New York City-headquartered Voltpost, which retrofits lampposts as Level 2 EV chargers, has partnered with AT&T to provide IoT connectivity to EV charging posts across Michigan, including the Metro Detroit area. Voltpost provides scalable curbside and parking lot charging infrastructure to public and private customers, including government entities, real estate developers, universities and parking facility… Read more »
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Beam Global receives first order for BeamSpot curbside EV chargers from Fortune 500 utility company
Beam Global sells an innovative portable solar-powered EV charger that fits in a parking space and can be set up in mere hours. Obvious applications for the EV ARC include off-grid and/or temporary charging needs, such as events of disaster relief (a few of these would have come in handy here in St. Pete, Florida… Read more »
No garage, no driveway, no problem: itselectric is bringing curbside EV charging to the US
itselectric establishes best practices for curbside EV chargers. Q&A with itselectric co-founder and CEO Nathan King. For the last few years, the EV industry has been agonizing over the problem of providing charging for urban drivers who depend on on-street parking, and have no possibility of installing chargers at their homes. EV journalists, including your… Read more »
Beam Global launches BeamSpot curbside EV charging product line
Curbside charging is emerging as the solution to the problem of charging EVs in dense urban neighborhoods. Curbside chargers are common in Europe, and a few companies are beginning to bring them to the US. Curbside charging represents a different application from the sort of public charging that we’re used to seeing in US parking… Read more »
itselectric secures $6.5 million in seed funding, will bring curbside charging to 7 US cities this year
Millions of drivers rely on on-street parking, and have no possibility of installing their own home charging stations. This situation, which your correspondent has dubbed the Plight of the Drivewayless, was long seen as a difficult dilemma, but nowadays a visit to Oslo or London makes the solution plain: plenty of on-street public chargers. Brooklyn-based… Read more »
NYC’s curbside EV chargers see 72% utilization rate
It’s becoming increasingly clear that the solution to the Plight of the Drivewayless (those poor souls who can’t install EV chargers at their homes) is simply lots of curbside chargers (see London and Oslo). New York City began installing public curbside EV charging stations in 2021 as part of a pilot that was originally expected… Read more »
Curbside charger maker Trojan Energy secures £26 million in investment
On-street EV charger manufacturer Trojan Energy, based in Aberdeen, Scotland, has secured £26 million in investments to facilitate its growth plans—£8 million from UK growth capital investor BGF and £18 million from the Scottish National Investment Bank. Trojan Energy, which manufactures its units in Aberdeen, currently has 600 on-street charge points in operation in the… Read more »
Is curbside charging the solution for the Plight of the Drivewayless?
The Plight of the Drivewayless—those poor souls who live in urban locales where they can’t charge their EVs at home—has emerged as a major drag on the speed of EV adoption. Solutions from the clever to the silly have been proposed, but if we look at dense cities where adoption is already well advanced, we’re… Read more »
itselectric to use SWTCH software to optimize its curbside charging network
itselectric, a Brooklyn-based curbside EV charging company, has partnered with SWTCH Energy, which specializes in EV charging solutions for multi-tenant buildings. SWTCH will provide software to itselectric for managing, maintaining and optimizing its charging network. “Today, the biggest barrier to deployment is the cost and complexity of connecting an EV charger directly to the utility’s… Read more »
Voltpost closes seed funding round for curbside EV charging platform
Installing public EV chargers in lampposts is an elegant solution to the problem of urban drivers who can’t install home charging—it minimizes sidewalk clutter and leverages existing electrical service. Voltpost, founded in 2021, is one of several companies targeting this market. The company recently successfully closed a seed funding round led by RWE Energy Transition… Read more »