Coulomb To Install 1,600 California EV Chargers in $12-Million Program
By John O'Dell July 8, 2010
EV charging network supplier Coulomb Technologies said that it has received a $3.4 million grant from the California Energy Commission to help pay for installation of hundreds of electric vehicle charging stations - private and public - in three key regions of California.
San Francisco already has installed a few EV chargers near City Hall.
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The funds, along with a $5 million federal grant and about $3,5 million in corporate contributions will be used to pay for 1,600 chargers to be located in the Los Angeles, Sacramento and San Francisco/San Jose areas of the state.
A Coulomb spokeswoman said the exact distribution, by type of charger and by city, hasn't yet been decided and that the company has a "request a station" function on the project's Web site to try to identify places the free chargers should be located.
People who'd like to have a home charger or who have a suggestion for location of a public charger can use the function to log their requests, she said.
The $12 million California project is part of a larger, $37 million ChargePoint America program announced earlier. Through it, Coulomb will install 5,000 chargers in the three California regions plus Bellevue and Redmond, Wash.; Austin, Texas; Detroit; New York City; Washington, D.C.; and Orlando, Fla.
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