Happy Earth Day!

We are proud to join in on the celebration by sharing our vision and progress toward accelerating the transition to clean, carbon-free transportation.

Since our founding in 2018, EVCS’ mission has always been to make public EV charging simpler, faster, more convenient, and more affordable. This mission has not changed as we continue striving to lower the total cost of EV ownership and lower the barrier to entry for customers considering going electric.

We are excited to share that to date, the EVCS network has delivered electricity to customer EVs equivalent to 17.1 million electric miles driven, 410,000 gallons of gas saved, over 45,000 trees planted, and over 8 million lbs. of CO2 prevented. With that many electric miles driven, you could drive around the world 686 times!

Much of this progress is a credit to the continued expansion of our West Coast network, where we most recently commissioned 12 locations across Washington State as part of the West Coast Electric Highway upgrades.

Our plan to double our network footprint by the end of the year remains unchanged as we aim to more than double our footprint to over 1,500 chargers and extend our services to 35 new cities along the West Coast. Recognizing the need to get you back on the road quickly, we will also be introducing our first wave of ultra-fast (150 kWh and 350 kWh) charging starting in Q3 of this year.

We are also making significant investments to enhance the reliability of our network. Starting in 2022, we placed orders surpassing 800 DC fast chargers with our partner Tritium, a leading supplier of advanced EV charging equipment assembled in the U.S. Earlier this year we kicked off a program to replace older, less reliable DC fast chargers with newer and faster Tritium equipment, improving uptime performance and charging success rate for EVCS customers. You can also expect to see the latest Tritium hardware deployed to over 35 new locations coming online across our West Coast network throughout 2023 and into 2024.

In addition to updating our equipment, we've also made significant technology investments, upgrading our ability to detect, diagnose, and remotely resolve charger performance issues in real time across our network. And we continue to build out our field technician team, enhancing our ability to both proactively identify and address potential issues and decrease our response time to customer reported issues. As always, please reach out to us for any support issue, either via our 24/7 phone support at 1-866-300-3827 or online at support.evcs.com.

This Earth Day, we reiterate our commitment not only to sustainability, but to continued network expansion and reliability. The goal is and will always be to provide simpler, faster, and more affordable EV charging for all. We are proud of the progress we have made thus far and continue to be excited about what’s to come.

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Happy Earth Day,
The EVCS Team

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2020: A Year in Review

Two thousand twenty has been a year of undeniable adversity, but also one of remarkable achievement. A year of firsts and hopefully a few lasts. A time of toil and tribulation, but also of triumph. For genuine success is partly defined by our ability to hurdle those implacable obstacles that make the result so noteworthy in the first place. Now, as the EVCS team looks back on this unusual year, we take stock of our unique achievements that made 2020 one for the books.

Electrification Progress in the Age of COVID

It’s pretty clear that vaccine or no, COVID will be here for a while, and with it the new normal of face masks, social distancing, telecommuting and (consequently) less road travel. While some might view this with trepidation, we see it as an opportunity. Since the earliest weeks of the pandemic, major metro areas like Los Angeles, Seattle and Chicago – those with large reductions in automobile traffic – immediately began seeing improvements in air quality, according to articles in the New York Times and Washington Post. More recent, an NPR story noted ozone pollution has decreased as much as 15% in many of these places. It seems an unintended consequence of the lockdown has been to accelerate the transition to responsible mobility by demonstrating its positive effects on the environment.

Commentary on Geotab’s 2020 EV Fleet Trends Article – Part II

Two weeks ago, we published part one of our commentary on Geotab’s in-depth article, “Electric Vehicle Trends 2020: Top 6 Factors Impacting Fleet Electrification” (https://www.geotab.com/white-paper/electric-vehicle-trends/). Again, the idea was to assess whether each of the trends were evolving as Geotab predicted and, if so, how EVCS was responding to them in the marketplace. Below are the final three trends referenced and our thoughts on each.

Commentary on Geotab’s 2020 EV Fleet Trends Article – Part I

At the beginning of this year, Geotab published a very interesting white paper titled “Electric Vehicle Trends 2020: Top 6 Factors Impacting Fleet Electrification.” (The piece can be found in its entirety here: https://www.geotab.com/white-paper/electric-vehicle-trends/) Now that we’re approaching the end of 2020, we thought it might be useful to go back through the assertions made in the paper to determine (1) whether the trends are evolving as Geotab predicted, and (2) if so, how EVCS is able to address those trends, including the targeting of customer pain points. Below are the first three trends referenced out of the six and our thoughts on each.

How a Biden Administration Helps EVCS

For EV enthusiasts generally and EVCS specifically, the election results are cause for great optimism. Joe Biden has shown himself to be a true friend to the electric mobility industry, so we thought we’d outline a few ways a Biden presidency will likely benefit our company, our mission and our customers.