Neha Palmer, CEO of Terawatt Infrastructure, explains the site selection criteria and utility power availability for Terawatt's commercial fleet charging hub near Los Angeles International Airport.
Prediction Open · timeframe May 2028
Palmer: Terawatt Will Require Multiple Billion-Dollar Raises to Build EV Network
“The billion dollars is not gonna last that long to build that many assets, and so it was really the vision from the beginning that this is not just a small-scale effort, it's going to be something that requires significant capital, and they'll have to be multi…”
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Palmer: Urban Rideshare Operators Find Running EVs Cost-Accretive Over ICE Vehicles
“On the rideshare side, in dense urban markets where there's a lot of traffic, we're hearing from operators, it's cost-accretive for them to run EVs instead of traditional vehicles because of the fuel savings.”
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Palmer: Terawatt navigated Inglewood municipal code for new EV charging hub
“So, we worked very closely with the City of Englewood, who was a fan, who is a fantastic host for us here in this site, to understand what their existing code was, and how we might fit into it, and had to go through a whole process, ah, with the City Council, …”
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Palmer: Southern California WAIRE rules penalize non-ZEV warehouse traffic
“In Southern California, you also have something called the wear rules, where non-zero-emission vehicles going in and out of warehouse hubs can start to incur fines for those warehouses”
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Palmer: Terawatt port site secured 7MW of power on day one
“This site also had something really incredible where you don't find this in many locations, which is seven megawatts of power available from day one.”
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Palmer: Terawatt takes 18 to 24 months to build sites
“It takes us, call it, 18 months to 24 months to find a site, get it entitled, permitted, constructed, and then operational.”