The Harlow Report-GIS
2023 Edition
ISSN 0742-468X
Since 1978
On-line Since 2000
first published week of: 05/08/2023
A Hurricane Kills Your Power. How Do You Charge Your Electric Vehicle?
by Hannah Morse
Florida Power & Light on Thursday unveiled its own mobile electric-vehicle charging station to be used during hurricane evacuations, in areas with power outages and in other scenarios.
While other there are companies like Blink and SparkCharge that offer mobile EV charging, FPL’s 39-foot mobile trailer can be sent out into communities to fast-charge up to six cars at a time with a 1.3-megawatt battery, which has the capacity to offer roughly 4,000 miles of range.
“We want to make sure that EV drivers are confident in their choice using FPL’s EVolution network, and being able to deploy these trailers will help them in an evacuation scenario,” said Mary Alice Jackson, project director of development for FPL. “So we want to make sure that we’re just really providing all that confidence to EV drivers.”
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