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University
Working together has one virtue: you find out very quickly who you can work with. We found out that we could — enough that after graduating we ended up at the same company, doing the same thing, only during working hours.
About
It started as a university project
We met at Warsaw University of Technology — over the projects you do after hours, because they are more interesting than the ones on the syllabus.
The first builds, back at university. An Arduino, ribbon cable and zip ties instead of an enclosure. 
The workshop hall at the university. A work top instead of a desk, an overhead crane instead of a ceiling.
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The charger that did not stay at university
One of those projects was about charging electric cars. Usually a project like that ends with a defence and stays on a hard drive. This one we kept building — first in the evenings, then in fewer and fewer evenings — until it stopped being a project and became a device somebody actually plugs into a car.
The workbench of those years: a laptop, a bench supply, Type 2 plugs and a controller in an ordinary junction box. 
A pedestal enclosure straight off the press brake — bare sheet metal, no paint yet. 
The first complete pedestal. It worked, but it was bulky. That is when we settled on the rule we still keep: the housing has to be as slim and compact as it can be without compromising anything.
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The decision made itself
Once the hardware started working in other people's hands rather than on a desk, the question of whether to build a company around it stopped being a question. That is how CHRG began.
The car built by the Hybryda student society at Warsaw University of Technology — charging from the new, narrow pedestal. 
The portable unit. On the road it lives in the boot; the adapter lets it hang on a wall like a wallbox.
About
What that means for you
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One team, the whole thing
The same people design the circuit board and write the software that runs on it. When something goes wrong there is nobody to blame and nobody to wait for — there is no line between the hardware vendor and the cloud vendor, because it is one company.
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A fix instead of a replacement
Because we know our own hardware down to the last resistor, most problems are solved by an update rather than a new unit. The same goes for new features: we do not wait for a manufacturer on the other side of the world to think of them.
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Open standards, out of common sense
Our chargers speak OCPP and our portal accepts other manufacturers' hardware. A closed ecosystem would suit us — and it would cost you your freedom of choice. You would be paying for our convenience.
The team
Engineers in electronics, firmware and software. The same team takes a device from schematic to the update that reaches the customer.