Prodrive Technologies

Prodrive Technologies, headquartered in Son near Eindhoven, designs and builds power electronics and power systems for industry. Over more than thirty years it has grown into a company of more than 2,200 people, with over 500 in research and engineering and offices in Boston, Suzhou and Tokyo.

The energy transition runs through its product range. Prodrive makes rectifiers that power hydrogen electrolysers, the machines that turn green electricity into green hydrogen. In November 2025 it opened a 4-megawatt test facility in Son for its Hydra rectifiers, which are built from 250-kilowatt modules that can be combined to feed electrolysers of up to 24 megawatts. Through its own company Peblar, Prodrive also makes chargers for electric cars in Son.

The link with NEON runs through people. Korneel Wijnands, who led NEON's work package on medium-voltage fast charging, combines his professorship in electrical power conversion at Eindhoven University of Technology with product development of industrial power systems at Prodrive Technologies. That double role brought an industrial view to the work package's central question: how to connect megawatt chargers directly to the medium-voltage grid, smaller, cheaper and more efficient than with today's transformers. Prodrive took part in this work package as a partner, next to charger maker Heliox, the grid operators and the shipbuilders.