ChargePoint America programme shipping milestone

Coulomb Technologies has announced the completion of more than 2,400 shipments of its public and commercial charging stations for electric vehicles through its ChargePoint America programme. The company claims it has seen exceptional demand in all 10 regions of the programme and is finalising the installation of charging stations within these regions.
April 11, 2012 Read time: 1 min
4824 Coulomb Technologies has announced the completion of more than 2,400 shipments of its public and commercial charging stations for electric vehicles through its 4825 ChargePoint America programme. The company claims it has seen exceptional demand in all 10 regions of the programme and is finalising the installation of charging stations within these regions.

Coulomb’s ChargePoint America programme is providing approximately 4,500 charging stations to programme participants in ten regions in the United States: Austin/San Antonio, Texas, Boston, Los Angeles, New York, Orlando/Tampa, Sacramento, Calif., San Jose/San Francisco Bay Area, Redmond/Bellevue, Wash., Washington DC/Baltimore, Southern Michigan (including Grand Rapids, Lansing, Ann Arbor and Detroit). The programme is a strategic partnership between Coulomb and six leading automobile brands: 278 Ford, 1960 Chevrolet, 4826 Smart USA, 1731 BMW, 838 Nissan and 4827 Fisker Automotive.

The ChargePoint America programme is made possible by a US$15 million matching grant funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act through the Transportation Electrification Initiative administered by the Department of Energy.

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