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CHRG Network signed partnership with SPARK!

CHRG Network Team together with SPARK CEO Nerijus Dagilis

CHARGE NETWORK signed Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with UAB Ride Share which operates electric car sharing service under brand SPARK.

SPARK operates in Lithuania, Bulgaria and Romania and owns 200+ EV fleet and a closed-private network of 70+ EV charging stations.

Partnership is mutually beneficial as SPARK’s network of EV charging stations certain amount of time is under-utilised and company is considering opening its EV charging network to commercial use at certain time slots.

CHRG Network will develop platform integration with SPARK’s EV charging network. This way charging stations will become accessible for CHRG Network users and will contribute to SPARK’s revenue stream.

SPARK’s main goal is to rapidly expand its EV sharing platform to new markets. Limited access to charging infrastructure is a bottle neck in EV car sharing business. This is where CHRG NETWORK will come in and provide access for SPARK’s EV fleet to all charging stations connected to CHRG NETWORK platform with the aim to decrease SPARK’s reliance on its own EV charging network.

Both companies believe this memorandum will be a basis for long lasting and mutually beneficial partnership.

CHRG Network, how it all started…

Every day I get a lot of questions regarding the roots of my passion for electric vehicles, green movement and CHRG Network. I think that everything started in 2007 when I first saw documentary “Who Killed the Electric Car?”. There were two cornerstone ideas which stuck in my mind:

1. Our dependency on oil is harming us health wise, limits momentum of our prospering and creates all kinds havoc in geopolitics.

2. Governments and corporations will not make fast transition to clean energy. They are too much addicted to oil and will protect status quo.

It was very sad to realize that in the beginning. Anyhow, I started to follow EV development which began with TESLA Roadster (2008) and NISSAN Leaf (2010). I kind of realized that transition is only possible when there is willingness from public to demand clean transport over ICE powered one.

TESLA has done it. Elon Musk introduced Roadster and Model S. He managed to change public’s attitude towards EV. I was super excited. For me Elon was a hero fighting alone against “old world dinosaurs”. I got so emotional about it that in 2015 I decided to buy Model S myself. I did not need a car at all. In fact I lived in Copenhagen at the time and was commuting using bicycle or train and was perfectly happy with it. Furthermore, financially it was a bad idea. A lot smarter move would have been to stay on safe side and invest into real estate or money generating business. Somehow, I pushed all rational ideas to the side. Emotions prevailed. I wanted to be a part of the change Elon was making.

Carrier wise I was struggling. I knew that I want to be a part of something new and growing. I began visiting startup community. I even joined one startup for a short period. Had some ideas of my own which I was testing on spare time.


Challenge Cup @ Vilnius Tech Park, Sep 22.2017

Hackathon @ Vilnius Tech Park with Vladas Lasas

In 2017, I came back to Lithuania to start a new life. I brought my Tesla with me. Charging infrastructure in Lithuania is very underdeveloped. I was totally dependent on public chargers and wasted too much time adding energy to my battery. This was real problem for me. I realized that if we want fast transition from ICE to EV’s we need to dramatically increase number of charging points. The challenge is to break “chicken-egg” cycle which prevents big corporations to invest into slow charger network before there is substantial EV number on road. The only way to scale charger network fast is to use shared economy model.

I attended hackathon in April 2017 to develop EV charger network idea. After this event I started working on APP connected to IOT device which would reduce charger cost and would allow peers to share EV charger. However, in autumn 2017 I met Zilvinas and Gintaras who were thinking to approach same problem from another angle. Gintaras’ idea was to make open software platform for EV station owners and EV drivers. I understood that it was the only way to scale EV charging network fast.

I joined them and this was the day CHRG Network was born.

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CHRG Network @Crypto capital world summit 2018

Chrg Network charge crypto rally emile delam linas kuzma

Hacking selfie with CHRG Network team — Linas Kuzma and Emile Delam

We have participated @Crypto capital world summit in Vilnius on 25–26th April in Vilnius.

Blockhain/Crypto world is changing very fast, thus it is very important to get latest updates from the best in the industry. Especially when they come to visit you in your city.

Great event and many new acquaintances. I was super happy to meet “old crypto philosophy” people in such events. From the very beginning blockchain was about disruption and decentralization. Good to know that there are still people following the root cause. Super inspiring talk from Tim Draper

Hope to meet all again in next events!