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Taking place in the thriving tech ecosystem of Birmingham Alabama, the three month mentorship-driven program is bringing together founders from across the globe, along with a heavy US presence including one local Alabama company. The 2023 class was chosen for innovative products and solutions in areas that will revolutionize how we live and work.

This class also continues to build on our commitment to investing in diverse and underrepresented teams. Thank you to our sponsors, partners, mentors, and Techstars alumni who help to make Techstars Alabama EnergyTech successful.

Demo Day is scheduled for a special in-person event on December 5th, 2023! Founders will have an opportunity to pitch their businesses to a community of investors and mentors.

Introducing our Fall 2023 class for the Techstars Alabama EnergyTech Accelerator!

• Ai-Ops (Mobile, Alabama), a software developer that provides bolt-on solutions for next-generation AI Industrial Control Systems.
• BlueTanks (Charlotte, North Carolina), whose software helps electric vehicle (EV) drivers access the most convenient charging points optimized for their vehicles.
• Clever Offsets (New York), a data company that provides clients with analysis and insights on navigating the carbon offset market.
• EarthABC (Cleveland), which provides an open-access climate portal to help businesses achieve sustainability, providing financial incentives, technology vendors and consultants to enable companies to “take action in days instead of years.”
• EV Safe Charge (Los Angeles), developer of Ziggy, a robotic mobile EV charging platform that provides solutions for users of all types of electric vehicles.
• Grid Discovery (Hoboken, New Jersey), a cutting-edge software platform for engineers and city planners, transforming how microgrid projects are envisioned, planned and proposed.
• Infranergy (Miami), developer of solar-powered and battery energy storage products and technology to reduce energy costs, decarbonize and balance the grid, ensuring resilience and equitable access to clean energy for overlooked communities and businesses.
• Maverick IQ (Atlanta), which integrates engineering, software and IoT solutions to reduce operations and maintenance costs and drive productivity.
• Meredot (Riga, Latvia), a micromobility wireless charging solution that serves a wide range of vehicle models.
• Pitch Aeronautics (Boise, Idaho), developer of a wind-stabilized drone that performs up-close, robotic tasks that enables users to “leave the helicopters, cranes and bucket trucks at home.”
• ScoutIT (Raleigh, North Carolina), which is enabling the EV battery circular economy by helping companies extract greater value from end-of-life batteries.
• SplitEV (New York), a subscription and booking service that offers EV drivers affordable access to a network of privately owned charging stations while helping charger owners monetize underutilized assets.

https://www.techstars.com/newsroom/announcing-the-techstars-alabama-energytech-accelerator-fall-class-of-2023

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The Techstars Alabama EnergyTech Accelerator has kicked off its new class of 12 startups. (Elizabeth Raymond / Alabama News Center)

The 2023 class of Techstars Alabama EnergyTech Accelerator is underway, and it’s the biggest one ever.

This year’s cohort includes 12 companies — up from 10 in prior years — from nine U.S. states and the nation of Latvia that will undergo an intensive, 13-week mentoring program in Birmingham.

The new class is the fourth for Techstars Alabama EnergyTech Accelerator, which was founded in 2020. With the 2023 class, the program has welcomed 42 companies from across the United States and around the globe. Over its first three years, under the leadership of Managing Director Nate Schmidt and Program Manager Brooke Gillis, Techstars Alabama companies created over 200 jobs, including 32 that have remained in the state. The goal of their successors in those respective roles, Matthew Jaeh and Rae’Mah Henderson, is to continue building on that success.

“We are excited to carry forward the incredible momentum that started with Nate and Brooke,” said Jaeh. “The companies that have received investments and mentoring from Techstars Alabama EnergyTech Accelerator are in the top 1% of the thousands of applicants we receive from all over the world. They are the best of the best, and a few of them have made Alabama home.

“We want to keep building the future of energy here.”

The dozen companies of the 2023 Techstars Alabama EnergyTech Accelerator are:

Ai-Ops (Mobile, Alabama), a software developer that provides bolt-on solutions for next-generation AI Industrial Control Systems.

BlueTanks (Charlotte, North Carolina), whose software helps electric vehicle (EV) drivers access the most convenient charging points optimized for their vehicles.

Clever Offsets (New York), a data company that provides clients with analysis and insights on navigating the carbon offset market.

EarthABC (Cleveland), which provides an open-access climate portal to help businesses achieve sustainability, providing financial incentives, technology vendors and consultants to enable companies to “take action in days instead of years.”

