ChargePoint Expands Electric Charging Stations

The company is set to launch its CT4000, which allows two electric cars to charge at the same time.

July 19, 2013

CAMPBELL, Calif. – ChargePoint wants to change the face of electrical charging stations — and expand the network of such places throughout the country, Slate.com reports. Right now, ChargePoint has around 12,000 electric chargers for public access across 14 countries. In the United States, the company installed around 70% of the public chargers.

ChargePoint is about to debut the CT4000, a new AC electric car charger with an LCD screen for ad streaming and the ability to hook up two cars at once. “Driving an EV is different from driving a gas car,” said Pat Romano, ChargePoint CEO. “With a gas car you drive around until the little yellow [gas] light comes on, then you find a gas station and fill up.”

Romano envisions a much different network of electric charging stations in every major city across the country, saying he doesn’t want to duplicate the nationwide system of 160,000 gasoline stations. He wants to shape an unique network that centers on retail parking lots and office building lots, where drivers could recharge while shopping or working.

ChargePoint is already testing that vision around San Francisco, with its more than 1,000 publicly accessible charging stations. Romano resides in that area and drives a hybrid car that he rarely fills up with gasoline anymore. With the proliferation of charging stations in his area, he “can leapfrog from electric lily pad to electric lily pad without thinking.”

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