itselectric, a Brooklyn-based curbside EV charging company is partnering with SWTCH Energy, a turnkey provider of EV charging systems for multi-tenant parking garages, to enable curbside charging units to draw power from building infrastructure.

"The country needs 1.2M more public EV chargers by 2030, particularly in dense urban neighborhoods. Today, the biggest barrier to deployment is the cost and complexity of connecting an EV charger directly to the utility's main in the roadway," Tiya Gordon, COO and co-founder of itselectric said, in a statement.

The partnership with SWTCH, which will deploy SWTCH software, "fully avoids this barrier, enabling affordable and scalable curbside charging," Gordon said.

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