Q-Park expands partnership with software provider Greenflux

Parking facility operator Q-Park is expanding its partnership with Greenflux and its locations in Germany and Ireland. Previously, 1,700 charging stations at Q-Park sites in the Netherlands have already been successfully upgraded to Greenflux’s software system. As a result, Q-Park will now manage its parking lot charging stations directly at additional locations, no longer relying on third parties for controlling and billing charging transactions.

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The European parking operator Q-Park is expanding its partnership with the Dutch software provider Greenflux and reorganizing the operation of its charging infrastructure in Germany and Ireland. Over 700 charging stations in Germany and around 120 in Ireland will switch to Greenflux’s Charge Point Management System (CPMS) – a centralized software for controlling and billing charging sessions.

For Q-Park, this means moving away from the previous “CPO-as-a-Service” model: instead of handing over the entire operation, including pricing and value creation, to external service providers, Q-Park will take on the operator role itself. Greenflux’s software serves as a technical tool in the background, while Q-Park retains full commercial and operational control over prices, billing, and energy management.

The key factors for switching to this system were, in addition to open interfaces for external payment providers, functions for smart charging (to dynamically allocate electricity) as well as automated refunds. Q-Park has already deployed the platform at around 1,700 charging stations in its home market of the Netherlands. This expansion reflects the ambition of major infrastructure operators to make charging a core part of their own parking operations rather than leaving it to external service providers.

The transition places high demands on technical reliability. Greenflux cites a system availability of 99.8 percent from previous migrations of over 35,000 charging points. For electric vehicle owners, what changes most is the underlying process: through so-called managed roaming, access via the familiar charging cards and apps of major mobility providers, with which customers have their charging contracts, remains seamless.