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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Top 10 Reasons Why California Needs EVCS

Everyone loves top 10 lists, right? After all, David Letterman made them a perennial staple of his popular late-night program for years until they eventually became one of the most anticipated segments of each episode. Not only were they hysterically funny, but they featured just enough truth that the viewer was able to make a connection with reality. Quite often, these lists were also centered around an important and topical subject. And what’s more topical right now than sustainable energy? Or protecting our environment? So, in the spirit of David Letterman, we thought we’d present the top 10 reasons why the state of California needs EVCS.

The Benefits of Working with CARB and CEC

The California Energy Commission (CEC) bills itself as a pioneer in “leading the state to a 100% clean energy future.” It recently celebrated its 45th birthday and will be launching a “Clean Energy Hall of Fame” by announcing on December 10th awards honoring groups that are successfully contributing to a carbon-neutral California.

California Mandates Progress on Electric Mobility

Last week, governor Gavin Newsom made major headlines when he announced through executive order that California will prohibit the sale of new gas-powered cars and trucks starting in 2035 – just 15 years away. Additional regulations will call for medium- and heavy-duty vehicles to be carbon-neutral by 2045. For those of us who have been decrying the slow transition from pollutant-emitting internal combustion engines to more efficient ones powered by zero-emission lithium-ion batteries, it was welcomed news.

Electrifying West Coast Travel

When we bought the Oregon and Washington State legs of the West Coast Electric Highway (WCEH) earlier this summer, our goal was to promote the idea of responsible mobility by providing a carbon-neutral infrastructure that allowed EV drivers greater freedom of range in their travels. We hoped this would be welcomed news during a time when so many other distractions were dominating the news cycle. But as the pandemic persisted and the effects of the lockdown continued to ravage local economies, we realized that our contiguous network of DC fast chargers might serve another equally noble if somewhat unintended purpose: to facilitate much-needed tourism activity at some of the Pacific Northwest’s most picturesque points of interest.