Can you find this sidewalk EV charger? It’s hiding inside the curb

A typical EV charger in the U.S. is a bulky, 6-foot-tall box in a parking lot. In Germany, a startup is rolling out a new type of charger that looks very different: Called the Curb Charger, it fits seamlessly inside a curb at the edge of a street.  

The Curb Charger “upgrades existing urban infrastructure and adds hardly any additional street furniture to cities,” says Felix Stracke, vice president of new mobility at Rheinmetall, the company that designed the charger. (Rheinmetall’s...