AUMOVIO’s new VDO-branded DC charging hardware is built for depot and fleet-yard deployment
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AUMOVIO is adding AC and DC charging hardware to its commercial vehicle electrification business, moving beyond the vehicle-side components it already supplies to manufacturers. The company will show the new VDO-branded charging portfolio for the first time at IAA Transportation 2026 in Hanover, alongside fleet software that ties charging, energy and vehicle-availability data together. AUMOVIO frames the addition as extending its reach from the vehicle and the charge point through to the digital management of day-to-day fleet operations, positioning it across all three layers at once.
New VDO charging hardware targets fleet depots
The new portfolio covers AC and DC charging stations ranging from mobile units to high-power systems, sized for depots rather than single-vehicle driveways. AUMOVIO has named electric bus depots, logistics and distribution fleets, municipal fleets, industrial fleets, and company sites as target applications. The stations are built to sit inside a fleet operator’s wider energy setup, including photovoltaic systems and battery storage, rather than working as a standalone box. Georg Fässler, head of the Commercial and Special Vehicles segment, puts the logic plainly. Electrification is “primarily a matter of cost-effectiveness, scalability, and feasibility,” not vehicle range on its own.
A portfolio that already existed
That charging hardware is new. The vehicle-side portfolio it now sits alongside is not. AUMOVIO already supplies control units for vehicle-to-charger communication, energy and charging management software, and battery and onboard electrical system functions to commercial vehicle manufacturers, all of it production-proven, supporting both AC and DC charging processes, and facilitating integration into electric trucks, buses, and other commercial vehicles. AUMOVIO only became a standalone company in September 2025, spun out of Continental’s former Automotive group, and has spent the year since assembling a commercial vehicle portfolio piece by piece. Charging hardware is the piece that had been missing.
VDO Fleet Ecosystem links charging to daily operations
Georg Kliewer, head of special vehicles in the Commercial and Special Vehicles segment, frames the ecosystem’s job as making charging simple and reliable in practice, linking infrastructure, vehicle data, and partner services so operators can keep vehicles available. The VDO Fleet Ecosystem brings together data from vehicles, charging infrastructure, and partner applications into a single operational view, covering charging status, energy consumption, vehicle availability, and active charging sessions, plus, where partner solutions are integrated, the operational readiness of depot charging stations. That combination is what lets an operator see which vehicles are charged and ready before they’re needed, rather than checking charging status and fleet status separately. AUMOVIO says the aim is fewer vehicles sitting idle simply because nobody could see they were ready.
AUMOVIO groups this launch under electrification, one of four focus areas it has set for IAA Transportation 2026 alongside efficiency, software-defined vehicles, and autonomous driving, when the show runs in Hanover from September 14 to 20. AUMOVIO has not disclosed pricing, launch customers, or a commercial rollout date for the charging hardware. What’s confirmed is the shape of the offer. A company that used to stop at the vehicle’s edge now sells the charger next to it, and the software that watches both.
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