EV Safe Charge (Los Angeles), developer of Ziggy, a robotic mobile EV charging platform that provides solutions for users of all types of electric vehicles.

Grid Discovery (Hoboken, New Jersey), a cutting-edge software platform for engineers and city planners, transforming how microgrid projects are envisioned, planned and proposed.

Infranergy (Miami), developer of solar-powered and battery energy storage products and technology to reduce energy costs, decarbonize and balance the grid, ensuring resilience and equitable access to clean energy for overlooked communities and businesses.

Maverick IQ (Atlanta), which integrates engineering, software and IoT solutions to reduce operations and maintenance costs and drive productivity.

Meredot (Riga, Latvia), a micromobility wireless charging solution that serves a wide range of vehicle models.

Pitch Aeronautics (Boise, Idaho), developer of a wind-stabilized drone that performs up-close, robotic tasks that enables users to “leave the helicopters, cranes and bucket trucks at home.”

ScoutIT (Raleigh, North Carolina), which is enabling the EV battery circular economy by helping companies extract greater value from end-of-life batteries.

SplitEV (New York), a subscription and booking service that offers EV drivers affordable access to a network of privately owned charging stations while helping charger owners monetize underutilized assets.

Located in Birmingham, Techstars Alabama EnergyTech Accelerator supports startups working in fields related to climate tech, clean tech and energy efficiency, including energy distribution, smart grids and wind energy. The accelerator is supported by Alabama Power, the Economic Development Partnership of Alabama (EDPA), the Alabama Department of Commerce, PowerSouth, the University of Alabama and Southern Research.

Techstars Alabama EnergyTech Accelerator is a program of the global early-stage venture capital investor Techstars, which will invest in more than 600 companies during 2023. With more than 3,900 active accelerator mentors and a network of corporate partners, investors and alumni, Techstars is dedicated to helping entrepreneurs succeed.

https://www.alabamanewscenter.com/2023/09/15/techstars-alabama-energytech-accelerator-launches-fourth-class-of-startups/

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ZiGGY is the first and only mobile EV charger that aims to affordably and safely meet the EV charging needs of virtually any commercial parking lot – including airports – and offer a built-in communications and advertising platform to create a revenue stream for sites and maximize EV owner engagement.

This airport demonstration is the first of its kind anywhere. DFW’s Innovation and Planning teams will host a series of EV charging demonstrations from May through August.

“Airports must meet the growing demand for travelers owning EVs to easily charge while they fly,” explained Caradoc Ehrenhalt, founder and CEO, EV Safe Charge. “In evaluating potential technologies for their pilot, DFW chose to display the tech offered by ZiGGY due to its innovative flexibility to reach every car in a parking lot, not just a few spaces. We look forward to working with DFW with the goal of identifying more options to service their expanding EV-driving traveler base, and we are thrilled to be part of this historic moment.”

Founded in Los Angeles in 2016, EV Safe Charge, in addition to selling commercial Level 2 and DC Fast Chargers, creates and implements temporary charging solutions for its large-scale commercial customers, including many mobility manufacturers such as Jaguar, Porsche, Stellantis, Nissan, Audi, Daimler, and Harley-Davidson.

https://techeconomy.ng/ziggy-charger-first-airport-world-pilot-mobile-robotic-ev-charging-solution/

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Dallas Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) is preparing to showcase ZiGGY, the innovative robotic electric vehicle (EV) charger from EV Safe Charge, as a part of its summer demonstration program. This series of demonstrations, planned from May through August, aims to evaluate advanced EV-charging methodologies. Notably, ZiGGY is the premier mobile EV charger designed to address the charging requirements of almost any commercial parking space, including airports. Beyond its core function, it also features an integrated communications and advertising platform, offering potential additional revenue sources and enhancing EV owner engagement.

Why It Matters

Caradoc Ehrenhalt, the founder and CEO of EV Safe Charge, stresses the growing need for airports to accommodate an increasing number of EV-owning travelers. “Airports must meet the growing demand for travelers owning EVs to easily charge while they fly,” Ehrenhalt said. ZiGGY’s inclusion in the program stems from its ability to reach any car within a parking lot, not just limited spaces, representing an innovative and flexible solution. The demonstration is historic and seeks to expand the options available to the burgeoning community of EV-driving travelers.

