Category: Automotive
"Where can I charge my car?" is a question at the top of electric vehicle owners’ minds, but not for employees at Hanover-based charging consultant Blue Whale EV.
The parking lot at its recently opened headquarters includes EV chargers, and the staff makes use of them. A year ago, the company had about 10% of its employees driving EVs. Today, about half drive to work in their greener vehicles, said Chief Marketing Officer Scott Swidersky. Swidersky and his colleagues want to make that a reality for other organizations, too.
"For people to budget for these chargers at their properties, it needs to make sense," Swidersky told the Baltimore Business Journal in an interview.
Blue Whale EV’s job is to help it make sense through planning, engineering and advising. The growing company has launched an internal consulting group dedicated to continuing education in their field, and the team is taking that expertise to clients. As cities and municipalities draw up complex contracts for building electric vehicle charging infrastructure, Blue Whale helps evaluate not only the plans, but also the contract awardees’ qualifications.
The company has worked with Baltimore City, where the government’s fleet is required to be 100% zero-emissions vehicles by 2030, and commercial groups including St. John Properties Inc. Property owners who started out with a handful of chargers now want to expand to dozens, and Blue Whale is there for the expansion.
The newly launched "Whale Care" team is focused on helping clients manage their charging infrastructure. For Swidersky, a sign that EV adoption is well on its way is the variety of cars offered now.
"[Electric] Jeeps, Kias and Rivians are pulling up into our parking lot these days. This is way beyond a Tesla world," he said.
