I first heard about Ekoenergetyka while watching an Out of Spec Reviews video covering EVCS in 2025. Kyle was looking at their chargers, and I remember thinking the hardware was interesting. Rangeway wasn’t what I was thinking about at the time, but the name stuck with me.
Later, Chad Dickens, one of their account managers, reached out to me and asked whether I had selected a hardware company for Rangeway. I hadn’t. I had a few manufacturers in mind and was particularly interested in distributed charging.
Chad told me about the platform they were developing and sent over some material. It fit the direction I was considering, with an option that caught my attention: screens we could use to communicate with drivers.
The more we talked, the more I wanted to understand the company behind the equipment.
Chad lives close to me in Northern California, so we met a couple of times, in person, for lunch. When I was in Southern California, Stu Campbell, Head of US Sales, invited me to their Irvine office. I met more of the team, including US CEO Konrad Konczewski, and got to see the hardware firsthand.
They were open, welcoming, and genuinely interested in what we were trying to build. Over the course of those conversations, Chad and Stu became people I could call and talk through ideas with. Today, I consider both of them good industry friends.
That relationship gave me the opportunity to get past the sales material and ask questions about equipment we would be depending on every day.
What I Saw Inside the Charger
When Stu showed me an Axon charger in person, he wanted me to notice what was inside it. He told me that more than 90% of its internal parts were manufactured in-house at Ekoenergetyka’s factory in Poland.
That stood out to me. If something goes wrong with a charger, I want the company supporting us to know that equipment inside and out. Having so much of the manufacturing under its own control gave me confidence in Ekoenergetyka’s ability to diagnose problems and support repairs.
They were also willing to train the field service company we chose. That was important because the people maintaining our chargers need to understand them, and I wanted the manufacturer involved in making that happen.
The offer we discussed included a five-year warranty in the price of the charger. It wasn’t something we had to purchase separately. The pricing was competitive, and the software was straightforward to use.
Taken together, those details made it easier to picture what working with them would look like after the equipment was installed.
The Weather Is Part of the Decision
Learning about Ekoenergetyka’s work with IONITY also helped me understand the company’s experience. They were already supplying equipment to a major European charging network, with installations in countries including Finland, Croatia, and Slovenia.
I was interested in what that meant for the places where we might build.
Northern Maine and Canada are very different environments from southern Florida or the Southern California desert. When I’m choosing hardware for Rangeway, all of those conditions are on my mind. I don’t want our equipment choices to limit us to places with mild weather.
Ekoenergetyka publishes an operating range of minus 31 to 131 degrees Fahrenheit for its Axon Easy line and describes the environmental testing behind it. That was a meaningful part of my evaluation, alongside its experience supplying charging equipment in Europe.
A driver’s expectations don’t change because the temperature does. They still need to charge their car and continue their trip. We need to choose equipment suited to the conditions, then support it properly once it’s in the ground.
Bringing Hospitality to the Charger
The screens kept coming back into the conversation because I could see ways to make them useful to the person charging.
Someone visiting the area might appreciate a nearby point of interest or a local business worth stopping at. Someone new to EVs might need a little guidance. We can put useful information in front of them while they’re at the charger, rather than making them search for it or call support for something we could have explained there.
We’re also exploring ways to connect drivers with food, retail, and services at the location directly from the charging space.
There is advertising potential, of course. But I don’t want the screen to be there only because we can sell space on it. I want it to help people use the location and enjoy their stop.
That is the same thinking behind the driver’s lounge. We’re paying attention to what someone needs while they’re with us, including before they walk through the door.
I wanted best-in-class hardware for Rangeway, and I needed to understand what would support that ambition in practice. With Ekoenergetyka, I could see the equipment, get to know the people behind it, and discuss how we would maintain it and use it to serve our guests.
Those conversations are why we chose them.
Whether it’s snowing outside or the middle of a desert summer, the experience we’re working toward is the same. You arrive, plug in, and feel comfortable stepping away from the car because you trust that the charging is being taken care of.
That confidence is part of what we want Rangeway to offer.
