PORTLAND, Ore., May 7, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — OpConnect, LLC, a visionary leader in the electric vehicle charging station technology, announced today that their EV charging stations will accept the Wright Express fleet cards. “ This is important because authenticating electric vehicle charging stations with the Wright Express card is a mandatory requirement for Federal fleets,” said Mike Dixon, president of Go EV, OpConnect’s exclusive national distributor.  With this development, the OpConnect charging stations can now be more easily integrated into a large number of both public and private fleet vehicle operations. 

“We designed the OpConnect EV charging network to be open for a wide variety of access and payment methods and this is another application of that design.  Wright Express is one of the most widely accepted fleet cards so it was an obvious choice to partner with them for this development,” said Dexter Turner, OpConnect CEO. 

“Wright Express is excited about adding our card acceptance to the OpConnect charging network,” said David Maxsimic, executive vice president of Wright Express’ sales and marketing. “ Our government and commercial fleet card customers will expand their need for card acceptance at EV charging stations and other alternative fuel locations now and even more so in the future.”  According to Maxsimic, “Those locations that accept our cards now will win more of our customer business in the future.” 

About Go EV: Go EV is the exclusive US and Canadian distributor of the OpConnect Electric Vehicle Charging System.  Go EV sells, finances, integrates, owns and operates EV charging infrastructure and provides industry leading lead-time and product availability.  Go EV’s deep industry knowledge and ability to integrate a variety of disciplines and technologies helps customers solve their infrastructure deployment and management problems.  What can Go EV do for you? 

About Wright Express: Wright Express is a leading provider of value-based, business payment processing and information management solutions.  The Company’s fleet, corporate and prepaid payment solutions provide its more than 350,000 customers with unparalleled security and control across a wide spectrum of business sectors.  The Company’s operations include Wright Express Financial Services, Pacific Pride, Wright Express Prepaid Cards Australia and Wright Express Fuel Cards Australia.  Wright Express and its subsidiaries employ more than 900 associates in six countries.  For more information about Wright Express, please visit wrightexpress.com.