Last Day at ACT Expo 2025 and some more exciting developments to report!

Vikram Mehta

4/30/20251 min read

Today, April 30, 2025 marks the last day of ACT Expo 2025 and is proving to be another excellent day for NeXTnet.

This morning, we engaged in a number of meaningful conversations with end users and potential partners. Amongst the long list were the following: Daimler Trucks, Rocsys, Clover Sonoma, Sonatus, Mitsubishi Electric Automotive America, TSI, TriMech, E2Energy, Rapidise Inc., ChargeTronix, Greenlane, KJ Transit, Wevo, Isuzu and Voltera Power.

Just this past lunch hour, we had a very exciting contingent of end users from Santa Clara County, the County of San Francisco and San Joaquin County, each of whom are facing problems with their EV charging infrastructure. As first responders during disasters, they often face situations where their EVs have failed to charge overnight due to temporary power outages or poor network communication between various components. This is a major problem, not just for counties and first responders, but for the industry as a whole.

After we explained what ANNA does, we were invited by the County of Santa Clara (our home turf!) to do a proof-of-concept to demonstrate how we can solve this problem. Santa Clara County alone has 58 locations where their EVs charge. We're very excited about this POC opportunity, which I am confident will end up delighting the county and converting them to a customer.

No sooner had our visitors from the three counties left our booth, in walked a top executive from Voltera, a company who is standing up charging facilities for autonomous rideshare vehicles around the country; and he too immediately recognized the power of ANNA and has invited us to speak with them ASAP.

And just as the conversation with Voltera's executive concluded, in walked a top consultant from GreenPort Energy Solutions, one of the country's premier consulting organizations advising EV charging service providers, fleet operators, and ports on autonomous EV charging. He was also very impressed with the solution we've put together and the power of ANNA.

Yet another strong indication about the power of ANNA!