https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffkart/2018/10/24/charging-an-electric-vehicle-with-sparkcharge-as-easy-as-ordering-a-pizza/#106856fa4c65 Charging An Electric Vehicle With SparkCharge: As Easy As Ordering A Pizza 2018-10-24 Jeff Kart
[image https://thumbor.forbes.com/thumbor/960x0/https%3A%2F%2Fblogs-images.forbes.com%2Fjeffkart%2Ffiles%2F2018%2F10%2Fsparkchargeblrd-1200x800.jpg SparkCharge electric vehicle buffalo One of the SparkCharge units in action.SparkCharge video https://youtu.be/KNqQpgwZN00 SparkCharge How To Short ] A startup called SparkCharge recently took home the top, $1 million prize at a Buffalo, New York, competition called 43North. Founder and CEO Joshua Aviv says the company's device is intended to relieve range anxiety, an ailment suffered by electric vehicle drivers who worry they'll be stranded if their charge runs out. SparkCharge's technology consists of a backpack-sized case of lithium ion batteries. You fire up an app to have the case delivered to a location, it charges the car quickly, and you're rolling again, at a cost of about $20 for 100 miles of juice. "It's super small. It's super lightweight and it's modular," Aviv explained. "It's meant to be connectable. Think of it as LEGO blocks: You can connect as many blocks as you want to get the desired range." Aviv, 26, of Syracuse, N.Y., says SparkCharge plans to use its winnings to hire about 90 staff as it expands into a relationship with a roadside assistance company, and manufacture the devices out of Buffalo. SparkCharge hopes to ship 1,000 units by the end of 2019. On-demand delivery is the way electric vehicles should be charged, rather than relying on stations scattered here and there, the CEO says. Of course, SparkCharge is starting small. But ideally, the goal is to partner with taxi services like Uber or Lyft and roadside assistance companies. We'll have this really good landscape, so EV owners can have a charge delivered to them wherever or whenever they want ... It's the way that the infrastructure should be. It's the way that life is going. If you want a pizza, you open up your phone, you hit a button and it's delivered. We thought, 'Why can't we do that for electric vehicles?' [image] An employee places a cooked pizza into a delivery box inside a Domino's. Photographer: Jason Alden/Bloomberg Aviv says he too suffers from range anxiety. He drives a Nissan Leaf [EV] and ... recalls extra hours spent on road trips because he to had to stop frequently for charging sessions that took hours. SparkCharge can reportedly provide 1 mile of charge in 60 seconds, at a rate that's 14 times faster than a typical home-based unit. SparkCharge, with its recent $1 million infusion, hopes to go live in early 2019. It's taking pilot signups on its website. People who sign up will be invited to download the app and receive a "substantial, first-come package," Aviv says. The company is working out of Greentown Labs [ https://www.greentownlabs.com/ ], a clean tech co-working space in Boston. [© forbes.com] + https://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/basf_to_open_electric_vehicle_battery_plant_in_finland/10469256 BASF to open electric vehicle battery plant in Finland 22.10.2018 When the facility fully starts up in late 2020, the firm said it will be able to supply batteries required for some 300,000 fully-electric vehicles per year. The firm said ... https://img.yle.fi/uutiset/talous/article9707144.ece/ALTERNATES/w580/volvo%20s%C3%A4hk%C3%B6auto%20Volvo%20XC90%20T8%20Twin%20Engine%20ladattava%20hybridi.jpg ... http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-10/22/c_137550919.htm BASF chooses Finnish town for electric vehicle battery materials ... 2018-10-22 BERLIN, Oct. 22 (Xinhua) -- BASF AG will launch a new venture to produce raw materials for electric vehicle batteries in the Finnish town of Harjavalta, the ... ... https://www.manufacturingglobal.com/technology/basf-and-nornickel-begins-strategic-cooperation-electric-vehicle-battery-venture BASF and Nornickel begins strategic cooperation in electric vehicle battery venture Oct 22, 2018 The Germany-based chemical company, BASF, and Russian mining firm, Norilsk Nickel (Nornickel), have begun a strategic cooperation to help deal with an ... For EVLN EV-newswire posts use: http://evdl.org/archive/ {brucedp.neocities.org} -- Sent from: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/ _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