Key Points

In addition to marketing commercial Level 2 and DC Fast Chargers, EV Safe Charge develops and provides temporary charging solutions for its substantial commercial client base, which includes major mobility manufacturers like Jaguar, Porsche, Stellantis, Nissan, Audi, Daimler, and Harley-Davidson.

Ehrenhalt highlighted EV Safe Charge’s anticipation of the need for a fully mobile EV charging solution and their development of ZiGGY over the past three years. The autonomous vehicle, which operates through an app, aims to cover a wide range of EV charging requirements in areas beyond single- and multi-family housing.

Bottom Line

The DFW Airport initiative is among the recent achievements of EV Safe Charge. Notably, the company was chosen by the city of Barcelona as the winner of its pilot-project competition for flexible EV charging, underlining ZiGGY’s potential to serve numerous vehicles within a parking area. The primary objective of the Barcelona project is to further the city’s electromobility. In this context, the DFW Airport’s demonstration is a historic stride towards expanded EV infrastructure, positioning EV Safe Charge and its robotic charger, ZiGGY, at the forefront of this rapidly evolving market.

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https://theevreport.com/dfw-airport-chooses-ziggy-the-robotic-ev-charger-for-groundbreaking-demonstration-program

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Developed by EV Charge Safe, the robot charger, dubbed Ziggy, goes to a car in need of charging plug-ins, and then returns to a staging area for recharging. The mobile unit can also carry advertising as a source of revenue.

The advantage of mobile charging robots, EV Charge Safe has said, is that they could turn any parking space into an EV charging space. That could give drivers and infrastructure planners more flexibility, and act as a workaround for drivers of internal-combustion vehicles blocking EV charging spots, otherwise known as “ICEing.”

In its own release, EV Safe Charge noted that the city of Barcelona recently declared Ziggy the winner of a pilot-project competition for EV charging, thanks to the added flexibility of this mobile solution. The company also sells more conventional Level 2 AC and DC fast chargers for commercial use.

Other companies are experimenting with robotic charging as well, with some different angles. Automotive supplier Continental has devised a different kind of charging robot that relies on a physical connection to the vehicle. Somewhere in between, perhaps, is the wireless charging robot that Stellantis is developing with EFI Automotive. The latter was shown with the concept version of Ram’s electric pickup truck earlier this year, but the automaker hasn’t discussed its use with a production model launching in 2024.

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Dallas Fort Worth International Airport will host the world’s first mobile, robotic EV charging demonstration this summer for passengers and employees alike with electric vehicles.

The robot performing the charging is named ZiGGY, and it is to come to your car parked in a DFW Airport parking lot when summoned, charge your car and then drive itself back to its base.

ZiGGY is the creation of Los Angeles-based EV Safe Charge, a privately held company that specializes in flexible EV charging technologies. It creates and implements temporary charging solutions for its large-scale commercial customers, including Jaguar, Porsche, Stellantis, Nissan, Audi, Daimler and Harley-Davidson, among others.

The company was chosen by DFW Airport to participate in a program to demonstrate a series of cutting-edge EV charging stations, DFW Airport said. The demonstration program is scheduled to run from May through August.

 

In the above YouTube video, ZiGGY is booked by a driver well away from the parking lot where ZiGGY resides. The robot then finds an open parking space, saves it by parking itself there and then notifies the driver what space it has reserved. Once the car arrives, ZiGGY moves out of the way, goes behind the vehicle and starts the charging process. When it’s time to leave, ZiGGY automatically goes back to its station to recharge itself.

“In evaluating potential technologies for their demonstration, DFW chose to display the tech offered by ZiGGY due to its innovative flexibility to reach every car in a parking lot, not just a few spaces,” Caradoc Ehrenhalt, founder and CEO of EV Safe Charge said in a statement.

Once mobile charging becomes commonplace, it could go a long way towards solving the annoying issue of ICEing, when a vehicle powered by an internal combustion engine takes the parking space in front of a charger.

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ZiGGY will show off its skills this summer at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. EV SAFE CHARGE/YOUTUBE

One of the world’s busiest airports will soon showcase an innovative, undeniably cute way to speed up travelers’ entrances and exits. First announced earlier this month, Dallas Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) is partnering with EV Safe Charge to demonstrate how the company’s mobile electric vehicle charging station, ZiGGY, could be deployed in public spaces to economically and conveniently power up consumers’ parked cars.

