ChargePoint
Coulomb Technologies (CT) is an electric vehicle infrastructure company, based in Campbell, CA. Coulomb Technologies was founded in 2007 by Richard Lowenthal and Praveen Mandal.
It has announced its expansion into Europe, the Middle East and Africa with the opening of Coulomb’s European headquarters represented by 365 Energy Group[1], a venture of Estag Capital AG[2], in Berlin, Germany.[3] Coulomb Technologies' ChargePoint public charging stations are already in Australia.
CT offers ChargePoint(R) Networked Charging Stations. Also CT ChargePoint Network includes public charging stations, a consumer subscription plan and utility grid management technology for electric utility companies to smooth electrical demands on the grid.[4]
Partnerships
Ford Motor Co. will partner with Coulomb Technologies to provide nearly 5,000 free in-home charging stations for some of the automaker's first electric vehicle customers, under the Ford Blue Oval ChargePoint Program. [5]
Coulomb has announced partnerships with GridPoint and Aker Wade for Level III Fast Charging stations.
Employees
Founded by Richard Lowenthal, CEO, Parveen K Mandal, President, Harjinder Bhade, VP of Engineering Software, and Dave Baxter, VP Engineering Hardware. Greg Podshadley is VP Operations, Scott Saffian SR VP of Worldwide Sales, Bret Sewell, Executive Vice President, Tom Tormey, VP of Product Management, Scott Williams, VP of Business Development.
Board of Directors: Daniel H. Ahn, Mark Leschly, Richard Lowenthall, Praveen Mandal
Board Observers: Gerd Goette, Tom Whiteaker
Technical Advisory Board: Owen Brown, Roger Craig, Jorge del Calvo, Dr. Lyle Dennis, Martin Eberhard, Carl Guardino, Felix Kramer, Joseph DiNucci, Oscar Rodriguez
Charging stations
In January of 2009, the company's first charging stations were deployed in downtown San Jose that drivers can access through a prepaid plan. The company is working with entities in Las Vegas Nevada, New York and Florida to do something similar there [6].
The first ChargePoint charging stations are installed and available for charging in downtown San Jose.[7]. Since its first charging station installation, Coulomb charging stations have been in more than 27 US states, Canada and Europe.
1,800 planned 240-volt charge stations being built through the ChargePoint America project. Sponsored by Coulomb Technologies, the $37 million project is backed by a $15 million DOE grant, provided through the Recovery Act. ChargePoint America is expected to provide 4,600 networked charging stations to homes and public locations by October 2011, adding to the existing ChargePoint Network. The ChargePoint America project will collect data on vehicle use and charging patterns, which will be analyzed by Purdue University and DOE's Idaho National Laboratory. Coulomb announced on 2010-06-16 that Orlando, Florida, was the first to install a ChargePoint networked charging station under the program. [8]
Australia
There are also two public roadside charging stations in Sydney, Australia.[9]
Awards
Edmunds.com has selected battery-charging infrastructure developers Coulomb Technologies and Better Place as recipients of its first annual Green Car Breakthrough Award. [10]
See also
References
- ^ http://www.365-energy.com
- ^ http://www.estag.de
- ^ http://www.coulombtech.com/press_releases/release_20090323.php
- ^ http://www.calcars.org/calcars-news/976.html
- ^ http://www.automotive-fleet.com/News/Story/2010/06/Ford-Coulomb-to-Provide-EV-Charging-Stations.aspx
- ^ http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081022/AUTO01/810220348/1148/&source=nletter-business
- ^ http://www.mychargepoint.net/
- ^ http://apps1.eere.energy.gov/news/news_detail.cfm/news_id=16115
- ^ http://www.chargepoint.net.au/index.php/device/devicelocation.html
- ^ http://blogs.edmunds.com/greencaradvisor/2010/04/green-car-breakthrough-awards-go-to-ev-charger-pioneers-coulomb-better-place.html
External links
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