About Airvall
A dead battery should not decide your day.
Airvall is building a network of shared power banks in the Netherlands. Not with anonymous pillars on the street, but through local businesses: the venues people already walk into. They become the place where the city gets its power.
Our mission
Making charging on the move as ordinary as a tap with running water: always close by, at a price you know in advance.
That is why there is one rate, why every station is also a drop-off point, and why you need no subscription to use it. Someone who needs a power bank once a year matters to us as much as the daily user.
Our vision
In a few years every Dutch city will have a terminal within walking distance — and buying a power bank will make as little sense as buying a bike for one ride.
One shared power bank replaces dozens sitting in drawers going stale. That is not only easier, it is a great deal less electronics.
How we think about it
Four choices we make deliberately.
Not every choice is the most profitable in the short term. We think they are the right ones over a longer horizon.
One flat rate, no running meter
Billing by the half hour earns more, but it makes people watch their watch instead of their phone. €4 a day is something anyone can understand — and €30 after 72 hours is not a penalty, it is what the device costs.
Through the venue, not beside it
We would rather place ten terminals with businesses that benefit than a hundred pillars on the pavement. The location shares in the revenue, because without that spot there is no network.
Repair before replace
Power banks are tested on every return. Anything broken comes out and gets repaired where possible; the rest goes back through the official route. Casings move on to their next life.
No account needed to start
Starting contactless at the terminal works without an app and without a profile. We do not want to collect data we do not need in order to lend out a power bank.
Where we are now
We build the network location by location.
Every terminal is installed, tested and monitored from our own system: we see live whether a station is online, how many power banks are in it and when it needs maintenance. That same map — without the technical detail — is on this site too.
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