Curbside charging pioneer it’s electric has installed two chargers as part of a new pilot program in San Francisco. The deployment is the result of months of collaboration between it’s electric and various city agencies. Data evaluation and lessons learned from the pilot will inform recommendations to establish a more permanent curbside charging permitting process…. Read more »
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Canada Infrastructure Bank and Jolt to install 1,500 curbside charging stations
Jolt, an Australian EV charger manufacturer that offers drivers free, advertiser-supported charging, and the Canada Infrastructure Bank, a federal Crown Corporation of Canada that is charged with financially supporting revenue-generating infrastructure projects, have announced a C$194-million loan agreement that will support the expansion of Jolt’s charging network. The loan will pay for the installation of… Read more »
it’s electric to expand its curbside EV charging network to seven US cities
A consensus is emerging that curbside charging is the solution to the Dilemma of the Drivewayless Drivers, and startup it’s electric is zeroing in on this market. (Read the feature article in our July-September 2024 issue.) Now the company has announced seven cities for the first year of its nationwide rollout: Boston, Los Angeles, Jersey… Read more »
San Francisco’s curbside EV charging pilot program advances to a new phase
There’s a growing consensus that curbside charging is the solution to the challenge of drivers who have no option of installing chargers at their homes. San Francisco is evaluating curbside charging solutions from three EV charging providers, and Mayor London Breed recently announced the next phase of the program. San Francisco’s Curbside EV Charging Pilot… Read more »
Voltpost chooses AT&T to provide connectivity for curbside EV chargers in Michigan
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 »
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 »
