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August 5, 2025 11 mins

SparkCharge bills itself as the “World's Largest Electric Vehicle Fleet Charging Network.” The company's mission is to revolutionize the EV charging industry by making charging faster, more accessible, and more sustainable. Through innovative technology and mobile solutions, SparkCharge says it seeks to empower businesses to charge anywhere, anytime — eliminating barriers to EV adoption and driving the world toward a cleaner, more electrified future.

Founder and CEO Josh Aviv details the company's growth trajectory and examines the demand for electric vehicles among Americans under the Trump administration. Josh speaks with Carol Massar and Matt Miller on Bloomberg Businessweek Daily.

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Bloomberg Audio Studios, Podcasts, radio news.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
You're listening to Bloomberg Business Week with Carol Masser and
Tim Stenovek on Bloomberg Radio.

Speaker 1 (00:14):
I'm Carol Master along with Matt Miller in for Tim
Stenevek on Bloomberg Business Week Daily on this Monday, actually
here with us for a couple of days. And this
is our gift to you. We know how much you
love cars.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
Thank you, and the EV space, thank you.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
You're welcome.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
I really do you know what? I'm part of a
convert now. Because I'm an old I don't have an
EV yet.

Speaker 3 (00:32):
I'm a gear no.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
Because I'm a gearhead. I like to work on my
cars myself. I like old American muscle. I like cars
to be loud and smell like gasoline and vibrate a lot.
But but lately I've been driving a ton of evs.
I drive a new car every week for my podcast
it's called Hot Pursuit with Hannah Elliott. And uh, just

(00:53):
the acceleration, the handling has gotten so much better. There's
so many more to choose from that it's not just boring.
Look Tesla's with spartan interiors that it's become almost a
preferred motor transportation for me. The one problem I have
still charging. The charging network is so bad.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
Yeah, so we have a guest just got a front
row seat to it. So let's bring them in. Josh
Aviv is founder and CEO of spark Charge. He's out
there in Massachusetts. Josh, good to have you here with Matt.
Get ready for a grilling, because it is Matt Miller.

Speaker 3 (01:26):
We're ready, We're ready.

Speaker 1 (01:27):
Listen. Your company reminds us that it is the world's
largest ev fleet charging network. Lay it out for us
where it is, how many who's using it? Give us
some size and scope.

Speaker 4 (01:39):
Absolutely, so, spark Charge is the world's largest off grade
evy fleet charging network. We have operations across all fifty
states and recently just launched in Canada and Mexico. What
makes us special is that we bring the power to
the fleet. So we show up with our off gride
mobile battery chargers and mobile power hubs. We can get
going without any grid connection, which means we get fleets

(01:59):
up and running and charging and as little as three
to seven days versus them having to wait as much
as two to three years for infrastructure to catch up.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
So you're the biggest off grid EV charging network.

Speaker 1 (02:11):
What does that mean mean?

Speaker 2 (02:13):
Meaning you're not the consumer chargers that are build up
in malls or next to a Starbucks. You're you're working
with like Ford pro kind of customers to charge their trucks.
So you're working with construction fleets, with plumbers, with electricians,
with anybody, with anybody who's pro fleet.

Speaker 1 (02:36):
Yeah, Amazon fleets.

Speaker 4 (02:37):
Like Amazon last mile delivery, rideshare fleets as well construction fleets,
rental car fleets, school bus fleets. Think about the problem
that consumers have where they're like, hey, I need to
figure out how.

Speaker 3 (02:49):
To charge one car.

Speaker 4 (02:50):
Fleets have the issue of how do I charge twenty
cars one hundred cars, and how do I do that
every day to keep my business going? And we step
in and we basically get them up and running quicker
than any other electrification option on planet ear. If we
can get a full fleet up and running in as
little as three days fully electrified and those cars out
on the road, Dude.

Speaker 2 (03:08):
That is such a great business. How did you start this?

