As many cities across the country work to lower emissions and reduce fossil-fuel dependency, infrastructure to charge electric vehicles must be installed. Numerous municipalities and states have expanded electric vehicles fleets and are working to accomplish this.
Envision Solar International, a leading producer of sustainable electric vehicle charging products, received an order from the City of Glendale, Arizona, for its EV ARC charging infrastructure product. The chargers will be used to fuel the city’s electric fleet vehicles.
According to Arizona State University, the city maintains a fleet of more than 1,300 vehicles, trailers and other maintenance equipment. The city aims to decrease its fossil fuel consumption, carbon emissions and maintenance costs by transitioning its fleet to electric vehicles.
“Sunshine is a commodity that we have in abundance here in the ‘Valley of the Sun,’” said Montana Slack, Fleet Management Superintendent, City of Glendale, Arizona, “so the Envision Solar EV ARC makes perfect sense to capitalize on that free sustainable resource,”
EV ARC is in use by more than ninety municipalities nationwide to charge electric vehicles. This eliminates taxpayers having to fund construction and pay electrical costs associated with traditional grid-tied chargers.
How it Works
Vehicles charging on EV ARC products will be emissions-free because the energy they consume will be 100 percent solar generated. EV ARC products will continue to charge Glendale’s fleet vehicles during blackouts and will provide emergency power to first responders during grid interruptions caused by natural disasters or other causes.
“Having only recently entered the Arizona market, I’m delighted to add another city to our growing list of customers,” Envision Solar CEO Desmond Wheatley said. “This continues our ongoing strategy to make construction free driving on sunshine available to all of the nineteen thousand municipalities across the U.S.”
Manufactured in California, the patented EV ARC and EV ARC DC Fast Charging products fit inside single parking spaces without reducing available parking. The EV ARC product generates enough clean solar electricity to power up to 225 miles of EV driving in a day. EV ARC DC fast charging systems provide up to 1,100 miles per day. The EV ARC system’s solar electrical generation, enhanced by EnvisionTrak which causes the solar array to follow the sun, generates up to 25 percent more electricity than a fixed array. Energy gets stored in the product’s on-board energy storage for charging day or night, and to provide EV charging and emergency power during grid failure.
EV ARC is a permanent solution that provides Level I, Level II and DC fast charging. Because the product requires no trenching, foundations or installation work, it can be deployed in minutes. The chargers can also be moved to a different location with ease.
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