charging, because of the challenges of getting access to
parking spots near power and the difficulties of negoti-
ating with homeowners’ associations that don’t want to
give preferential treatment to specific tenants. FreeWire
has received funding from BP Ventures and the Volvo
Te c h F u n d.
Event organizers at remote locations that need to ac-
commodate EVs on a short-term basis require portable
solutions that can be brought in on trucks and taken
away the same day. One company addressing this need
is EV Safe Charge, which is based in Los Angeles. The
company’s EV Charge Mobile stations can deliver up to
50 kW of DC power, and are not grid-connected. CEO
and founder Caradoc Ehrenhalt says the company is us-
ing diesel generators to provide the electricity, because
“battery-based solutions discharge too fast” and have
insufficient capacity for the volumes of energy needed
by EV Safe Charge’s customers. To make the use of its
products more sustainable, Ehrenhalt claims that EV
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Event organizers at remote
locations that need to
accommodate EVs on a
short-term basis require
portable solutions that can
be brought in on trucks and
taken away the same day.
Safe Charge offsets the greenhouse gas emissions by
planting trees.
EV Safe Charge rents equipment for short-term events
including festivals, sporting events and EV launch
events that last only a few days. The company first putImages courtesy of EV Safe Charge