Speaker 4 (03:14):
Yeah, So we started it when we realized that a
lot of fleets were waiting anywhere from two to five
years before the grid would catch up and allow them
to electrify. And we said, well, what happens if we
bring the energy to you, or if we get power
set up to where we can use our batteries to
get you charging almost immediately. What we realized is that

(03:35):
fleets still incorporate fifty cars. They'll incorporate twenty cars, but
then they'll have the issue of going to the grid
and saying, hey, we want to get these cars electrified,
but the grid can't handle the demand of all these vehicles.
And so we show up. We get them up and
going with f our mobile battery chargers, which means they're
charging from a giant battery connected to charging stations, and

(03:55):
then they're able to get up and running a lot quicker,
and then they also have a smoother service.

Speaker 3 (03:59):
Right, there's no such thing as grid.

Speaker 4 (04:01):
Delays or power outages, especially when it's being battery backed.

Speaker 3 (04:05):
All the energy is there.

Speaker 1 (04:07):
Wait, so you just kind of bring a massive battery
to places and that's how you do it.

Speaker 2 (04:11):
Is it on eighteen wheels? How do you transport that?

Speaker 4 (04:14):
Yeah, so some of them are trailer based, some of
them are container based. But basically we can get that
fleet set up operating off that battery and then they
can begin charging from those charging stations immediately. We also
have power hubs that use basically clean energy like hydrogen
and things like that that can also get a fleet
up and run in and quickly as well.

Speaker 1 (04:35):
That's what I was gonna So how do you charge
your battery? That's what I'm curious, like, where are you
getting the power and how do you make sure it's
cost efficient, especially when there's such a power grab right
now with all the AI going on.

Speaker 4 (04:45):
Absolutely so we're pretty much energy agnostic. So that means
that we can grab energy from solar, which a lot
of times that's what we'll do. We'll swap the battery out,
so we'll basically have a battery recharging from a solar partner.
We'll bring it in, we'll swap it out with a
resh battery, and then keep that fleet going twenty four
seven three sixty five. To the fleet, it looks like
limitless energy and we're managing all the power on the

(05:08):
back end, which means they never have to worry about
downtime or any operational efficiencies. We're constantly swapping that battery
out or hooking it up to solar to keep them going.

Speaker 2 (05:17):
I'm normally pretty skeptical, but I was like, Wow, what
a cool company, what a great idea, And now it
realized he's just a great pitch man. Also, right, I
didn't see until now that you got a million dollar
investment from Mark Cuban and Lorie Grinder on Shark Tank.
You've won various awards too, so you're great at selling
these businesses.

Speaker 1 (05:36):
Josh, what's your There has to be demand otherwise you
don't have a bill for sure.

Speaker 2 (05:40):
No, it's huge, and I mean, look at how well
ford Pro has done with that unit. It's just unbelievable
to growth. But what's your exit? I mean, are you
looking at IPO this company? Will you sell it to
a bigger company? How do you get Mark Cuban is
money out?

Speaker 3 (05:58):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (05:59):
I mean right now we're really just focused on execution.
We're having an amazing year, thank god, and we're really
seeing fleets come to us and say, hey, we want
to get going a lot quicker. We don't want to wait,
and so we're having an amazing year. I think for us,
the right exit will present itself. But right now we're
focused on scale. We're focused on making sure our customers
are happy and making sure that we're onboarding a new fleet.

(06:21):
Keep in mind, because we're not waiting on the grid
to catch up because we're able to service these fleets.
We're almost onboarding a new fleet every week. So you know,
while we don't come out there and say it, we're
probably one of the fastest growing ev charging networks out
there as well.

Speaker 1 (06:35):
Wait, execution, no offense. It's a pet pee for me
when an executive says execution, I don't know what that means.
It's like everybody dumps things into that way.

Speaker 2 (06:44):
We want to grow their business, you know, and they
don't want.

Speaker 1 (06:46):
To tell you what their exit is, So tell us,
I mean, what does that mean? What do you need
to do? What do you need to hit what targets
in order to really be successful and sustainable longer term?

Speaker 4 (06:57):
Absolutely, so for us, success is making sure that when
we get a fleet operational, we're getting them operational to
where they can actually grow their fleet. A lot of
times fleets will come to us and they'll say, hey,
I'm starting out with ten cars, but my goal is
to get to one hundred cars and the grid can't
keep up with that growth. Plus the time to install
is going to take me three to five years at
that number of vehicles. So for us, execution means, hey,

(07:20):
get this fleet up and running in three to seven days,
get them fully electrified. And then now that they're fully
electrified and they want to grow their fleet, let's grow
with them. Let's allow them to go from ten vehicles
to twenty twenty to fifty to fifty to one hundred
and see long term growth with that fleet partner over
a number of years as they continue to grow and operate.
And because we're getting them up and running quicker, we

(07:42):
want them to see a better ROI than if they
had to wait on infrastructure to catch up.

