Aug 16 2009
SnS Design, a woman-owned industrial design consultancy located in New York City, was selected to design The ChargeBar(TM), a plug-in power for electric cars manufactured by GreenlightAC of Washington, D.C.
GreenlightAC provides safe, reliable, and user-friendly recharging equipment installed at driving destinations and homes of electric vehicles (EVs) and plug-in electric hybrids (PHEVs) owners. GreenlightAC is committed to improving the environment by encouraging greater use of electric vehicles and plug-in electric hybrids.
"If it's easy for people to operate and recharge EVs and PHEVs, then more of them will be sold and manufactured, fewer fossil fuel cars will be on the roads, and the earth will be a cleaner place," said Max Brown, co-founder of GreenlightAC.
"It was essential that we design The ChargeBar so it was functional, yet user friendly. We found the designs and concepts from Nisha Sawhney, owner of SnS Design, to be exactly what we were looking for. She understood our objectives and was able to deliver a smart looking, functional product," continued Brown.
"I developed a sleek design with clean lines and a simple uncluttered user interface that reflected today's lifestyle," said Sawhney. The design stressed ease of use, user safety with unique socket lighting and power cord security systems to make charging simple, secure and safe.
GreenlightAC products are safe, cost effective, open-source (no user membership or proprietary technology required), and can be quickly and easily deployed. The ChargeBar(TM) is designed so that it fits cleanly and unobtrusively into commercial and institutional buildings, parking lots and homes or apartment garages.
GreenlightAC's ChargeBar will become synonymous with EV charging and will provide. EV owners with a reliable and widespread network of charging stations. "We designed it to appeal to a wide range of potential EV users and building and facility owners and operators," said Sawhney. She added that it accommodates both 120v and 240v charging. The unit has illumination on top and bottom to make it easier for the user to locate the ChargeBar in a dim environment.
David King, co-founder of GreenlightAC, added, "Our products allow PHEV drivers to go further and to more places - in essence, GreenlightAC extends the range of electric drive vehicles. Drivers will know that they can always find a safe place to charge their cars because our products will be in place throughout plug-in ready communities. Our goal was to make it as easy and convenient to use our charging unit as it is to use a gas pump. And with our GreenlightAC ChargeBar(TM) we believe we have succeeded in meeting that goal."
SnS Design offers a wide array of services from product design, packaging, graphics, and merchandising, to exhibitions. SnS Design is a NYC certified W/MBE (Woman/Minority Owned Business Enterprise). Clients range from fortune 500 companies to individual entrepreneurs.