The Leader in Smart Electric Vehicle Charging Closes New Funding
Summary
FlexCharging, Inc., the first company to do electric vehicle (EV) smart & managed charging with its over-the-air technology, has secured a new partner and Series A funding from Accurant International. This enables utilities and customers to use electric vehicles as a grid resource instead of trying to manage the grid stability issues that large-scale EV adoption could cause the electrical system.FlexCharging, an American company based in Seattle, Washington, founded by Brian Grunkemeyer, a technology expert with 21 years leading cloud compute engineering at Microsoft and an environmentalist at heart with 10 years of involvement with the Sierra Club, was the first to perform smart managed charging through over-the-air technology in 2017. "FlexCharging is on a mission to provide smart charging for all-electric vehicle makes and models, no matter where they drive or what they plug into, to solve this major problem for utilities and EV owners alike. With a team of passionate engineers and operators at the helm, they are on their way to accomplishing this.FlexCharging is an American company based in Washington State, launched in 2017, as the first of its kind telematics-based, electric vehicle (EV) managed (smart) charging solution. Accurant was started by Bahman Hoveida, former CEO and Co-Founder of Open Systems International which was subsequently sold to Emerson Electric in 2020.