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Walmart is putting a 400-kilowatt DC fast charger within 10 miles of 90% of Americans.

Sit with that number for a second.

Walmart. The most American retail footprint that has ever existed with its 5,200 stores, the parking lots where the whole country already ends up on a Tuesday.

Quietly, it's becoming the second-largest EV charging network in the nation.

17 states and climbing. Over 600 stalls where there were barely 300 a few months ago. Texas alone is getting 37 new locations!

Here's the part the headlines skip. Every one of those chargers is a machine.
Machines need maintenance.

So let us talk to the electricians for a minute here. You already own the hard part.
You understand load. You understand code. You respect voltage in a way people who've never been bitten by it never will.

EV charging isn't a new career.

It's a new dialect of the language you already speak fluently.

The trades have always split into two kinds of people. The ones who treat their skillset like a finished painting: done, framed, hung on the wall. And the ones who treat it like a toolbox. Something you add to every time the work in front of you demands a new tool.

The painting people watched the grid change and called it a phase, while the toolbox people are the ones Walmart's contractors are going to be calling.

Three hours. Ninety-nine dollars. Not a bootcamp, not a career pivot, not another certificate to frame. But rather entry into a market that is here to stay.

The infrastructure is going in the ground whether or not any of us are ready for it.
Walmart already decided.

The only open question is who's going to maintain these machines?

Why not you?

Every electrician in America is about to face the same question on a job site:
"Can you install and service the EV charger too?"

The ones who can say yes are booking the work.

The ones who can't are referring it out and watching the revenue walk away.

Here's what most people miss: EV charging isn't a different trade. It's an extension of the one you already have.

Load calculations. EVSE fundamentals. Charging standards. Safety protocols. The systems you already understand, applied to the fastest-growing infrastructure category in the country.

You don't need to start over.
You need the on-ramp.

That's exactly what we built.

SkillFusion Fast Track EV Charging Course. 3 hours. $99. 100% online.

The barrier to the EV industry is cost of discovery and we devour that.

Certification programs run into the thousands. Apprenticeships can run into years. Both ask you to commit before you know whether the work suits you, whether you find charging systems genuinely interesting or whether you’d rather be doing something else entirely.

That’s a tough way to make a career decision.

The Fast Track EV Charging Course exists for one reason: to let you find out first.

Three hours. $99. A real introduction to how charging systems work, what the industry is building, and what people in these roles actually do.

What it will do is answer the question worth answering before anything else:

Is this something you want to build a career around?

Three hours to find out is a reasonable trade.

Cars are quietly becoming part of USA’s energy infrastructure.

Hyundai Motor Group’s new AllDayEnergy platform isn’t simply another EV feature announcement.

It reflects where the industry is heading.

Vehicles that charge intelligently, power homes and support the grid.

Every one of those capabilities increases the technical expectations placed on charging infrastructure and the professionals responsible for keeping it operating safely and reliably.

The conversation has officially expanded beyond transportation.

It now includes energy management, grid integration, interoperability, and workforce readiness.

That’s a meaningful shift for the entire U.S. charging ecosystem.

Two numbers dropped this week that changed the Energy conversation.

$7,000,000,000.
$28,240,000,000.

One is what Brookfield paid for the largest battery storage developer in North America.

The other is what Tesla made in a single quarter while deploying 13.5 GWh of energy storage.

Neither number is a forecast. Neither is a target. Both are receipts.

This week's AMPED Energy Intel covers what those two numbers mean, what Arizona is building in response, what Microsoft just decided about its power supply, and what BNEF says the global installation rate looks like when you zoom out.

Five stories. The Energy industry has made its bets.
Link: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/7-billion-28-one-grid-money-has-decided-amped-energy-intel-ljrvc

One more charging app just disappeared.

That’s bigger than it sounds.

GM has integrated ChargePoint into Energy Pass, giving Chevrolet, GMC, and Cadillac EV drivers access to one of the nation’s largest charging networks directly from the apps they already use.

No need to switch between multiple charging apps.

No separate payment setup!

At many compatible stations, Plug & Charge means drivers simply plug in and charging begins automatically.

Every step removed from the driver adds another expectation for the infrastructure.

When charging becomes invisible…
Reliability becomes visible.

That raises the bar for the people installing and servicing USA’s charging network.

The experience is getting simpler.

The technology behind it is becoming more sophisticated.

That’s why workforce development matters just as much as infrastructure investment.

The future of connected energy depends on both.

Curious about what a career in Information Technology (IT) looks like in the energy industry?

Our Co-Founder & CEO, Elaina Farnsworth, recently joined Green Workforce Connect to discuss IT careers in clean energy, the skills needed to get started, how apprenticeships fit into the journey, and the career path that led her to where she is today.

Watch the interview to learn more about opportunities at the intersection of IT, cybersecurity, and clean energy.

Thank you to Green Workforce Connect and Interstate Renewable Energy Council (IREC) for the opportunity to share this conversation.

🎥 Watch the full interview: https://lnkd.in/ewqr9tZB

The future of energy isn't being built in silos.

It's being built through connected systems.

Solar generates.
Storage captures.
Electric vehicles become mobile energy assets.
The grid becomes smarter because every component communicates.

That's where the industry is headed.

SkillFusion exists to help organizations upskill the workforce and maintain the infrastructure behind connected energy.

If you're building what's next, you're in the right place.

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