{"id":252311,"date":"2024-06-09T06:36:51","date_gmt":"2024-06-09T06:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/why-kempowers-new-nc-charging-station-factory-actually-matters\/"},"modified":"2024-06-09T06:36:55","modified_gmt":"2024-06-09T06:36:55","slug":"why-kempowers-new-nc-charging-station-factory-actually-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/why-kempowers-new-nc-charging-station-factory-actually-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Kempower&#8217;s New NC Charging Station Factory Actually Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><em>Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News!<\/em><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p>Recently, Kempower invited me to attend the grand opening of their new factory in North Carolina. Normally, the journalistic thing to do is run out the door as fast as you can, get a story ready, and see who can get the story out first. But, I realized before the tour and the event was over that this wasn\u2019t going to be one of those kinds of stories. I managed to gather a lot of information about the Kempower system, and as the old biological neural network started chewing on all of this information, I saw that this story deserves a lot more context for readers.<\/p>\n<p>So, in this article, I\u2019m going to dive a little deeper into what Kempower\u2019s doing in North Carolina and, most importantly, explain why it really matters to the future of EV charging.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Not Just Another Charging Station&#8230;<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2024\/06\/09\/why-kempowers-new-nc-charging-station-factory-actually-matters\/\"target=\"_blank\">Read the full article originally published at cleantechnica.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! Recently, Kempower invited me to attend the grand opening of their new factory in North Carolina. 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