![]() Today, CSI provides electrification solutions for commercial vehicles that can include advanced lithium-ion batteries as well as accessory systems such as cabin heating, battery cooling systems, electric air conditioning compressors, dc/dc converters, on-board chargers, electric steering pumps and electric air compressors for braking. The Livermore, Calif.-based company is named after Charles de Coulomb, a French physicist who made important discoveries in electricity and magnetism. In early 2019, CSI signed a long-term partnership with CATL, becoming a wholesale distributor and service center for its commercial vehicle battery systems in North America. My goal was to bring the over the high-volume, high-quality manufactured products that were available in China to really enable the whole electrification of commercial trucking in North America. These have given them unparalleled experience, having traveled over 25.7 billion miles. “They’ve already got 270,000 commercial trucks and buses on the road using CATL batteries. “The CATL product has been out there for about eight years, and they’ve got high-volume manufacturing lines in place,” said Mazaika. Since then, one of its focuses has been reducing the cost of its batteries. Based in Ningde in the country’s Fujian Province, CATL was founded in 2011 as a spinoff from a major supplier of batteries for consumer products. (CATL), one of the largest motive power battery designers and manufacturers in China. Mazaika reached out to Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. The biggest contributor to the higher costs was the batteries.” They’re being sold in relatively small numbers and it was slow to go mainstream. As a result, fleets will buy in small numbers, maybe five or 10 vehicles - a really big fleet might buy 50. ![]() “But the biggest challenge has always been that the cost of the commercial vehicles can’t meet the total cost of ownership goals the fleets have. “A lot of really good EV products have come out over the past five to ten years,” said Mazaika. (CSI) two years ago to work with original equipment manufacturers to help develop and manufacture reliable and affordable battery-electric commercial vehicles. To help fulfill that vision, he founded Coulomb Solutions Inc. David Mazaika saw an opportunity based on his 20 years of experience in the heavy-duty commercial vehicle space.
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