Electric vehicle charging company to release electricity ‘trees’

One technology company is looking into how to solve the issue of electric vehicle charger infrastructure for all makes of cars.

Gravity Technologies is piloting what it calls Distributed Energy Access Points trees, which have various chargers as its “branches” that come on a hinged arm from above in order to keep the cables from cluttering the ground. These chargers are designed to be sleek enough to be installed on a sidewalk.

This is the same company behind the two dozen 500-kilowatt chargers in New York that have the ability to charge up to a range of 200 miles in five minutes. A typical level one charger can take anywhere between five hours to over 50 hours to charge a car from empty. The next option, a level two charger, can take anywhere between one and 10 hours.

Meanwhile, the Department of Transportation is struggling to provide chargers as it promotes EVs under Biden’s administration promises. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was recently on Face the Nation defending the administration for only building seven or eight charging stations over two years with $7.5 billion on hand.

“Now, in order to do a charger, it’s more than just plugging a small device into the ground,” Buttigieg told host Margaret Brennan, who laughed. “There’s utility work, and this is also really a new category of federal investment. But we’ve been working with each of the 50 states.”

“Seven or eight though?” Brennan said.

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“Again, by 2030, 500,000 chargers. And the very first handful of chargers are now already being physically built,” Buttigieg assured her.

Across the United States, consumers bought 352,390 plug-in vehicles during the first quarter. General Motors accounted for 20,000 of those car sales. Meanwhile, Ford accounted for 10,000 of those car sales. Toyota seems to dominate the market after having sold 50% of EVs purchased in March. Some 36.6% of total sales for its first quarter were made up of EV models, which was a 74% increase.