Gravity Technologies is working hard to make electric vehicle charging faster and more widely available, particularly in populous cities like its home

Sub-15-minute EV charger ready for on-street parking

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2024-03-31 11:30:02

Gravity Technologies is working hard to make electric vehicle charging faster and more widely available, particularly in populous cities like its home base of New York. Just weeks removed from launching the fastest charging station in the United States, it's revealed new 200-kW curbside chargers designed to bring its world-beating fast-charging tech to the streets. The company says its latest hardware is the same size as a conventional Level 2 charger but 30 times faster – quick enough to give a substantial charge while parked for short bodega or deli stop.

It's easy to imagine large EV charging stations in suburbs and alongside superhighways, but when it becomes much harder when thinking about city centers so dense and crowded drivers have trouble finding parking spots each and every day. Compounding that problem is the fact that at-home charging is a more complex issue for apartments and other multi-unit dwellings common in urban areas - so urban EV drivers can't necessarily rely on overnight charging, either.

That threatens to be a major obstacle for EV adoption moving forward, as more than half the world's population lives in cities and that number is only expected to get bigger in the coming decades.