Sustainability Report 2025

Enabling sustainable e-mobility

FY2025 - fourth annual report 10 chapters 73 countries of operation June 2026
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Part 05 of 10

External Stakeholders as Climate Enablers

No company decarbonizes alone. Customers, investors, suppliers, regulators, and civil society collectively shape the incentives, standards, and accountability mechanisms that turn climate ambition into measurable progress.

Among the most influential are large corporate buyers, whose procurement decisions cascade climate expectations across global supply chains. Environmental performance is increasingly assessed across themes such as greenhouse gas accounting, energy management, and sustainable procurement, with scores feeding directly into purchasing decisions by multinationals seeking to manage Scope 3 emissions.

This dynamic creates a powerful transmission mechanism: procurement expectations flow from final buyers through multiple tiers of suppliers, mobilizing small and mid-sized enterprises to act. In 2025, we saw a noticeable increase in ESG-related procurement requirements from our enterprise-level CPO partners.

Scaling social impact through our clients and their customers

AMPECO’s role in the energy transition is primarily enabling, not direct. We do not manufacture charge points, generate electricity, or operate most of the charging sessions that run through our platform. What we do is provide the digital infrastructure that allows charge point operators, fleet managers, energy utilities, and mobility providers to build, run, and grow charging networks with speed, reliability, and full commercial control. That multiplier model is the foundation of AMPECO’s primary impact pathway.

5M+
Public chargers worldwide – doubled since 2022 (IEA)
43%
Of global bus sales were electric in 2025 (BloombergNEF)
1.2M+
Public charging points in Europe, up ~20% in 2025
70+
Markets where AMPECO-backed networks operate

We view our clients and their customers not only as commercial stakeholders, but as climate enablers in their own right. AMPECO’s role is to lower the friction of electrification for them: easier to launch, easier to scale, easier to operate across borders, and easier to align charging with both user needs and wider system goals. When our customers expand reliable charging access, improve utilization, or open new market segments, the impact extends well beyond commercial growth – it widens the practical conditions for EV adoption.

Supporting diverse use cases and geographies

People charging electric vehicles along a tree-lined urban streetscape at golden hour

The electrification of transport is often discussed as a single transition. In practice, it is many transitions unfolding simultaneously, across markets with different grid constraints, policy frameworks, and levels of maturity. A fleet depot in Mexico, a utility-led network in the Baltics, a residential charging provider in the Nordics, and a roaming-enabled CPO operating across several EU countries are not solving the same problem. The platform must support local variation without compromising reliability or integrity.

AMPECO’s product architecture is built on that premise. The platform covers public, private, fleet, and residential charging using any OCPP-compliant charging station. Our multi-operator setup helps charging providers manage cross-border growth while preserving legal-entity separation, market-specific reporting, and local compliance. The outcome is not uniformity, but controlled flexibility: customers localise pricing, tax, access, and energy logic, while platform-level data integrity, uptime standards, and governance are preserved.

Public Private Fleet Residential Roaming

Sustainable revenue models and platform enablement

Commercial EV charging points outside a glass office building at dusk

A durable charging market requires more than deployed chargers. It requires business models that make reliable operation, customer trust, and energy-aware optimization financially viable over time. AMPECO’s commercial model is structurally aligned with this: our growth is tied to the growth and operating success of our customers. The white-label, API-driven, hardware-agnostic approach gives operators genuine business ownership rather than locking them into a closed ecosystem.

Several platform capabilities support this outcome-oriented model: flexible tariffs by customer type, time of day, duration, or kWh; subscription plans that improve predictability; utilities bundling charging with broader electricity services; and fleets managing reimbursement across home, depot, and public charging. This is also why AMPECO works through an ecosystem model – the AMPECO Marketplace gives customers access to pre-vetted specialist partners, such as our Eco-Movement integration for publishing station data to leading navigation platforms.

Equitable pricing and access through product design

As EV charging matures from an early-adopter service into essential infrastructure, affordability and usability become sustainability questions in their own right. Access is shaped by whether drivers can find a charger, understand the price before they plug in, pay without unnecessary barriers, and choose tariffs that reflect their real usage patterns. The European Commission’s AFIR makes clear that public charging must support price transparency and ad hoc access without unnecessary friction.

This flexibility matters for equity because different users face different constraints. Drivers with home charging can shift demand to cheaper off-peak hours; apartment residents and urban drivers frequently cannot. Equity does not mean a single tariff for everyone – it means reducing avoidable barriers and enabling fairer, more transparent charging experiences across diverse use cases. That is part of the social legitimacy of the transition itself.

A driver charging an electric vehicle at a public charge point

Product spotlight: carbon credits

One of the more important shifts in the EV charging market is the emergence of carbon-credit and clean-fuel-credit revenues as a complementary business case for charging operators. These schemes remain highly market-specific:

Active and emerging credit pathways
  • THG quotaGermany
  • LCFSCalifornia
  • Clean Fuel RegulationsCanada
  • ERE programNetherlands
  • RTFOUnited Kingdom

The platform does not issue credits, set market rules, or substitute for third-party verification. What it does is help make charging networks credit-ready by design: confirming market eligibility, locking down meter-level data provenance, maintaining a clear source of truth for delivered kWh, and preserving reproducible, auditable reporting. Where customers pursue credit monetisation, AMPECO works with specialist partners in environmental commodity trading, such as STX Group and Envolv. Where the rules allow, better data integrity translates into new climate-aligned revenue streams; where they do not yet, the same data discipline still improves reporting quality and long-term readiness.

Product spotlight: flexible tariffs

Pricing is one of the clearest points where sustainability, resilience, and user experience converge. A static tariff can recover costs. A flexible tariff can do considerably more: shift demand away from peak periods, reflect lower-carbon charging windows, improve charger utilization, and create more relevant offers for users with different needs. Operators can price by kWh, duration, or time of day; create tariff groups for different customer types; and offer recurring subscription plans. Through the AMPECO Marketplace, the Octopus Energy integration lets operators and drivers optimize charging costs using real-time electricity rates.

The sustainability case is strongest when tariff design aligns with system conditions: charging during periods of lower demand and higher renewable generation helps operators avoid costly grid upgrades while offering drivers a more cost-effective service. Transparency remains essential throughout: a flexible tariff only builds trust if the price logic is understandable before the session begins.