ChargePoint Expands in Sacramento & Congradulates ECOtality, Nissan

DMC Green announced today \they have opened the first electric vehicle charging station in West Sacramento, CA. The DMC-owned charging station, featuring a Coulomb Technologies ChargePoint™ Networked Charging Station, is the first of 40 DMC charging stations now in contract scheduled for installation throughout California.

The official unveiling of the charging station took place on Wednesday, August 5, 2009 at 10:00 am at the DMC Harbor Point 76 Station in West Sacramento. (705 Harbor Point Pl, West Sacramento).

The 76 station is the first fuel station to offer a selection of three alternative and renewable fuels to local residents and businesses, now offers electric vehicle charging.

Coulomb Technologies also congratulated Electric Transportation Engineering Corporation (eTec), a subsidiary of ECOtality, on the award of their U.S. Department of Energy grant of approximately $99.8 million. The grant will allow eTec to undertake the largest deployment of electric vehicles (EVs) and charging infrastructure in U.S. history. eTec will install electric vehicle charging infrastructure and deploy up to 1,000 Nissan battery electric vehicles in five states: Arizona, California, Oregon, Tennessee, and Washington and install approximately 12,500 Level 2 (220V) charging systems and 250 Level 3 (fast-charge) systems. Coulomb is proud and honored to be included as a charging partner for the grant.

Late last year at the Electric Drive Transportation Association EDTA summit in Washington DC we learned that Nissan has been a partner with the Better Place Network and this expansion may be related to their development of car systems for that project as well.