Imagine being able to go to your neighborhood hub to charge your car when the power is out. That’s what one California tech enthusiast has envisioned.
Anurag Kamal, co-founder of ElectricFish—a Bay Area startup focused on resilient energy infrastructure—told EpochTV’s “Bay Area Innovators” program that he believes community-scale batteries with backup power will transform the electrical grid.
The battery the company produces is six feet by four feet and provides ultra-fast charging for electric vehicles (EVs), and the company also developed its own software. The main goal is to provide backup energy that can deliver electricity hundreds of miles away in five minutes, Kamal said….