Swedish supervisory authorities halt the sale of the company’s electric car chargers in Sweden. It may also have consequences in Norway.
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Easee received the message about the sales ban from the Swedish Electrical Safety Authority on Tuesday afternoon, writes Dagens Næringsliv.
It happens after the Swedish authorities have asked questions about Easee’s chargers, and the company has previously been warned of a possible sales ban.
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The regulatory authority here at home, Nkom, states that in principle common EEA rules apply, and further writes that a sales ban in an EEA country will, as a general rule, entail the same in all EEA countries.
– We have just received the information from the Swedish Safety Agency, and we need some time to see what it means as a whole, says department director of Nkom John-Eivind Velure in a press release.
– Nkom is concerned that the products sold in Norway are safe, and we will follow the case in Sweden closely. At the same time, we are considering what specific measures are necessary to take in this case, he says.
Easee: The chargers are safe
Founder and general manager of Easee, Jonas Helmikstøl, says that the chargers are safe and that the company strongly disagrees with the decision. Easee will now go to court to stop the Swedish sales ban.
The company is now working, among other things, on a temporary injunction and an appeal through its lawyers in Sweden, and says that the message “came like a bolt from the blue”.
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Helmikstøl fears customers will start to doubt the product’s safety.
– We have never been more confident about product safety. We have one of the best and most secure products in the world. We have now received confirmation from recognized institutes in Germany, he tells E24.
Helmikstøl also points out that Easee has installed over 600,000 devices from which the company receives ongoing data.
– If there were any problems with product safety, we would have known about it.
– Hoping for support
– Does this have any consequences for the business in Norway?
– We have a dialogue with Nkom, and we hope to get support from them. It seems that they are taking a slightly different approach, and it is not necessarily the case that because something happens in Sweden, it is automatic that it will be introduced in the rest of Europe, says Helmikstøl.
The background for the decision to ban sales is that the Swedish Electricity Authority believed there were deficiencies in earth fault protection.
The Swedish Safety Agency has also investigated other manufacturers.
The Norwegian charging company from Stavanger has grown rapidly in recent years, with a turnover in the billions range.
