The Air BnB of EV Charging… If that’s not an audacious enough goal, then Pieter Waller wouldn’t be here on the latest episode of The Power Connect. We caught up with the Dutch Entrepreneur and Founder of Chargetrip, a range prediction and EV routing platform that has dominated Europe’s EV scene and is poised to do the same here in the United States.
Waller, who ran a consulting firm and had started several tech and online businesses prior to Chargetrip, was at the EV Charging Summit and Expo last week in Las Vegas as he and his team, including Ms. Cecile Post, who helped make this podcast possible, are taking Chargetrip international.
In this episode, Waller details the conversation of when his close friend told him why he wouldn’t take his EV on long-distance trips - and the two knew they needed to provide a solution. Thus the AirBnB of EV charging was born. From there, Waller tells us how the business came together, why it was important to be ‘more than an app,’ fearing they were ‘too late’ to the EV charging game and then realizing after their network crashed early in the process that they were on to something.
Finally, and perhaps most intriguing, is when Waller recognized the Fleet application for Chargetrip during a trip to Long Beach, California last year. While the consumer side of Chargetrip is growing, it’s the Fleet side that may be the true game changer in all of it.
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