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Fast Charging. Everywhere.

South Africa's next-gen battery-backed fast-charging network. We go where you stop, not where the substations are.

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The station

How a battery beats a weak grid.

Most stops can spare 10 kW. A fast charger needs 120. So every station carries a 272 kWh SolarMD battery that fills slowly from the grid and charges your car at full speed, outage or not.

How the station works

Grid connection

from

10 kW

SolarMD battery

Lithium iron phosphate

272 kWh

The SAEV Charge station: a SolarMD battery cabinet with a two-bay DC fast charger

Battery to car in a single DC-to-DC stage.

2 × CCS2

Two bays, charging at once

120 kW+

Out vs in

Grid in, car out

12×

More power out than the grid puts in.

No grid upgrade.

Three parking bays and 10 kW of spare capacity. No utility queue.

The grid goes down. We don't.

272 kWh on board keeps both bays live through power outages.

The app

Find it. See the price. Tap. Charge.

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  • Live availability

  • Transparent pricing

  • Pair any NFC/RFID tag once and tap to charge

  • Prepaid SAEV Coin wallet that tops up with Apple Pay or Google Pay

  • Live session tracking with live notifications keeping you in the loop

  • Support that can see your session and fix it, any hour, without a phone call

  • The SAEV Charge app home screen: the nearest station, a live session at 70% and the SAEV Coins wallet
  • The app map: SolarMD Head Office with its CCS2 and Type 2 connectors, their availability and the Start charging button
  • A live session in the app: 70% at 59.1 kW, 31 minutes remaining, the energy delivered and the session cost
  • The app account screen: the SAEV Coins wallet, top-up options, transaction history and a paired tag

The network

The routes first. Then the cities.

100 stations along the N1, N2, N3, N4 and N7, then Gauteng, Cape Town and Durban. The first are being built now.

Follow the rollout
N1N2N3N4N7GautengCape TownDurbanDurbanSolarMD Head Office, Richmond Park, Cape Town · LiveDie Veldskoen Padstal, N1, De Doorns · LiveRIVO Quarters, Paarl · Under construction
  • Phase 1 route
  • City fill-in
  • Live · SolarMD Head Office, Richmond Park, Cape Town
  • Live · Die Veldskoen Padstal, N1, De Doorns
  • Under construction · RIVO Quarters, Paarl

Own the site? We want it.

Host a station

Why SAEV

The full stack. One company.

The station, the software behind it, the servers it talks to, the app in your hand, the billing and the support. All designed, built and run by SAEV Charge. When something goes wrong, there is one team responsible and it's us.

About SAEV

The SAEV stack, top to bottom: servers, platform, app and billing, battery, station.

  1. Servers

    Self-hosted in South Africa, on SolarMD storage.

  2. Platform

    Our own OCPP charging platform. 1.6J and 2.0.1.

  3. App and billing

    iOS and Android. Tap to charge. Apple Pay and Google Pay.

  4. Battery

    SolarMD 272 kWh. Built in South Africa.

  5. Station

    Our DC-to-DC design. 120 kW+. Two CCS2 bays.