The Dallas airport is testing out EV charging bots that roll around like suitcases

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Mobile EV charging stations may soon juice up travelers’ parked cars while they’re flying high.

ZiGGY mobile EV charger connected to vehicle in parking lot.

ZiGGY will show off its skills this summer at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. EV SAFE CHARGE/YOUTUBE

One of the world’s busiest airports will soon showcase an innovative, undeniably cute way to speed up travelers’ entrances and exits. First announced earlier this month, Dallas Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) is partnering with EV Safe Charge to demonstrate how the company’s mobile electric vehicle charging station, ZiGGY, could be deployed in public spaces to economically and conveniently power up consumers’ parked cars. Read more

How EV Safe Charge won Barcelona Innovation Challenge for Flexible Charging Solution

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Barcelona de Serveis Municipals (B:SM), the main services company owned by Barcelona City Council, today announced that EV Safe Charge, a U.S.-based provider of level-2 and DC fast-charging and temporary electric vehicle (EV) charging solutions, won the call made by the 2030 Agenda Commissioner of the Barcelona City Council and BSM through the InnovAcció 2030 programme to promote the development of a flexible EV charging point.

The aim of the project is to tackle various challenges in the expansion of electromobility in the city, such as the concentration of recharge points in parking areas and infrastructure maintenance.

B:SM chose EV Safe Charge as winner due to the company’s recently launched demonstration prototype of ZiGGY, a mobile, robotic EV charger that would be easily accessible to many vehicles within a car park. This win marks the first time that a city is piloting a mobile robotic EV charging solution anywhere in the world. Read more

Resolts els dos reptes per impulsar el disseny de punts de recàrrega elèctrica mòbils i de baix cost

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BSM ha resolt els processos d’innovació que permetran iniciar el desenvolupament de punts de recàrrega flexibles i de baix cost per afavorir el desenvolupament de l’electromobilitat a la ciutat. Els dos projectes es desprenen d’un concurs públic realitzat en el marc del programa InnovAcció 2030, una iniciativa conjunta del Comissionat de l’Agenda 2030 de l’Ajuntament de Barcelona i BSM que vol trobar solucions innovadores que permetin avançar en l’Agenda 2030 i la consecució dels Objectius de Desenvolupament Sostenible.

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Robot Charger is On the Move

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As the founder of EV Safe Charge, Caradoc Ehrenhalt is a big believer in electric vehicles.
So much so that he started the downtown-based company to provide electric charging stations, first in residential and then in commercial buildings.

And now he is pivoting again and getting into mobile charging stations with Ziggy, a battery on wheels.
After all, one of the barriers to mass electric vehicle adoption is charging anxiety, or the worry that a vehicle would run out of power before reaching a charging station.

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ZIGGY: The EV charging robot that rolls to you

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EV Safe Charge founder and CEO Caradoc Ehrenhalt introduces the robotics firm’s mobile solution to ‘charge anxiety’ on ‘The Claman Countdown.’

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This Car Charger Bot Will Also Hold Your Spot Meet Ziggy, the EV charging robot

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The vision of Ziggy, a mobile EV charger designed to tool around parking lots like a plug-wielding valet, raises an important question: Do robots take tips? Read more

EV Charging Stations Go Mobile

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Startup EV Safe Charge is addressing rcharging anxiety with a robotic charging station. ZiGGY charging station from EV Safe Charge Read more

Charge-bot could turn any parking spot into an EV charging space

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Finding space for fixed EV chargers can be difficult, so one startup aims to make chargers mobile.

EV Safe Charge recently previewed a mobile charging robot called Ziggy that drivers will be able to summon using a smartphone app or their car’s infotainment system. The robot finds the car, plugs in, and then returns to a staging area to be recharged from the grid, a solar array, or energy storage batteries.

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Meet ZiGGY, a mobile EV charging robot with a kiosk-style ad platform

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The quest to provide convenient, scalable and cost-effective EV charging, and make a profit by doing so, has spawned many interesting technological solutions over the years. The latest audacious proposition to cross our desk comes from EV Safe Charge, which has developed a mobile EV charging robot called ZiGGY. Read more

Best Way to Charge an Electric Car May Soon Be a Robot Named Ziggy

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The battery-on-wheels robot can autonomously navigate parking areas to bring EV charging straight to whatever spot you’ve parked in. It’s slated for release by late 2023 or early 2024.

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