Background

The transition to electric vehicles, EVs, during the current climate crisis requires extensive investment in charging infrastructure.

A significant challenge is charging EVs on city streets.

Construction work needed to deliver electricity to curbside charging posts is currently expensive and time-consuming, as well as contributing to greenhouse gas emissions.

Future investments in charging infrastructure must be profitable both monetarily and climate wise, ensuring a solid Return on Investment (ROI) both in terms of invested money and "invested" greenhouse gas emissions.

Several important infrastructure systems are located under city streets, including water, sewage, district heating, electricity, telecommunications, gas, etc. In each case, the system is operated and maintained by a legal jurisdiction with access to the corresponding land use. It is necessary to consider the ownership of the property.

The construction of curbside charging posts currently requires extensive cross-collaboration between business teams and local government stakeholders.

Excavation and construction of the charging post infrastructure requires groundwork. The process of planning and zoning for land use must be coordinated with local municipal authorities. A final problem with current efforts to build electrification infrastructure is that it is expensive, which results in long construction times, ballooning costs, and a rise in carbon emissions that exacerbates the climate crisis.