SK E&S to juice up SF Giants' parking lot with EV chargers

EverCharge, a subsidiary of SK E&S, will install and maintain hundreds of EV chargers in the parking lot of Oracle Park.

An electric vehicle plugged into an EverCharge charger [SK E&S]

EverCharge, a California-based EV charging subsidiary of SK E&S, will supply hundreds of EV chargers to the San Francisco Giants baseball team.

The Korean company said Sunday that the two signed a strategic partnership with the Major League Baseball team to install chargers in the parking lot of Oracle Park, which will be open to the public.

SK E&S will offer all the infrastructure for the chargers and also the full service to maintain them.

There are around 80 home games annually at Oracle Park, with an average attendance of 30,000. Major music concerts and international forums are also held at the stadium.

The San Francisco Bay, where the stadium is located, has become the first-ever major American metro area where electric and hybrid vehicles comprised 50 percent of new car registrations as of March 2023.

“Our solution is designed to maximize the utilization of the charging infrastructure and make the charging experience efficient around the clock, both for public and private charging," said John Lin, senior vice president at EverCharge. “We look forward to providing Giants fans and the local community with dynamic, eco-friendly transportation resources as well as enabling advanced fleet charging at night in the future.”

Clean energy is one of the latest focuses of SK E&S, which entered the U.S. EV charging market by becoming the largest stakeholder of EverCharge in 2022.

In September 2021, it acquired 95 percent of Key Capture Energy, a New York-based energy storage company. A month later, SK announced an investment of up to $400 million in Rev Renewables.

BY SARAH CHEA [chea.sarah@joongang.co.kr]