Stephanie McGreevy has spent her career in alternative-fuel infrastructure, and today, as a Channel Account Manager for OptiGrid, she helps fleets and site hosts deploy EV charging that is used. From her vantage point within the industry, she sees the same costly assumptions repeatedly derail projects. Chargers installed with no plan for who will use them. Budgets blown on utility upgrades that were never necessary. Revenue lost to delays no one saw coming.

Demand charges are one of the most overlooked costs in EV fleet charging. A single 15-minute power spike can add hundreds of dollars to your monthly bill, even if it only happens once. This infographic breaks down how OptiGrid's battery-integrated technology inside Reservoir chargers avoids that spike entirely by pulling power from the grid slowly, storing it in a battery, then delivering fast charging straight from that battery when a vehicle plugs in.

When most people think about EV charging reliability, they think about uptime and whether the charger is on or off. But there's a deeper layer of complexity that doesn't get talked about nearly enough: whether a charger can actually complete a successful session with the specific vehicle in front of it. That's the interoperability problem, and it's one we take very seriously at OptiGrid.

We've always known that Reservoir was built for tight-power situations. Fleet depots running out of capacity and sites waiting years for utility upgrades were the problems we designed as the solution. But recently, we got an inbound inquiry that opened up a whole category we hadn't fully considered - state and national parks.

In our latest video, Tyler Phillipi, OptiGrid's CEO, and Mark Purcell, Sr. Corporate Development at Orange EV, talk through what drives consumption: container weight, grade, and even the AC running. They also explain why real demo data beats spec-sheet guesswork, including the customer who asked to keep the truck two extra weeks to push it harder.

For last-mile fleet operators, the real barrier to EV adoption isn't the vehicles, it's the infrastructure. Power constraints, utility delays, and demand charges make electrification challenging. Brien Riff, Channel Sales Manager at OptiGrid, explains how battery-integrated charging with OptiGrid's Reservoir removes those barriers and how operators can have two routes running within weeks.

When Orange EV announced the largest single order in its history, 600 electric terminal trucks, it marked a milestone for the entire fleet electrification industry. OptiGrid's DC-Flow technology is part of what makes that scale possible. Orange EV's press release highlights a key enabling factor. The new e-CCS1™️ option, now available on all Orange EV trucks, delivers full CCS1 compatibility with existing and third-party charging infrastructure. That interface runs on OptiGri

OptiGrid's interoperability hub in California is where we bring together vehicles, chargers, power electronics, and software to make sure the full charging experience works in the real world.

For fleet managers weighing the benefits of converting to EV fleets, the conversation typically stalls over site infrastructure. Site upgrades can create roadblocks that cause delays, making the use of EVs unrealistic. Nate Rosenbloom, Head of Product and Business Development at OptiGrid, provides a practical playbook for the installation of Reservoir, OptiGrid’s battery-integrated charger for EV fleets, a solution that can clear the way to a seamless transition to EV.

For decades, energy systems have been designed as a collection of discrete components. A battery stores energy. A charger delivers it. A load consumes it. Each system performs its role, but interaction between them is limited. Power typically flows in a single direction, and coordination happens at the grid level, not within the system itself. That model is starting to change. The Problem with Today’s DC Systems As more infrastructure shifts to DC electric vehicles, battery s

At OptiGrid, we don't just build battery-integrated chargers; we obsess over every component inside them. That starts with the battery. Here are the most often asked questions about our choice of Lithium Iron Phosphate (LFP) chemistry. Q: What kind of battery is inside an OptiGrid charger? Every OptiGrid Reservoir DC fast charger uses LFP batteries with a total capacity of 180 kWh. LFP is a specific type of lithium-ion chemistry known for its exceptional stability, longevity

As fleets transition to electric vehicles, many operators encounter unexpected infrastructure challenges. Nikola Milivojevic, Chief Technology Officer at OptiGrid, answers the most common questions about grid readiness, power planning and what to do when the grid can't keep up.

Fleet electrification is accelerating, but the infrastructure supporting it is not keeping pace. Across the country, fleet operators are purchasing electric vehicles, committing to electrification goals and then discovering that the electrical grid at their sites cannot support the charging they need. At OptiGrid, we have built battery-integrated charging specifically to solve this problem.