Charge Enterprises, Inc. announced that it has been selected by Akins Ford ? Georgia?s largest volume Ford dealer and a top ten Ford U.S. dealership ? for the turnkey engineering, procurement, and construction of 19 electric vehicle (EV) charging stations and a 450 kW DC solar photovoltaic (PV) system.

Greenspeed Energy Solutions, LLC, a Charge Enterprises company, will start the project in mid-December and will serve to advance Akins Ford?s electrification objectives and larger mission to make sustainable transportation more accessible and convenient to its customers. The partnership will result in the install of 19 total EV chargers ? including two 120kW Level 3 chargers with two charging ports each, one 180kW Level 3 charger with two charging ports, five 19.2kW Level 2 chargers, and 11 NEMA receptacles for mobile 9.6kW Level 2 chargers.

Assuming the new infrastructure facilitates 60 hours of charging per week, Akins Ford can expect these chargers to generate 3,000 hours of charging per year, equaling over 1.7 million KWh, enough energy to allow an electric battery vehicle to drive 6 million miles. In addition to the EV chargers, Greenspeed will also install rooftop solar panels and a solar canopy over the EV charging stations. These sustainable additions are anticipated to offset 455 metric tons of Carbon Dioxide, which is equivalent to the amount of energy needed to fully power nearly 60 homes.

To help demonstrate the positive long-term environmental impact of these additions, Charge plans to install an energy dashboard in the dealership?s customer lounge that will display accumulated carbon emission offset data from the EV chargers and solar panels.