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Volvo goes off the grid, invests in mobile-charging experts Freewire
Volvo Cars has announced an investment in Freewire Technologies, a company that emphasizes mobile charging solutions. Freewire earlier this year attracted a $5 million investment from the petro-giant ... more
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Questioning The Fundamentals Of Fueling To Enable A New Electric Vehicle Ecosystem
Across sectors, human behavior evolves in parallel with the latest and greatest technology that is transforming a given market. Personal transportation is a result of that disruption. In an effort to ... more
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BP and RocketSpace test advanced mobility solutions with global start-ups
London and San Francisco – BP and RocketSpace, founders of the Mobility Tech Innovation Collaborative, are shaping the future movement of people, goods, and services in collaboration with global mob... more
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BP Trials FreeWire EV Charging System
BP has launched a trial of its FreeWire EV charging service in the UK, with the oil firm’s Hammersmith filling station the first forecourt to feature the system. Currently on trial until the end of ... more
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FreeWire deploys battery systems to increase the scalability of EV infrastructure
Rolling out the charging stations necessary to enable wide-scale adoption of EVs is a challenging task. Though valiant efforts are being made, there are still a lot of problematic applications that co... more
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A Historic Weekend for Electric Vehicles
FreeWire was a proud supporter of both electric efforts at this year’s hill climb and delivered one Mobi unit to each EV team. With the week leading up to the race packed with practice runs, Samurai... more
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FreeWire Turns Mobi Charger Into Mobi Gen – Mobile 80-kWh Power
FreeWire Technologies is expanding its business from mobile charging stations to mobile generators with Mobi Gen for off-grid applications. The FreeWire Mobi Gen is kind of a mobile energy storage pow... more
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14 Experts Share Their 2018 Electric Vehicle Predictions & Developments
2017 was the year the question around the future of electric vehicles went from “If?” to “When?” And a few months into 2018 sees continuing momentum. Not a week (sometimes a day) goes by witho... more
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Battery Storage Can Help Expand Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure
According to McKinsey, there could be ten to eleven million battery electric vehicles (BEVs) by 2030 on American roads. (Currently, there are just 700,000 to 800,000.) If the company’s estimate is c... more
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The Future of Mobile Power at ARA
FreeWire will be unveiling a new Mobi Gen Flex at the 2018 American Rental Association Show. This unveiling comes with quite the back story.... more
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BP Just Invested $5 Million in a Company that Builds EV Charging Systems
BP, one of the world’s largest oil companies, is slowly inching their way into the clean energy business. The company announced on Monday, January 30, that they are investing $5 million in FreeW... more
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BP invests in mobile electric vehicle charging company FreeWire to deliver rapid charging at retail sites
BP today announced that its venturing business has invested $5 million in FreeWire Technologies Inc. (FreeWire), a US-based manufacturer of mobile electric vehicle (EV) rapid charging systems, and pla... more
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Ermigod, Look At This Adorable BP-Branded EV Charging Station!
Global oil and gas companies have begun diversifying into renewable energy and EV charging assets over the past few years and now they’re practically tripping over each other to catch up with Tesla ... more
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How Do We Sustain Innovation In Cleantech?
In the late afternoon, a small group of investors joined the FreeWire team to listen to Danny Kennedy, Dawn Lippert and Arcady Sosinov discuss the current energy startup landscape.... more
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FreeWire Office Launch Reception
FreeWire held a launch reception this past Tuesday to celebrate the opening of the new office and engineering space. Still residing in the great city of San Leandro, CA, the new facility is roughly fo... more
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How FreeWire’s Second-Life Battery Packs Could Help EVs Go Mainstream
Electric-vehicle charging stations are becoming more powerful in order to serve the next generation of plug-in cars, outfitted with bigger batteries that allow them to travel longer distances. Widespr... more
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Is Hardware Merely a Vehicle for Software in This Age of IoT?
...The panel consisted of Jawann Swislow, CIO and acting CTO, Mark Langer, Senior Software Engineer, and Forrest North, VP of Systems Integration. “We are looking for data that allows for insig... more
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Team Profile: Steve Schwartz, Customer Success
FreeWire is proud to welcome Steve Schwartz as our Senior Director of Customer Success. Focused on ensuring the happiness of our customers, Steve will be continuously improving our products and servic... more
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Supporting the March for Science
One of the largest satellite marches took place on in Los Angeles, where an estimated 50,000 participants gathered at Pershing Square. Public figures and activists delivered speeches from the main sta... more
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Polished And Optimized, Inside And Out
FreeWire Technologies is committed to providing the most reliable battery-supported electric vehicle chargers and our Level 2 Mobi Chargers have been upgraded for more superior performance.... more
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FreeWire Named 2016 Innovator Of The Year
The San Leandro Chambers of Commerce honors FreeWire Technologies as the 2016 Innovator of the Year. The recognition was given to the company and fellow business leaders in the local area during an aw... more
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Former SunPower Exec Tapped To Spearhead Growth Strategy
FreeWire Technologies announced today that Darin McDonald has joined the company as Vice President of Manufacturing to further development of the company’s mobile power product line. Darin comes to ... more
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Energy Storage Startup Speed Pitch: FreeWire, UtilityAPI, Axiom Exergy
FreeWire CEO Arcady Sosinov’s company is using “second-life” EV batteries to “reach a cost-competitive part of the market that other energy storage players typically cannot be ... more
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Eye On Mobile EV Charging In Honolulu
After a successful dedication ceremony last Thursday, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser and Pacific Business News summarizes some key takeaways. ... more