
Lever terminals, all on the front face, so you don't have to dismount the unit to re-terminate
Cable feed from below, through the back, or from the side
Default supports TT, TN and IT, no separate SKU for IT-grid markets
A reconfigure flow in the installer app that doesn't require unlocking through the web portal

Time-to-first-session on a typical install is around 15 minutes including the Plugchoice handshake. We measured it at our partners.

What this means for our partners

If you sell, install, or operate Volt Time chargers, three things change:

Your AFIR story is now in stock. You can quote One Business today as the AFIR-compliant option for AC parking and commercial deployments without caveats.
Your V2G pipeline doesn't get stranded. Customers who want bidirectional in 18 months don't need a different charger; they need a software unlock and a DSO conversation.
Your billing and reimbursement flows are easier. MID Class B with the external display is what tax authorities and employers want to see; the data is already in Plugchoice.

Quotes and partner pricing are open from today. Read the full product page for the spec sheet, or request a quote and we'll connect you to the nearest installer.

This is a launch post, not a regulatory filing. The standards landscape is still moving, especially around national grid-connection rules for V2G, so anything we say here is accurate as of April 2026 and we will update it when the rules update.

Introducing Volt Time One Business: V2G-ready, AFIR-compliant, made in Europe