While there generally is greater interest in electric vehicles among members of the public than interest in EV chargers, there are some intriguing developments in the EV charging space. If you haven’t heard of the EV charging company Eleport, here is some background information. Eleport operates about 800 public EV chargers at 300 locations in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovenia, and Croatia. About half of its chargers are fast ones. Even more importantly, the company’s chargers can charge electric vehicles with clean, renewable electricity. “In collaboration with the ‘AJ Power’ group, all ‘Eleport’ customers will be provided with 100% locally produced green energy sourced from local solar, wind, and hydroelectric power stations.” Recently, Eleport agreed with Respect Energy to use clean, renewable electricity from Respect in its chargers in Poland. “This agreement was designed to combine access to 100% renewable energy with greater transparency and control on the partner’s side — both in terms of guarantees of origin and data that enable better management of energy consumption, ESG targets, and the ability to capture market opportunities,” said Sebastian Ostrowski, Strategic Account Manager at Respect Energy. Eleport operates about 300 EV chargers in Poland. Electric vehicles have many advantages over gas and diesel vehicles. Perhaps the greatest is that they can operate on clean, renewable electricity. Clean, renewable electricity is not associated with petrodictators such as Putin and some of the most corrupt politicians in other countries who try to deny that human-made climate change is real. Gas and diesel vehicles can not be operated on clean, renewable sources — they can only use dirty, highly polluting, toxic fossil fuels. Electricity also tends to cost less than gas and diesel fuel. The motors in electric vehicles are much more energy efficient, whereas gas and diesel engines waste much of their energy. For these two reasons, operating electric vehicles usually costs less. The battery packs in electric vehicles can be used as backup electricity for personal homes and in virtual power plants to support electrical grids. Their batteries can also be re-purposed to use in second-life stationary energy storage. The future is electric, and clean and renewable. Eventually, solar power, wind power, hydropower, and geothermal will replace fossil fuels. Fully electric vehicles will replace gas and diesel vehicles.
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