Electric vehicles – The Hottest EV Spot in Town Now Available

“Part of the EV owner experience is planning where you will charge and, planning the miles you will travel,” said Richard Lowenthal, founder and CTO at Coulomb. “If you are certain you can charge at your destination, it effectively doubles the range of your vehicle since you don’t need to cover the round trip with just one charge. It also means that a 100-mile vehicle can cover a 100-mile diameter metropolitan area, like the San Francisco or Los Angeles regions. I need to know in advance that a station and EV parking place is waiting and available for me at the mall, or the theater or at a meeting location. This feature is especially important to station owners who want to ensure that an EV driver will spend time at their business.”

Reservations as easy as 1, 2, 3

Drivers search for reservable charging stations at http://www.mychargepoint.net.
Drivers can easily make a reservation once signed into their ChargePoint Driver Account.
Upon making a reservation, the driver is billed the station owner-determined fee.
By using their ChargePass™ card, drivers have unlimited charging station access privileges during their reserved charging session time.
Reservations may be cancelled by the driver up to 24 hours prior to the start of the reservation.

“Our stations are one of few pubic stations in downtown Washington DC, and they are getting busier as more EVs appear on the road,” said Robert Reisteter of Hines, the property manager of Columbia Square. “Having the capability to make any of our stations reservable, provides us with a new unique feature to attract EV drivers to our parking garage.”

Through the ChargePoint Network, station owners can provide a distinctive new service, attract new customers and generate new revenue from EV charging. The ChargePoint Network is:

The largest and longest operating EV charging services network in the world.
The network with the most active EV drivers in the world.
The only charging network with mobile apps providing EV drivers real-time station status and charging notifications.
The world’s first fully open EV charging network supporting charging stations from multiple manufacturers.
The world’s first PCI-compliant charging network, enabling flexible driver payment and billing options for recovering energy costs.

The ChargePoint Network gives all EV drivers easy-to-use unique services including: real-time status and location of unoccupied charging stations, tracking and reporting greenhouse gas and gasoline savings, and charging status notification, all by SMS, email or smart phone (iPhone and Blackberry) applications. Coulomb’s ChargePoint Network is open to all drivers of plug-in vehicles and all manufacturers of electric vehicle charging stations.
About Coulomb Technologies, Inc.

Coulomb Technologies is the leader in electric vehicle charging systems and application services, with the ChargePoint Network now operating in 14 countries, and Network Operations Centers in the U.S., London, and Hong Kong. The ChargePoint Network first went live in January of 2009. Coulomb provides a vehicle-charging infrastructure, with an open system driver network: the ChargePoint Network provides multiple web-based portals for Hosts, Fleet Managers, Drivers, and Utilities, and ChargePoint Networked Charging Stations ranging in capability from 120 Volt to 240 Volt AC charging and up to 500 Volt DC charging. 

www.mychargepoint.net/request-station.php