Electric vehicles are an integral component of the societal shift towards clean, renewable energy. Unfortunately, battery shortages stemming from supply chain issues alongside a need for evermore charging stations is hampering a wider adoption of green transportation. ZiGGY obviously isn’t a catch-all fix, but it’s still a novel tool that both its makers and DFW hope to highlight over the summer as part of the airport’s series of EV charging solution demos.

“We know that electric vehicles will be a big part of the future of transportation,” Paul Puopolo, DFW’s Executive VP of Innovation, said in a statement, adding their air hub is “leaning into emerging technology now so that we are prepared to meet the needs of the airport community well into the future.”

ZiGGY itself resembles a large vending machine on wheels, which makes a certain amount of sense given it dispenses electric fuel on demand. Using geofencing technology, app-based controls, and on-board cameras, ZiGGY can be deployed directly to the location of your parked EV, where a user can then connect the charging bot to their ride. To court additional revenue streams, each ZiGGY also features large video screens capable of displaying advertisements. Don’t worry about getting stuck behind it if someone is using a ZiGGY, either—its dimensions and mobility ensures each station can park itself behind an EV without the need for additional space.

Speaking with Ars Technica on Tuesday, EV Safe Charge’s founder and CEO Caradoc Ehrenhalt explained that the idea is to deploy ZiGGY fleets to commercial hubs around the world, such as additional airports, hotels, and shopping centers. “What we’re hearing from people… is the common thread of the infrastructure being very challenging or not possible to put in or not cost effective or takes too much time. And so there really is the need for a mobile charging solution,” said Ehrenhalt.

Of course, such an autonomous vehicle could find itself prone to defacement and vandalism, but Ehrenhalt apparently opts to look on the sunnier side of things. “Ziggy is fairly heavy because of the battery,” they cautioned to Ars Technica. “It has cameras all around and sensors, including GPS, and so there potentially could be [vandalism], but I’m always hoping for the best of humanity.”

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The aim of the project is to tackle various challenges in the expansion of electromobility in the city, such as the concentration of recharge points in parking areas and infrastructure maintenance.

B:SM chose EV Safe Charge as winner due to the company’s recently launched demonstration prototype of ZiGGY, a mobile, robotic EV charger that would be easily accessible to many vehicles within a car park. This win marks the first time that a city is piloting a mobile robotic EV charging solution anywhere in the world.

“In a compact city like Barcelona, the electromobility expansion strategy entails concentrating recharging points around the network of car parks”, explained Laia Bonet, president of BSM and Councillor for Mobility in Barcelona City Council. “The solution developed by Safe Charge offers a very good base to work from and explore the implementation of robotic and mobile recharging points which can get from one place to another to provide service in various rotational places. 

EV Safe Charge recognized early on the need for a truly mobile EV charging solution and worked the past three years to develop ZiGGY, an onsite-autonomous vehicle operating through an app to meet a broad range of EV charging needs in locations away from single- and multi-family housing,” explained Caradoc Ehrenhalt, Founder and CEO, EV Safe Charge. “We are thrilled to win the Innovation Challenge so that we can partner with B:SM to bring the convenience, safety and reliability of ZiGGY to the EV drivers of Barcelona.”

Founded in Los Angeles in 2016, EV Safe Charge creates and implements temporary charging solutions for its large-scale commercial customers, including many mobility manufacturers such as Jaguar, Porsche, Stellantis, Nissan, Audi, Daimler, and Harley-Davidson.

“B:SM told us that the solution must be scalable and replicable in any car park in Barcelona and other cities,” added Ehrenhalt. “We knew that ZiGGY was perfect for B:SM’s needs and are excited to begin with a pilot test in the B:SM car park in Plaça Navas next year.”

The pilot project has begun and will proceed in the following phases:

• Development and manufacture of prototypes
• Integration with B:SM systems and internal testing
• B:SM Parking Pilot and Results Analysis in 2024

“In this pilot, we expect to observe the viability of ZiGGY’s flexible EV charging in our parking structures,” said Bonet. “To have a solution that is better adapted to the charging demand of EVs in rotating parking spaces offers citizens a more efficient service and paves the way for new EV charging models. We own and manage 44 car parks and expect ZiGGY to make more effective use of the electrical infrastructure and help to promote adoption of electric mobility.”

This Challenge is also aligned with the effort to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations 2030 Agenda and that Barcelona City Council is facing through the Commissioner of the 2030 Agenda. As the winner, EV Safe Charge will receive €90,000 including VAT to execute the pilot program.

Watch ZiGGY video by WEF here.

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