Tritium makes DC fast chargers for EVs. DC-America designs, makes, and installs EV charging stations. And now, the 2 corporations are going to team as much as create a US-wide, federally funded EV charging network.
October 28 update: We asked Tritium’s reps what the rollout plan and timescale is for this coast-to-coast EV charging network, and people folks helpfully connected us with Nathan Bowen, the president of DC-America. Nathan explained this morning via email:
With reference to the Tritium Partnership, DC-America has executed a serious investment to facilitate our ability to offer DC fast charging stations. We have pre-purchased a substantial stocking order of Tritium chargers that we anticipate receiving in the primary half of 2023.
We’re constructing a single point connection, NEVI-compliant station to alleviate the vast majority of issues that surround higher-capacity DCFC stations. By eliminating the vast majority of underground conduits and wiring, we’re speeding up deployments by greatly reducing the onsite construction in addition to reducing installation costs.
Tritium and DC-America’s big US charging network
Specifically, DC-America’s charging station infrastructure will probably be equipped with Tritium’s fast chargers.
The rollout plan is, based on the 2 corporations, expected to be compliant with federal Buy America standards and eligible for all 52 state and territories as a part of the US Department of Transportation’s National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Formula Program, which is able to provide funding to states to strategically deploy EV charging stations. This system is allotted $1 billion a 12 months from 2022 for five years.
In keeping with the US Joint Office of Energy and Transportation, this investment will help construct EV chargers across greater than 75,000 miles of highway nationwide.
At the top of August, Tritium opened the doors of its recent EV charger manufacturing facility in Lebanon, Tennessee – its first production footprint within the US. It’s expected to provide as much as 30,000 DC fast chargers per 12 months at peak capability.
DC-America currently offers its system equipped with Tritium’s modular and scalable 150kW DC fast charger, the PKM150 (pictured directly above).
Tritium CEO Jane Hunter said:
We’re thrilled to partner with an industry innovator on a charging system that’s proudly made in America. We sit up for seeing DC-America stations equipped with Tritium chargers servicing drivers across the country.
In early September, Tritium announced that it raised as much as $135 million in recent funding to assist it work through DC fast charger backorders while boosting production ability.
Electrek’s Take
Great news. Yet one more example that the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law is spurring the expansion of electrification and domestic manufacturing.
The more EV chargers there are, the higher. Now … when are they going to reach? Being capable of constructing as much as 30,000 DCFC annually is kind of a number.
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