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The Electrician Who Never Came to Quote
Treehouse’s wager is that the hardest part of electrification is not the charger, battery or heat pump. It is the unruly journey from “I want one” to a permitted wire in the wall - and the company is trying to turn that journey into a product.
EO Charging Built the Plug, the Brain and the Pit Crew - Then the Grid Shifted Beneath It
The British fleet-charging specialist learned that the valuable bit is not the socket. It is knowing which van must leave at dawn, how much power the depot can spare and who answers when a charger sulks at 2 a.m. Its trip from a Suffolk pig shed to Pod and EDF is a sharp lesson in building - and financing - hard climate infrastructure.
Neha Palmer Is Building the Places Where Electric Fleets Get Their Power
The former Google energy strategist learned that scale begins long before a machine switches on. At Terawatt, she is turning land, grid connections and dependable operations into the quiet infrastructure of electric transport.
Pip Decker Learned Climate Policy in Washington. Then He Got a Truck License.
The Current co-founder has spent two decades turning climate policy into equipment that works - from Caribbean wind farms to electric semis, charging depots and a commercial driver's license of his own.
COIL Sold the Unsexy Part of the EV Boom - Making the Charger Actually Work
Anyone can sell a charger. COIL built a business around the permits, panels, trenching, software and phone calls required to make one useful - then sold that missing layer to Wallbox.
Terawatt’s $1.3 Billion Bet: Fleets Don’t Need More Chargers - They Need Somewhere Reliable to Plug In
Electric trucks are arriving faster than megawatts. Terawatt’s answer is a network of powered depots that turns years of permits, trenching and utility negotiations into one line on a fleet operator’s monthly bill.
Sean Burke
Sean Burke is the CEO and co-founder of Enteligent, a Morgan Hill, California clean-energy hardware company building what it calls the world's first solar-powered DC-to-DC EV charger. Before starting Enteligent in 2020, Burke spent more than two decades as an executive at HP, Dell, Flex, Nortek, Katerra and AMD, working on early notebook computers and the first dual-screen Android phone, and leading product teams credited with 260-plus patents. At Enteligent he is trying to strip the wasteful conversion steps out of charging by keeping power in DC form from solar panel to car battery.
Enteligent
Enteligent is a Morgan Hill, California startup building DC-to-DC power electronics that skip the wasteful AC conversion steps between solar panels, batteries, and the things that consume electricity. Its flagship products are the world's first solar-powered DC-to-DC bidirectional EV charger and the NMax module-level power optimizer for rooftop solar, and it is extending the same direct-current approach to AI data center racks. The pitch is simple arithmetic: keep electricity in DC form from generation to load and you lose less of it, which means faster charging, cheaper installs, and higher solar yields.
Merge Electric Fleet Solutions
Merge Electric Fleet Solutions is a Houston-based company that gives commercial fleets a clear, affordable, data-driven path to going electric. Launched in 2021 by EV industry veteran Glen Stancil and backed by Pickering Energy Partners, Merge handles the full journey - analyzing which vehicles to electrify, designing and deploying charging infrastructure, and operating it - through products like EV360 fleet analysis, PowerRail modular charging, and the all-inclusive FleetScription EV subscription. The pitch is simple: electrification simplified.
Glen Stancil
Glen Stancil is the founder and CEO of Merge Electric Fleet Solutions, a Houston-based company that helps fleet operators go electric without the headaches. A co-founder of EVgo and founder of eMotive Solutions, he has spent a decade in vehicle electrification, with his teams deploying more than 1,500 charging sites across 40 states and roughly $300 million in EV infrastructure. He pairs an electrical engineering degree from UT Austin with a Stanford MBA, and earlier did stints at McKinsey, NRG Energy and Reliant Energy. Launched in 2021 with backing from Pickering Energy Partners, Merge raised a Series A in December 2021 to make fleet electrification simple, affordable and scalable.
Flipturn
Flipturn is a New York-based software company building the unified control center for EV fleet and charger operations. Its hardware-agnostic, cloud platform connects to any OCPP-compliant charger, giving fleet operators and property managers real-time visibility into charger health, automated load balancing and demand-charge mitigation, driver billing with no app required, and AI-powered diagnostics. Founded in 2022 by Samsara and Stripe alumni Katie Siegel and Sashko Stubailo, Flipturn serves Fortune 500 fleets, municipalities, and multifamily operators, and raised an $11M Series A led by CRV in November 2024.
Katie Siegel
Katie Siegel is the co-founder and CEO of Flipturn, the New York software company building the control center for electric fleet and charger operations. An MIT-trained engineer who was among the first dozen builders at Samsara before its IPO and co-founded Impira (acquired by Figma), she now points her fleet-software expertise at the least glamorous, most consequential problem in electrification: keeping commercial EV chargers actually working. Flipturn has raised about $26.5M, including an $11M Series A led by CRV, and counts the City of Seattle, Purolator, Republic Services, and Swift Transportation among its customers.
GILLIG
GILLIG is a 135-year-old American bus maker based in Livermore, California, and the second-largest transit bus manufacturer in North America. Every GILLIG bus - clean diesel, CNG, hybrid, battery electric, and a coming hydrogen fuel cell model - is designed and assembled by U.S. workers for public transit agencies across the country.
Patrick Sullivan
Patrick Sullivan is the Co-Founder and CEO of EV Realty, a San Francisco-based company building grid-scale private charging hubs for commercial electric truck fleets. Drawing on 15+ years developing nearly 9 GW of renewable energy projects at firms including Clearway Energy Group, NRG Energy, and BrightSource Energy, Sullivan identified that the real barrier to fleet electrification wasn't the trucks - it was the real estate and grid access. EV Realty's 'Powered Properties' model acquires strategically located industrial sites near freight corridors, locks in large grid capacity, and offers fleets reserved or on-route DC fast charging up to 1.2 MW. The company has raised over $103 million, including a $75M growth equity commitment from NGP in September 2025, and operates or has in development five charging hubs across California.
Steve Kelley
Steve Kelley is a serial clean-energy entrepreneur and CEO of L-Charge, the Sunnyvale-based pioneer of off-grid ultra-fast EV charging for commercial fleets. With six successful startup exits and over two decades building energy and mobility ventures, Kelley co-founded Green Charge Networks (acquired by Engie), scaled InCharge Energy's revenues nearly tenfold, and in October 2025 took the helm at L-Charge to push its grid-free Charging-as-a-Service model nationwide. Under his leadership, L-Charge closed a $10 million funding round in January 2026, enabling fleet operators to electrify in weeks rather than months by bypassing grid bottlenecks entirely.