Speaker 2 (07:47):
All right, So we're speaking right now with Josh Aviv.
He's the founder and CEO of Spark Charge. If you're
just joining us out of Massachusetts, and I know that
you're focused on the proit commercial fleets, but you must
also love cars. I've been in a ton of evs lately.
I was in a Chevy Blazer ev SS. I was

(08:08):
in a Dodge Charger Daytona scat Pack, which I loved.
Right now I'm in a Cadillac Vistic, which I'm also
just really positively surprised by. What do you What do
you drive? What's your d D Josh?

Speaker 3 (08:22):
I drive a twenty twenty six Cadillac Vistic.

Speaker 2 (08:24):
The Vistic is pretty sick, isn't it. I was truly
oppressed by this vehicle.

Speaker 3 (08:29):
Love it.

Speaker 2 (08:30):
I didn't love the Escalade IQ as much, which is
the bigger ev It's it's a it's a giant It's
like a giant house on wheels. But the Vistick is
relatively snappy for a car that can still hold like
seven people. What do you do for your for your
charging when you're on the road, when you're going around,

(08:51):
you know, to make work trips and you can't just
be charging at home every night. What's your experience been
with the US consumer Charging Network?

Speaker 4 (09:00):
Yeah, so I'd say, you know, when it comes to
road trips and things like that. One of the things
that I love about the Vistick It's got I think,
you know, real world mileage roughly around three hundred and
thirty miles of range, and so I've been able to
go from basically Boston down to New Jersey and almost
all the way back on a single charge. I'm without
having to stop, and I love it.

Speaker 3 (09:21):
I love it. I love the super Crews on it.

Speaker 4 (09:24):
It's it's a it's probably, in my opinion, one of
the best EV's I've driven and I I've owned I
think close to ten EV's in my lifetime.

Speaker 3 (09:32):
So love that car.

Speaker 4 (09:33):
I think when it comes to you know, travel charging,
you know I've typically used the Tesla Supercharger network or
Electrify America, any of your standard EV charging networks.

Speaker 1 (09:42):
So what what do you make of the state of
kind of evs in America under this administration which seems
to have been pulling back.

Speaker 2 (09:49):
There's a lot of backlash. It seems like YEPES slows down.
But what is there any doubt in your mind, Josh,
that we're all driving EV's in ten years.

Speaker 3 (09:59):
There's no doubt in my mind. I think.

Speaker 4 (10:00):
Look, I think what it's going to come down to
is the economics of owning an EV Right. I think
that's really and I think that probably should have been
the focal point from day one. Right, Look how much
money you're gonna save when you're charging at home. Right,
Look at the time save not having to go to
the gas station. Right, Look at the experience of just
being able to plug in when you pull in to
your driveway. Right, I think that is really going to

(10:22):
come down to it. And if you think about it,
the low cost of maintenance. Right, I can't remember the
last time I went to a mechanic for an oil change.
I can't remember the last time I went to a
mechanic because.

Speaker 3 (10:32):
The engine light came on. I didn't know what that meant. Right.

Speaker 4 (10:35):
The low cost of ownership for an electric vehicle is
ultimately going to push more people to own electric vehicles.
And I think that is why in the next ten
years we are all going to be driving evs. Is
because they're going to save so much money to the consumer.

Speaker 2 (10:49):
Carol will switch when they drive themselves. She wants her
own personal Weimo at her house in Jersey City.

Speaker 1 (10:54):
I do love Weimo, but I do like EV. I
do like the idea of EV's. I don't want to,
you know, I'm going to learn about the environment. Hey, Josh,
stay in touch. Josh a Vive, founder in ce of
Spark Charge, joining us from Massachusea.

Speaker 2 (11:06):
You got to get him on my podcast now, Hot
Pursuit with Hannah Elliott.

Speaker 1 (11:09):
No, yes you could. Yeah, we'll share. We'll share
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