Lighting Industry, Products + Technology

Lighting Industry Embraces EV Chargers

David Shiller June 14, 2022

The lighting industry is embracing EV chargers at a remarkable rate, considering they aren’t a lighting product.

Image courtesy of EspenEV.com

In a recent podcast, Electrical Wholesaler shared the following results of a survey of Top 150 electrical distributors and the interest they’re seeing in EV chargers from their electrical contractor customers. Note the gray bars, below, showing the percentage of contractors already installing each type of EV chargers:

I’ve collected examples, below, of manufacturers, and a lighting e-commerce leader jumping into the EV charger space:

Espen Technology is introducing a new line of EV chargers at LFI, next week. Their EV charger dedicated website is EspenEV.com

Light Efficient Design has a new line of EV Chargers branded as breezEV. Their dedicated EV charger website is https://breez-ev.com

Stresscrete offers a streetlight pole with a built-in EV charger, named VoltLock. More information here.

The online retailer Bulbs.com began selling EV chargers in May, 2022. More information here

David Shiller

David Shiller is the Publisher of LightNOW, and Senior Business Development Consultant at Capacity Consulting, a North American consulting firm providing business development services to advanced lighting manufacturers. The ALA awarded David the Pillar of the Industry Award. David has been co-chair of the ALA’s Engineering Committee since 2010. David established MaxLite’s OEM component sales into a multi-million dollar division. He invented GU24 lamps while leading ENERGY STAR lighting programs for the US EPA. David has been published in leading lighting publications, including LD+A, enLIGHTenment Magazine, LEDs Magazine, and more.

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