ChargePoint® and Gatik partner to develop an electric ecosystem for autonomous electric medium-duty trucks
March 28 2022 - 05:00AM
Business Wire
ChargePoint will work with Gatik to establish
electric vehicle charging infrastructure and integrated services
for Gatik’s customers in the U.S. and Canadian markets
ChargePoint (NYSE: CHPT), a leading electric vehicle (EV)
charging network, and Gatik today announced a strategic partnership
to develop an electric ecosystem for autonomous vehicles designed
to maximize sustainability, operational efficiency and economics
for ChargePoint and Gatik’s customers across North America. Through
the partnership, infrastructure and integrated services will play a
significant role in helping to decarbonize the B2B short-haul
logistics sector and will offer a simple and seamless solution to
help Gatik and ChargePoint’s customers meet their corporate
sustainability goals.
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“Our partnership with Gatik will help more fleets to realize
their e-mobility and decarbonization goals,” said Rich Mohr, Vice
President, Fleet at ChargePoint. “ChargePoint has proven experience
across multiple customer applications and use cases. Together,
ChargePoint and Gatik will provide industry-leading infrastructure
and technologies for forward-thinking fleets.”
“Gatik’s autonomous electric fleet is uniquely positioned to
increase efficiency and reliability across the supply chain’s
middle mile, and drive sustainability across critical operational
metrics for our customers,” said Arjun Narang, Co-founder and CTO
at Gatik. “Our partnership with ChargePoint will ensure that we’re
not only meeting intensifying demand for our product offering and
service, but offering our customers access to national charging
infrastructure and a wealth of technical advantages to support them
in meeting their corporate sustainability goals.”
Customers transporting goods in Gatik’s autonomous electric
fleet will have access to ChargePoint’s expertise in site design,
interoperability validation, and lower investment costs. Gatik will
also have access to a nationwide charging network and
fleet-specific software that provides telematics intelligence
configurable to each customer’s operations, as well as modular
charging hardware to minimize upfront costs by reducing required
electrical capacity. This strategic electric ecosystem
collaboration for the middle mile will play a key role in the
electrified logistics sector.
Powered by ChargePoint’s scalable and reliable charging
technology, Gatik launched its first autonomous electric box trucks
with Walmart in 2021, a groundbreaking solution offering
hyper-efficient goods movement, significant emissions reductions
and impactful savings on fuel and powertrain maintenance costs. As
the retail, E-commerce and logistics sectors look to decrease their
carbon footprints, demand for Gatik’s product offering among
national retail and E-Commerce giants has soared, leading to rapid
expansion of ChargePoint’s infrastructure at Gatik’s vehicle depots
and customer locations across existing and emerging markets.
With consumer expectations for real-time access to goods
increasing faster than the most confident predictions, there has
been an influx of freight-moving vehicles added to North America’s
roads. This has made sustainability both a collective challenge and
a collective responsibility for leaders in the logistics industry
to contend with. Gatik’s partnership with ChargePoint ensures
customers have access to Gatik’s class 3-6 autonomous electric
fleet and ChargePoint’s charging infrastructure and integrated
services to support a cleaner, more efficient and sustainable
logistics sector.
About Gatik
Gatik, the leader in autonomous middle mile logistics, delivers
goods safely and efficiently using its fleet of light and medium
duty trucks. The company focuses on short-haul, B2B logistics for
Fortune 500 retailers and in 2021 launched the world’s first fully
driverless commercial delivery service with Walmart. Gatik’s Class
3-6 autonomous box trucks are commercially deployed in multiple
markets including Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana and Ontario. Gatik has
raised a total of $114.5 million and is backed by Koch Disruptive
Technologies, Innovation Endeavors, Wittington Ventures and others,
and partnered with industry leaders including Ryder, Goodyear and
Isuzu. Founded in 2017 by veterans of the autonomous technology
industry, the company has offices in Mountain View and Toronto.
Gatik was recognized on the 2021 Forbes AI 50 list and as a World
Economic Forum Technology Pioneer.
About ChargePoint
ChargePoint is creating a new fueling network to move people and
goods on electricity. Since 2007, ChargePoint has been committed to
making it easy for businesses and drivers to go electric with one
of the largest EV charging networks and a comprehensive portfolio
of charging solutions. ChargePoint’s cloud subscription platform
and software-defined charging hardware are designed to include
options for every charging scenario from home and multifamily to
workplace, parking, hospitality, retail and transport fleets of all
types. Today, one ChargePoint account provides access to
hundreds-of-thousands of places to charge in North America and
Europe. To date, more than 105 million charging sessions have been
delivered, with drivers plugging into the ChargePoint network every
two seconds or less. For more information, visit the ChargePoint
pressroom, the ChargePoint Investor Relations site, or contact
ChargePoint’s North American European press offices or Investor
Relations.
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Richard Steiner, Gatik 650-282-3076 richard@gatik.ai
Susan Donahue, Skyya for Gatik 646-454-9378
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