An engineer holds a smartphone device displaying the Hevo Inc. application to charge electric vehicles with wireless technology at the company's power facility in the Brooklyn borough of New York, U.S., on Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2018. Hevo Inc. the wireless-charging startup aims to overturn the burgeoning industry that's busy building out a global infrastructure to provide power to electric cars through public plugs. Photographer: Christopher Lee/Bloomberg
Umer Anwer stops on the street near Tesla Inc’s Brooklyn showroom and grabs his smartphone. He’s looking for a spot to charge his electric car, and the Tesla charging plugs won’t work with the Nissan Leaf he’s driving. In fact, he would prefer not to bother with a plug at all.
Hevo Inc, the wireless-charging startup where Anwer is chief technology officer, aims to overturn the burgeoning industry that’s busy building out a global infrastructure to provide power to electric cars through public plugs. There were about 582,000 public charging outlets worldwide at the end of 2017, according to a recent report by Bloomberg NEF, and that number is forecast to grow by nearly 30% this year. Virtually every one of these charging locations uses plugs.
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