Standard Charging is a community-first charging network headquartered in Albany, founded on the premise that free public EV charging is better marketing than any billboard, and a more honest civic contribution than any tax write-off.
We started Standard Charging because the EV charging map was being drawn the wrong way. The road home shouldn’t run through a per-kilowatt meter—it should run through your neighborhood, past the businesses that make a place worth living in.
— Cam, founder · Standard Charging
One: charging should not be where you make money on an EV driver. The charger is infrastructure. The relationship with the community is the product.
Two: drivers don’t need another app. The Autel chargers in our network work the same way a parking meter does, except the meter has been paid by your friendly neighborhood credit union. Plug in. Plug out. No account, no email collection, no upsell.
Three: the cities that host us deserve more than another logo on a sign. As the network grows, our goal is to reinvest in tangible local infrastructure projects and report on the impact clearly.
Standard Charging LLC is being built to consider community impact alongside financial sustainability, with public-facing reporting planned as the network grows. Our operating agreement memorializes the 5% Impact Fund commitment as a binding fiduciary duty, not a marketing promise. We are also working toward B Corp certification through B Lab.
We are structured to run lean. Standard Charging owns and maintains the network, while installation is performed by licensed Oregon electrical contractors. Sponsor services are built around practical deliverables: local visibility audits, approved content, search and directory cleanup, charger-use reporting, and clear monthly summaries a business owner can actually use.
Our near-term plan is to prove the model around Albany first: identify practical host sites, secure founding sponsors, install responsibly, and publish clear updates as real milestones happen. From there, we will review nearby Oregon communities based on host fit, sponsor support, electrical practicality, and driver usefulness.
If you’d like to be part of the story—as a sponsor, a site host, a partner, or a future operator in another city—we’d love to hear from you.