Australia’s Tritium Makes a Splash in US EV Charging Market

If you’re an EV enthusiast or follow EV news, it’s likely you have heard about Tritium’s recent visit to the White House at the request of President Biden. This is just one of the many impressive accomplishments made recently by the company, a global developer and manufacturer of direct current (“DC”) fast chargers for electric vehicles based in Brisbane, Australia.

More specifically, Tritium designs and manufactures hardware and software to build advanced and reliable DC fast chargers. These chargers readily survive harsh conditions, and look good as well. Tritium is well known for its innovation, and support of its customers throughout the globe.

Much to the chagrin of their significantly larger competitors, Tritium is getting a lot of attention lately. It doesn’t come without effort. The company, especially its small Americas team in Los Angeles, has been tirelessly working to promote its events and news. These efforts have paid off in a very noticeable way.

New Tritium listing on Nasdaq Stock Market

In February, Tritium CEO Jane Hunter rang the Nasdaq closing bell in honor of Tritium’s recent listing as $DCFC on the Nasdaq exchange in New York’s Times Square. A large group of Tritium employees and executives attended the exciting event.

Tritium visits White House, announces new US manufacturing facility

Also in February, the company visited the White House, a legendary accomplishment. On February 8, Reuters reported Tritium’s meeting with President Biden. According to Tritium, their new plant will produce up to 30,000 EV chargers per year. The facility will create 500 local jobs. Production is scheduled to start in the third quarter of 2022.

Biden announced that the White House will roll out an allocation of $5 billion in federal funding to all states for electric vehicle chargers.

Tritium’s upcoming events for Spring 2022

Tritium’s team and management are expected to participate in the following events:

• 34th Annual ROTH Capital Partners Conference, March 14-15

• Piper Sandler Virtual EV Charging Day, April 5

• CGS-CIMB/Raymond James Technology and EV Conference, April 8

• Advanced Clean Transportation (“ACT”) Expo, May 10-12

Tritium’s leadership team

Jane Hunter, Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director

Dr. David Finn, Founder, Executive Director and Chief Vision Officer

James Kennedy, Founder, Executive Director and Chief Technology Officer

David Toomey, Chief Revenue Officer and Head of Corporate Development

Michael Hipwood, Chief Financial Officer

Glen Casey, Chief Operating Officer

Mike Calise, President, Americas

On March 7, the company announced that Glen Casey was appointed as the Company’s new Chief Operating Officer after serving as Tritium’s Interim Director of Global Operations since May 2021.

Tritium’s history

The World Solar Challenge is an event for solar-powered cars. The solar cars drive 3,000 km through the Australian outback. In 2013, the event was re-branded as the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge.

In 1999, team SunShark took third place at the event and won the GM Sunraycer Award for Technical Achievement. Team SunShark members at the time were Dr. David Finn, Dr. Paul Sernia, and James Kennedy. The trio went on to become the founders of Tritium in 2001.

In the early days,  the company operated as a micro-business. One of its first products was the Gold Controller, a product which was used in the SunShark vehicle and is still manufactured and sold today.

For more information about Tritium, visit tritiumcharging.com.