Shell Recharge exits the US EV charger software market [Video]

Shell Recharge is discontinuing its Shell Sky software in third-party commercial EV chargers in the US and Canada.

Shell Sky is cloud-based EV charger management software, often called a CPMS or charging station management system (CSMS). Sky was originally created by software startup Greenlots, which Shell acquired in 2019. Greenlots was eventually rebranded to Shell Recharge.

Shell Sky is hardware agnostic and uses OCPP, an open protocol for connecting and managing EV chargers, which means chargers using Shell Sky software can be migrated to other OCPP-compliant software providers either remotely or onsite.

Shell Recharge will service the third-party commercial fleet EV chargers until April 30, and after that, it will switch the software off, and it wants the Shell Recharge Solutions stickers removed from the chargers.

This is what happened with Enel X Way JuiceBox EV chargers when that company announced it was shutting down in October, but unlike Enel X Way, which gave only nine days’ warning, …