grid electricity, and we want to get that to them through these electric vehicle charging systems. reporter: new york may not be the best home since the city has so few electric vehicles but there are plans to put the concept out there elsewhere. so the future of these is not necessarily in somebody s backyard but maybe used in a park setting, in a commercial setting? exactly. the whole ev charging infrastructure market is really taking off right now, and a lot of manufacturers are putting out different types of ev chargers. almost to a fault there hooked up to the grid. so we either want to be able to provide our clean electricity through the grid through those chargers or just to do it directly off of the grid like this. also this is very handy for places where there have been disasters. haiti, japan, places like that and lesser developed countries. reporter: the solar-charging station is expected to save thousands of dollars in gas and electricity costs. of course, it has a lo