Eastern Pennsylvania Alliance for Clean Transportation (EPACT) and Pittsburg Region Clean Cities (PRCC) Webinar
Summary
Tony Bandiero, Executive Director of the Eastern Pennsylvania Alliance for Clean Transportation (EPACT) and Rick Price, Executive Director of the Pittsburg Region Clean Cities (PRCC) are hosts of this Electric Vehicle Charging Webinar. They discuss the funding programs available at both the state and federal level for Electric Vehicle Charging and introduce their guest, Pioneer eMobility (formerly Pioneer Power Mobility).
Background on e-Boost Presenters:
Geo Murickan, President & CEO of Pioneer Power Mobility and his Director of Sales, Scott Bradley, and Director of Business & Stakeholder Development, Liana Fokensheneanu, describe how their e-Boost line of products can deliver an off-grid, mobile EV charging solution without the permitting or construction delay and make-ready expense.
The Energy Transition & EV Adoption
Grid resiliency and reliability is on the minds of millions of Americans as renewables and electric vehicles come into the picture to mitigate climate change. Extreme weather patterns from droughts that causes wild fires, extreme hot and cold temperatures that knock out the grid. It warms the ocean, creates rising sea levels, and flooding from storm surge events. A decentralized, decarbonized and sustainable power for the equitable distribution of EV charging is needed.
A Pioneer Power Solutions Company
e-Boost is a product of Pioneer Power Mobility which is a division of Pioneer Power Solutions. Pioneer is a publicly traded company and has been around for 30+ years.
e-Boost Product Overview
We chose propane for our EV charging solution because it is green today, and renewable propane + rDME is just becoming commercially available, which will help propane in the march to net-zero emissions. Our solutions are off-grid, mobile, provides back-up power wherever its needed, and real-time monitoring for automatic refueling and security. Our units are available on a skid, truck, trailer or Pod, and can provide power from 30kW up to 600kW.
EV Charging Infrastructure "Make-Ready"
Utilities are at the heart of EV charging infrastructure, and we think of ourselves as partners. Because the EV make-ready can take up to 2 years, depending on the grid modernization involved. There are also the EV charging infrastructure costs, involving site specific, electrical and civil work, design, engineering and permitting costs, installation and utility infrastructure upgrade costs in order to “make-ready” in addition to the chargers themselves that can make the investment quite high. e-Boost can defer some of the early CapEx to provide a temporary solution while the make-ready is happening, and thereby accelerate EV adoption, and later become a more permanent solution used for peak shaving and back-up during outages.
e-Boost Use Cases
Starting with our highly expandable skid mounted e-Boost Mini that can be used by dealerships and OEM demos that accelerate EV adoption to buildings who don’t want to tear up their parking lots. To the e-Boost GOAT, Generator on a Truck, a Triple-A model that provides emergency roadside charging. To the e-Boost Mobile our trailer mounted solution that can easily be relocated for use at sporting events and concerts where large numbers of people gather for a short period of time or during long holiday weekends on busy travel corridors or distribution centers or loading docks where vehicles are being loaded and unloaded. To an e-Boost Pod that can be placed in rural or remote parts of the highways meeting, for example, the Nat’l EV Infrastructure (NEVI) funding guidelines that an EV charger be situated every 50 miles within one mile of an exit and 40% in disadvantaged areas, providing 600 kW of power and support four 150 kW DC fast chargers.
Filling the Gaps in the EV Infrastructure
V charging gaps can occur for several reasons. The area might be too rural to feasibly bring infrastructure into the area. The cost might also be a barrier. In highly congested areas or in older buildings, there might not be room for EV charging infrastructure. There might be regulatory challenges, for example in national forests where there might not be a way to lay the infrastructure. While we intend to do the best, inevitably some communities will be left behind. e-Boost is the Swiss Army Knife that can eliminate the digital divide as well as fill the EV Charging Infrastructure gaps.
