North Carolina leaders break ground at first multimodal charging station

North Car­oli­na took a step fur­ther towards sus­tain­able avi­a­tion with a ground break­ing at the site of the State’s first mul­ti­modal elec­tric air­craft charg­ing sta­tion, designed by BETA.

To be installed at Raleigh Exec­u­tive Jet­port in San­ford, and slat­ed to be oper­a­tional by the first quar­ter 2024, it will sup­port elec­tric air­craft, cars and trucks at the air­port.

“Invest­ing in sus­tain­able avi­a­tion is a clear next step for North Car­oli­na as we con­tin­ue to lead in aero­space and mul­ti­modal trans­porta­tion inno­va­tion,” said state Trans­porta­tion Sec­re­tary Joey Hop­kins.

The site will include a Level‑3 fast-charge Charge Cube, which will charge elec­tric air­craft in under an hour, and an accom­pa­ny­ing Charge Cen­ter for crew rest time. It will also include a Lev­el 2 car charg­er in the air­port’s park­ing lot. This project required a sig­nif­i­cant expan­sion of the apron where the charg­ing sta­tions would be locat­ed.

“Inno­va­tions like this BETA-designed charg­ing sta­tion and elec­tri­fy­ing trans­porta­tion are real pri­or­i­ties for us,” added Bob Heuts, direc­tor for Raleigh Exec­u­tive Jet­port.
“Since this air­port was built more than two decades ago, it has been our his­to­ry to be on the lead­ing edge of impor­tant trends.”

The event also fea­tured BETA’s ALIA con­ven­tion­al take­off and land­ing elec­tric air­craft, which stopped in North Car­oli­na dur­ing its 1,500-mile flight down the East Coast, which orig­i­nat­ed at BETA’s head­quar­ters in Burling­ton, Ver­mont. The tour is being coor­di­nat­ed by the US Air Force pro­gram AFWERX.

“The future of trans­porta­tion is elec­tric, and as we look to make this new tech­nol­o­gy a wide­spread real­i­ty in avi­a­tion, for­ward-lean­ing part­ners and invest­ment in infra­struc­ture will be crit­i­cal,” con­tin­ued Blain New­ton, BETA’s COO.

“We have cer­tain­ly found that in North Car­oli­na where we have been able to fly our all-elec­tric ALIA air­craft into Raleigh Exec­u­tive Jet­port from Burling­ton, Ver­mont, and charg­ers like the ones we will install here will pow­er these types of mis­sions in the future.”

Last week, fixed base oper­a­tor Shore­line Avi­a­tion part­nered with BETA Tech­nolo­gies to install Mass­a­chu­setts’ first-ever pub­lic access elec­tric air­craft charg­ing sta­tion at Marsh­field Munic­i­pal Air­port (GHG).

Shore­line Avi­a­tion part­ners with BETA Tech­nolo­gies on Mass­a­chu­setts’ first elec­tric air­craft charg­ing sta­tion