ZipCharge, a ‘pioneer in portable energy and EV charging’, last month announced that over 10,000 people have registered to pre-order a Go portable EV power bank when they go on sale in 2023. Since launching at COP26 in November 2021 pre-order registrations have been received from 88 countries and every continent across the globe.
Pre-order registrations have come from every major EV market around the world including the USA, the UK, Canada, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Italy and Sweden, with every country of the EU represented as well as established Asian markets including China, Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan, India, Taiwan, Korea, Thailand, along with the Middle East and African nations.
ZipCharge has also announce success in two separate major awards. The ZipCharge Go was awarded the ‘Physical Technology of the Year: Electric Energy’ at the Energy Awards in the UK. The judging panel praised the ZipCharge Go for addressing ‘a huge growth area with technology that has the needs of both the user and the community in mind’.
Meanwhile, the company was selected as a finalist at the ‘Proptech Startup and Scale-up Europe Awards 2022’. This competition is part of the European Commission’s Startup Europe initiative, and ZipCharge is just one of 10 startups to progress to the final in September in Brussels.
Jonathan Carrier, ZipCharge’s co-founder, said: “Reaching 10,000 pre-order registrations in seven months shows the appetite the public has for our innovative portable EV charger. People around the world are seeing how it will transform energy while enabling EV ownership — and there has been particular interest in island nations, where there is growing concern about energy resiliency and lack of infrastructure both at home and in public.
“Some 50% of people who registered already have a fixed home charger. They see the Go as an essential tool that provides more flexibility and convenience, to charge anywhere they park. They are also keen to realise the benefits of our unique bi-directional technology giving them the ability to arbitrage electricity simply by leaving the Go plugged into their home electricity. Buying overnight when electricity is cheaper, storing it in the Go to use it to power the home or sell it back to the grid at peak times.”
Realising that widespread EV adoption would be hampered by the inability to charge near or at home, ZipCharge co-founders Richie Sibal and Jonathan Carrier identified and developed a solution. Using their decades of experience in automotive electronics systems engineering and product development — gained at cutting-edge businesses like McLaren Automotive, Jaguar Land Rover, Lotus, Gordon Murray Group and LEVC — they developed the Go.