By Akash Sriram
(Reuters) – Google-backed EV infrastructure startup Gravity Mobility has opened the quickest charging answer in the US to the general public, because it seems to be to draw fleet prospects.
Main fleet operators may have entry to 24 of Gravity’s 500 kilowatt (kW) chargers in New York, Gravity stated on Monday. The units can cost at a fee of two,400 miles of vary per hour or 200 miles in 5 minutes.
The corporate has the capability to fabricate and deploy hundreds of chargers a yr and extra websites are already in improvement, aside from the primary in Midtown Manhattan, it stated.
“Should you take a look at what number of (Tesla) Superchargers are added per yr, we are able to add that many or extra to develop our community. There’s nothing blocking that,” Gravity’s CEO Moshe Cohen instructed Reuters.
Tesla has signed numerous agreements with Ford, Normal Motors and a slew of different automakers to permit automobiles throughout manufacturers to entry its more-than 15,000 robust charging community. Scaling to this degree could possibly be difficult.
Gravity plans to boost extra funds this yr to broaden its community of excessive pace chargers throughout the US.
“We are going to do extra fundraising, after all, our aim is to broaden nationally instantly, and so we’ve got fairly a little bit of curiosity,” CEO Cohen stated.
Gravity’s chargers are the dimensions of a carry-on suitcase, in contrast with massive stands deployed by automakers and different EV charging community operators.
Nevertheless, most electrical vehicles have a charging pace cap of 350 kW, with future fashions anticipated to have the ability to reap the benefits of quicker chargers. Late final yr, EV charger maker ChargePoint introduced its Categorical Plus Energy Hyperlink 2000 product, which is able to charging two automobiles concurrently at speeds of as much as 500 kW, whereas Tesla’s Superchargers have a restrict of 250 kW.
(Reporting by Akash Sriram in Bengaluru; Modifying by Mrigank Dhaniwala)
