ElectricFish

Market position

Positioned as a domestically built alternative to conventional DC fast charging installations that require trenching and grid upgrades, claiming savings of one to two years in deployment time and $100,000-$300,000 in costs. The company was one of a small number of startups granted access to national lab IP through the DOE Cradle to Commerce program, and research firm 451 Research initiated coverage of its use of battery energy storage to cut grid upgrade costs.

Battery-buffered architecture that requires only a fraction of the grid connection normally needed for DC fast charging, avoiding trenching and utility upgrades; two-to-four week order-to-commissioning timelines; integrated AI software for cost optimization and grid services monetization; licensed Argonne National Laboratory circuit board IP enabling bidirectional grid interaction; five issued U.S. patents; U.S. manufacturing.

Technology

The architecture decouples charging speed from the available grid connection: each unit charges an onboard battery of more than 400 kWh from a minimal existing low-voltage connection (as low as 30 kW interconnection) and delivers up to 400 kW peak continuous output across dual ports, with 250-999 VDC output and CCS/NACS connectors. Grid-interactive controls enable bidirectional power flow, outage backup, renewable integration and demand response participation. Software comprises Reef, a real-time charging station management and remote monitoring system, and Stargazer, an AI forecasting and optimization engine running at the edge and in the cloud. The company licenses a printed circuit board developed at Argonne National Laboratory on a non-exclusive basis, which supports bidirectional charging and lowers manufacturing cost, and has a cooperative research and development agreement with Idaho National Lab to test microgrid and grid-interaction capabilities. The company cites five issued U.S. patents.

Go-to-market

Direct sales to businesses and fleets, supported by pilots with utilities and public agencies (LADWP, Con Edison, National Park Service), national lab partnerships through the Department of Energy's Cradle to Commerce program, state and federal grant funding, product launch publicity at CES 2026, and channel deployment through partners such as U.S. Energy's Volt Vault portfolio.

Commercial and industrial site hosts, fuel retail and gas station operators, commercial vehicle and fleet operators, retail and commercial centers, utilities running demand response programs, and critical infrastructure or emergency operations requiring backup power, particularly at grid-constrained locations.

Geography

United States. Locations listed include Fremont, Sunnyvale and San Carlos, California, with a California manufacturing facility and deployments and pilots in Los Angeles, Detroit, Brooklyn and Black Rock City.

History

The company traces its origin to a hackathon, and its about page states it was founded in 2019. Its battery-integrated fast charger passed through several iterations and target markets: an initial plan to deploy public charging modules at gas stations shifted toward commercial and industrial customers with larger budgets before gas stations again became a stated focus of the 2026 platform launch. An initial pilot ran on the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power campus in early 2022, followed by a Detroit pilot in early 2023 demonstrating time-of-use shifting, and a 2023 summer deployment in Brooklyn with Con Edison and the National Park Service that was bid into the utility's demand response program. The company closed its first commercial-scale sale in March 2024 and opened a California manufacturing facility in mid-2024, partly funded by a California Energy Commission grant. In January 2026 it unveiled its Turbo Charge / 400squared platform at CES 2026.