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Brightfield Featured on PBS Video Segment

The Asheville PBS affiliate station, UNC-TV featured Brightfield in a video segment. 

Brightfield has been working in The Collider innovation center. This unique organization in Asheville is set up to offer “opportunities for ‘strategic collisions’ between business and science.” They offer expertise in climate change solutions through collaboration.  One of those collaborators is the Innovate NC Asheville project. They use the town’s wealth of weather data to inform growth & development in the climate services industry. So of course, they wanted Brightfield featured in their video production. 

All this makes for an ideal match, as you will see in the video…

We are excited to be part of the “inclusive entrepreneurial ecosystem building around climate data” in Asheville. Watch for more Brightfield featured media spots as we continue to collaborate and grow. 

 


Brightfield is on the move.

Brightfield is on the move.

Brightfield secures Series Seed Round Investment!  See full article here.

From Asheville Citizen Times 6/22/16

Asheville Electric Car Charging Business Going Regional

Asheville doesn’t have an Uber or an Airbnb, but local business groups are working hard to create a similar startup that can go global.


Brightfield® Installs 18 DC Fast Chargers across North Carolina and Eastern Tennessee

Brightfield® Installs 18 DC Fast Chargers across North Carolina and Eastern Tennessee

Brightfield has installed 18 DC Fast Chargers across NC in Partnership with Nissan, NC Department of Transportation, eVgo, and the Clean Fuel Advanced Technology Project.

A network of Brightfield-owned DC Fast Chargers now exists in NC and TN!  Brightfield successfully installed units in Waynesville, Asheville, Charlotte, Greensboro, Hillsborough, Chapel Hill, Durham, Salisbury, Dallas, Wadesboro, Mathews and teh greater Knoxville area. These stations can charge any fast-charge equipped EV up in under 30 minutes—cutting edge technology spurring EV market growth.


Brightfield featured in Business North Carolina Magazine

Brightfield featured in Business North Carolina Magazine

Electric Avenue
Vehicle-charging stations remain scarce in North Carolina, but a surge may be nearing.

See full article here.

When Randy Talley drives up the Blue Ridge Parkway, he sometimes wonders whether he’ll have enough charge to make it home at night. Talley owns a Nissan Leaf, a plug-in electric vehicle with a range of about 90 miles on a single charge. It’s a fun ride, and he loves zipping around town in it, especially since an electric vehicle charging station is 400 yards from his office door. But a trip to the mountains, where charging stations are scarce, involves some risk.


Brightfield® Graduates from Inaugural ScaleUp WNC Class

Brightfield® Graduates from Inaugural ScaleUp WNC Class

Brightfield is one of 15 companies recently selected to participate in the inaugural cohort of ScaleUp WNC, an initiative spearheaded by AdvantageWest, the nonprofit economic development partnership for the state’s 23 westernmost counties.

ScaleUp WNC focuses on high-growth, small businesses that have been in operation in Western North Carolina for more than two years, and that have annual revenues between $150,000 and $750,000. The mission is to provide business owners with the education and support needed to grow their ventures in the region.


Brightfield® featured in Economic Development Video

Asheville, North Carolina, is an inspiring place to call home. Talented local business leaders and entrepreneurs across Buncombe County are creating and distributing innovative products that impact people throughout America and worldwide. Watch the video produced by the Asheville Buncombe Economic Development Coalition and featuring Brightfield:

Brightfield® presents at Kauffman Foundation’s 1 Million Cups

Brightfield® presents at Kauffman Foundation’s 1 Million Cups

Brightfield’s Co-Founder, Stan Cross, presented to a packed house at RISC Networks in downtown Asheville as part of the 1 Million Cups—a free, weekly national program designed to educate, engage, and connect entrepreneurs. Developed by the Kauffman Foundation, 1MC is based on the notion that entrepreneurs discover solutions and network over a million cups of coffee.


Brightfield® Co-Founder, Stan Cross, Writes Feature Article for WNC Green Building Guide

Brightfield® Co-Founder, Stan Cross, Writes Feature Article for WNC Green Building Guide

Here is an excerpt from the article written for the WNC Green Building Guide
We’re living in a time when concerns about energy security, climate change and global economic stability occupy our national discourse. We argue about where to drill, how to mine, how to fix the economy, what to do about a warming climate. Meanwhile, we realize the perils and costs of fossil-fuel extraction abroad and at home. We hold our breath as tar sands and hydraulic-fracturing exploration run rampant. We quietly wonder if all this wacky weather is the new normal. Perhaps we are beginning to perceive the complex interconnections that bind humanity’s fate with the health and vitality of earth’s ecological systems…
Read the full article here