Scaling Energy Storage: The Outlook for Battery-Backed EV Charging Infrastructure, Transportation, and Grid Integration
SQM Lithium Ventures and Blackhorn Ventures invite you to join an intimate conversation during SF Climate Week focused on the present, and future of energy storage. Join us for an interactive discussion highlighting customer case studies of Electric Era's next-generation EV fast charging station, industry perspectives on the stationary energy storage market, and the outlook for lithium batteries in a new political reality. The event will conclude with a networking happy hour.
5:00-7:30PM Monday, April 21st
Financial District, San Francisco
Speakers and panelists:
Quincy Lee – Founder & CEO, Electric Era
Melissa Cheong – Managing Partner, Blackhorn Ventures
Julia Grinshpun – Executive Director, J.P. Morgan
Mike McLenahan – Executive Vice President, Sparkfund
Robert Shepherd – Sr. Investment Manager, SQM Lithium Ventures
Jeff St. John – Chief Reporter & Policy Specialist, Canary Media
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SQM Lithium Ventures is the venture capital arm of SQM (NYSE: SQM), one of the largest battery-grade lithium producers in the world. The fund invests in innovative technology-based startups solving problems across the lithium value chain. SQM Lithium Ventures' global portfolio includes companies related to lithium mining and extraction, electric vehicles and charging, energy storage, recycling, and related technologies.
Blackhorn Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in companies transforming how we build, power, and move our world. Since 2017, Blackhorn has raised 3 funds focused on the connected industries of energy, transportation, real estate/construction and supply chain/logistics, which have been slow to digitize, have structural challenges with labor availability and productivity, and offer a significant decarbonization prize.
Electric Era‘s mission is to electrify and decarbonize transportation by building and operating battery-backed EV fast charging stations that transform retail parking lots into profit centers. Founded by SpaceX engineers, we've developed proprietary technology that achieves 98% reliability while reducing grid costs by 70%. Our turnkey solution streamlines the complex charging ecosystem, enabling deployment in months rather than years and creating new chargerside retail commerce opportunities. Electric Era is building the infrastructure backbone for the electric vehicle revolution.
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