Ample
Electric Cars for Everyone
Ample seeks to solve the energy delivery challenge for electric transportation by utilising autonomous robotics and smart-battery technology. The San-Francisco based innovator has created an economical, rapidly deployable and widely accessible platform that delivers a full charge to any electric car in minutes.
Ample’s mission is to accelerate the transition to electric mobility by offering an energy delivery solution that is as fast, as convenient, and as cheap as gas ultimately removing all hurdles to adopting an electric vehicle.
“We aim to create a solution that allows EVs to fully transition to renewable energy. We are a team of technologists, designers and environment enthusiasts who believe that this problem is among one of the most critical challenges of our time”.
Ample’s battery-swap stations could help get more EVs on the road. Drive-in bays robotically swap drained batteries for fully charged ones in just five minutes, the company claims.
The process can work in different vehicle models using adapter plates, so scaling the strategy requires close cooperation with vehicle makers; CEO Khaled Hassounah says the company is working with five automakers, including two major global ones.
He thinks the booming consumer EV market needs swapping to grow even as plug-in charging expands and gets faster (it currently takes at least 30 minutes). In 2023 Ample got a $15 million grant from the California energy commission to boost production.