"The funding will help the company build new hubs in California, including a 76-stall fast-charging site in San Bernardino, California. The site will have four "pull through" stalls with Megawatt Charging System plugs that allow a semi truck to top up without unhooking the trailer. When open, the hub should be able to charge more than 200 Class 8 trucks per day."
""It was a new sort of infrastructure class for real estate," Patrick Sullivan, co-founder and CEO of EV Realty, told TechCrunch. EV Realty, he added, is "very much the same concept." EV Realty found the site using its in-house software, which maps the electrical grid, vehicle density, traffic patterns, real estate use, and likely customers. The company is searching for free space on the grid - much like data centers."
Electric commercial truck adoption is growing while fleet charging infrastructure faces grid constraints and competing electricity demand. Only a few thousand electric trucks operate today, yet over half of fleets are piloting the technology. EV Realty locates underutilized grid capacity and converts properties near warehouses, ports, and industrial sites into multi-fleet charging hubs. The company operates five California hubs and raised $75 million led by NGP to expand. Planned builds include a 76-stall fast-charging hub in San Bernardino with Megawatt Charging System "pull-through" stalls that enable semi trucks to top up without unhooking trailers and support over 200 Class 8 charges per day. EV Realty uses in-house software to map grid capacity, vehicle density, traffic patterns, and likely customers to identify suitable sites.
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