Made in Durham, NC: European company ships first EV charger from its new US factory
They posed for a group photo with the 7-foot-tall metal cabinet wrapped in plastic, then watched anxiously as it was lifted by forklift and loaded into a box truck.
Employees at Kempower this week shipped their first electric vehicle charging system made in the company’s new factory in Durham. The cabinet, containing modules capable of providing 600 kw of electricity, was sent along with three chargers, each with two nozzles, to a customer in Edmonton, Canada.
Kempower is a Finnish company that chose Durham for its base in North America at a time when governments and the private sector are scrambling to create networks of chargers for the growing number of electric vehicles. About 75,000 fully electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles were registered in North Carolina this fall, five times as many as in 2018, and manufacturers are coming out with new EV models every year…
