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New Beta App Gives Access to Growing Network of Electric Vehicle Charging Stations
The eVTOL aircraft developer is developing the recharging infrastructure needed to make electric vehicles viable and will make facilities available to operators of multiple vehicle types via a mobile app.
Beta Technologies is installing a network of charging stations for electric ground and air vehicles.
Beta Technologies is installing a network of charging stations for electric ground and air vehicles. (Image: Beta)

Beta Technologies has launched a mobile app that provides access to the electric vehicle charging stations it is installing across the U.S. The start-up, which is developing the Alia 250 eVTOL aircraft, says that the new Beta Charge facilities are be able to support other makes of electric aircraft and also electric road vehicles.

In May, Beta used some of the initial 10 charging stations when its Alia prototype completed a 1,400-mile multistage trip from Plattsburgh Airport in upstate New York to Bentonville, Arkansas, with seven stops along the route in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri. Earlier this year, when announcing a further $375 million in funding for the Alia program, the Vermont-based company said it had started the installation or permitting of 65 charging stations, with  “hundreds” more in the planning stage.