Coulomb Techologies Ships First ChargePoint EV Chargers to Australia and Poland
By Scott Doggett May 26, 2010
Coulomb Technologies, the closely held maker of publicly-accessible electric-vehicle charging stations, has shipped its first ChargePoint stations to Australia and Poland, marking the San Francisco Bay Area-based company's continued effort to capitalize on what many believe will be a rapidly expanding EV market domestically and abroad.
Coulomb distributor ChargePoint Australia on Tuesday unveiled Coulomb's first EV-charging station in Sydney, where city officials say 3,000 members of car-share companies such as GoGet will help accelerate the use of EVs, Coulomb said in a statement.
Earlier this month, Coulomb unveiled its first ChargePoint station in Warsaw, where Coulomb's Europe, Middle East and Africa distributor 365 Energy is working with local utility company Polenergia at building out an EV infrastructure, Coulomb said in a separate statement today.
Coulomb is looking to bank on what some analysts will be an explosion of battery-electric-, plug-in-hybrid electric- and extended-range plug-in electric-vehicle sales over the next few years.
Annual global hybrid-electric- and battery-electric-vehicle production will more than triple over the next six years, Boston-based research firm Strategy Analytics said in a study released in March.
As a result, EV-charging-system makers such as Coulomb will install about 4.7 million charge points for electric vehicles between from now to 2015, the clean-technology market intelligence firm Pike Research forecast Thursday.
Coulomb, which expects to boost its revenue tenfold this year to about $10 million, deployed about 600 charging stations in 2009 and expects to unveil thousands more this year.
Last month, Coulomb unveiled a ChargePoint station in Orange County's South Coast Plaza, the first U.S. shopping mall to include an electric-vehicle charging station for EVs and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles.
In March, the company installed what it said was the first group of electric-vehicle charging stations purchased by an apartment complex developer when it deployed three of its ChargePoint stations in Dallas's new 464-unit Belmont complex.
Danny King, Contributor
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