Electric vehicle charging facility. Photo credit: California Energy Commission

Coda Energy, with Energy Vault and Growing Energy Labs (GELI), will deploy the first solar integrated electric vehicle fast-charging station optimised by energy storage in the San Francisco Bay Area, USA.
The charging station will incorporate a 175kW solar array, DC fast charging, a 40kWh Coda Core UDP energy storage system and GELI’s intelligent Energy Operating System software.

DC charging, which refuels a typical electric vehicle battery in up to 60 minutes, improves the usability of electric vehicles by extending their effective range and enabling road trips. These stations require high quantities of power to operate and as a result incur costly utility peak demand charges that can add up to hundreds or thousands of dollars per month, says Coda.