“There’s kind of this critical grid problem and so we think that we can accelerate towards an EV future and this is a unique way that we can do it,” said [cofounder/CEO Bryan] Frist in an interview. “The mobile charger can charge and then it can multiplex all the spots. So we tell people, it can electrify every spot in your parking lot.”
Each mobile supercharger can service between five and seven vehicles according to Frist. With perhaps two superchargers operating on a fleet operator’s lot, one would service a vehicle while the other supercharger would replenish its own charge off the grid and they would alternate, according to Frist. “What we say is we can do that same charge instead of three and a half hours, we can do in 10 minutes, and we can move around your lot,” Frist says. “You don’t have to put in all the infrastructure. You don’t have to build it out. You just contract with us.”
The company plans to begin with a “handful” of mobile superchargers in [GM’s] BrightDrop vans but expects to ramp up production and begin commercializing more widely during the first quarter of 2025… The mobile superchargers will complement Yoshi Mobility’s existing offering of high-capacity mobile generators that sit on a fleet operator’s lot putting out as much as a megawatt of power and can service a larger number of vehicles than the mobile units.
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