“Why this Microsoft vet quit and launched an EV smart charging startup”—Geekwire

Some of the FlexCharging team convened for a meeting in Las Vegas in June. Employees, from left to right: Tyler Phillipi, Harold Shin, David Klein, CEO and founder Brian Grunkemeyer, Ken Nichols and Charles Martey. (FlexCharging Photo)

“In 2014, Brian Grunkemeyer was a Microsoft principal software engineer with a passion for fighting climate change. That year he bought a Tesla Model S and drove it from his home in Redmond, Wash. to San Jose, Calif.

‘On a road trip like that, you have a lot of time to think deeply about EV charging,’ Grunkemeyer said.

His realization? That if projections were correct, electric car charging was going to require a huge amount of power.”

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