Electric Era, an end-to-end EV charging solution provider, has officially opened New Mexico’s first fast-charging EV station (Level 3) funded by the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) Program. Electric Era beat out all other awardees, including Tesla, to achieve the first NEVI-funded station in New Mexico.
This is the first of 18 NEVI sites that Electric Era is building for Skycharger in California, New Mexico, and other states.
To complete the Skycharger site in just over six months, Electric Era used its patented technology alongside comprehensive turnkey solutions — including site acquisition, station design, utility coordination, and construction.
The project involved collaboration with Columbus Electric Co-Op and site host Bowlin’s Travel Centers, strategically located in Akela Flats along the vital I-10 corridor in Deming, NM.
The speed of the company’s first NEVI site demonstrates Electric Era’s ability to meet urgent EV fast-charging needs, including its unique ability to circumvent capital-intensive upgrades with its patented battery-backed design. The site features two 400-kW EV fast chargers capable of charging four EVs simultaneously at a minimum of 150 kW.
Since entering the market alongside the NEVI program’s launch in 2022, Electric Era’s patented, reliable, battery-backed EV-charging stations, combined with its streamlined team to manage and deliver comprehensive end-to-end EV charging solutions, make it the tailor-made NEVI project partner.
To date, Electric Era has secured and is executing on 31 NEVI site awards across the US and is the most-awarded vendor of battery-backed EV charging stations.
The New Mexico project proves Electric Era’s NEVI deployment strategy:
- Reliability: Electric Era’s patented and battery-backed solution delivers more than 98% uptime per port (exceeding 97% NEVI requirement), ensuring charging stations are operational and ready for use. (Uptime is the percentage of time a charging port is available and functional)
- Streamlined team: Comprehensive collaboration and laser-like focus between Electric Era’s Grants and Implementation teams supports rapid deployment
- Speed to market: top-ndustry deployment time demonstrates how Electric Era’s battery-backed solution allows it to bypass traditional infrastructure constraints (circumventing more than three-year long transformer lead times)
- Cost efficiency: The patented technology combined with the battery-backed solution not only improves reliability but also provides significant cost savings on large grid upgrades and demand charges.
- Investing in America: Electric Era creates skilled American jobs through local construction and maintenance operations
The NEVI program calls for state-level Department of Transportation offices to first install a highly reliable and high-power EV fast charging station every 50 miles on US highways. This puts the network’s gap areas, often grid constrained, rural areas, into focus. Electric Era’s solutions are perfect for this challenge.
Electric Era will continue to publicly share its performance metrics and uptime data, maintaining transparency with state DOTs and the public through standardized reporting tools and regular updates.
With the new change in administration, uncertainty around NEVI funding continues to circulate. EVs combined with the NEVI funding program were another path for American energy independence, national security, and helping to expand consumer choice.
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