Coulomb Technologies Expands ChargePoint America Program with the Addition of Six New Cities
ChargePoint Network Expands into Baltimore, Tampa, Boston, Santa Barbara, Ventura, Santa Cruz; Free Home and Public Charging Stations for Electric Vehicles Available
Campbell, CA. April 13, 2011 – Coulomb Technologies today announced the expansion of its $37 million ChargePoint America program into six new US cities: Baltimore, Md., Tampa, Fla., Boston, Santa Barbara, Calif., Ventura, Calif. and Santa Cruz, Calif. Since Coulomb’s announcement of the ChargePoint America program on June 1st 2010, the company has awarded thousands of home and public charging stations for electric vehicles throughout the original nine regions of the program: Southern Michigan, New York City, Orlando, Fla., Washington DC, Sacramento, Calif., the San Jose/San Francisco Bay Area, Bellevue/Redmond, Wash., Los Angeles and Austin, Texas adding hundreds of new ChargePoint Network electric fueling destinations as new vehicles appear on US roadways. ChargePoint America continues to work closely with three leading automobile brands (Chevrolet, smart USA and Ford) to provide free home charging stations with the purchase of new EVs within the CPA regions.
“Our ChargePoint America program has seen tremendous success with new charging locations added to the ChargePoint Network every day,” said Pat Romano, president and CEO at Coulomb. “This expansion is intended to better serve the growing driver population in important EV transportation corridors, further reducing our dependence on foreign oil. This program is putting people to work with ChargePoint stations that are designed, built and installed here in the US. We would like to thank the Department of Energy and the Obama administration for their support in making the path to cleaner transportation a reality.”
Through the ChargePoint Network expansion, new EV drivers can access unique, easy-to-use services, including: real-time status and location of unoccupied charging stations, tracking and reporting greenhouse gas and gasoline savings, and charging status notification, all by SMS, email or smart phone (iPhone and Blackberry) applications. Coulomb’s ChargePoint Network is the largest network of charging stations in the world and is open to all drivers of plug-in vehicles and all manufacturers of electric vehicle charging stations.
The ChargePoint Network enables businesses to provide a distinctive new service, attract new customers and generate new revenues from EV charging. Charging station owners can set their own prices for charging as a function of time of day, and calendar date - much like a parking meter. Stations can also be configured to provide "free" access to EV drivers. Station owners can also:
- Promote their stations on the largest network, comprising thousands of EV drivers
- Recover energy costs with PCI compliant driver billing
- Track and report energy usage and savings for greenhouse gas and fuel
- Set multiple service plans for EV driver usage
- Create flexible billing options for their customers without a subscription via contactless credit cards (Visa, MasterCard, AMEX, and Discover)
- Access 24 X 7 station monitoring and driver support services
- Post custom advertising and greetings on the charging station display
About ChargePoint America
The $37 million ChargePoint America program is made possible by a $15M grant funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act through the Transportation Electrification Initiative administered by the Department of Energy. ChargePoint America will provide 4,600 public and home ChargePoint Networked Charging Stations, adding to the existing ChargePoint Network. Coulomb will work together with its distribution and industry partners to evaluate the demand from the respective geographic regions and allocate charging stations based on this and other factors. The ChargePoint America project will collect data characterizing vehicle use and charging patterns, Idaho National Labs will analyze the data. For more program information visit www.chargepointamerica.com.
About Coulomb Technologies, Inc.
Coulomb Technologies is the leader in electric vehicle charging systems and application services, with the ChargePoint Network now operating in 14 countries, and Network Operations Centers in the U.S., London, and Hong Kong. The ChargePoint Network first went live in January of 2009. Coulomb provides a vehicle-charging infrastructure, with an open system driver network: the ChargePoint Network provides multiple web-based portals for Hosts, Fleet Managers, Drivers, and Utilities, and ChargePoint Networked Charging Stations ranging in capability from 120 Volt to 240 Volt AC charging and up to 500 Volt DC charging. For more information, follow Coulomb on Twitter at twitter.com/coulombevi. To request a charging station in your area, visit www.mychargepoint.net/request-station.php. To download the ChargePoint iPhone App, click here.
