Symbium Makes Instant EV Charger Permitting Available Nationwide

Revolutionary Complaw® platform with 100% accuracy now accessible to any U.S. jurisdiction as America races to deploy 28 million charging ports by 2030

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — Symbium, founded by a Stanford-led team pioneering AI-powered Complaw® technology, today announced that its instant permitting platform for Level 2 electric vehicle (EV) chargers is now available to any jurisdiction in the United States. This breakthrough makes Symbium the first company to offer truly instant EV charger permitting with 100% accuracy nationwide, addressing the critical bottleneck hampering America’s transition to electric transportation.

The launch of EV charging permits is the ninth such instant permit type that Symbium has made available with comprehensive compliance checks in the last year.

100% Accuracy Through Deductive AI Technology

What sets Symbium apart from other AI-powered platforms performing building code or zoning analysis is its revolutionary deductive AI technology–a unique branch of artificial intelligence that delivers 100% accuracy with consistently uniform responses every single time. Unlike probabilistic AI systems that can produce varying or uncertain results, Symbium’s Complaw® technology provides absolute certainty in compliance verification, ensuring every permit meets all applicable codes without exception.

This technological breakthrough eliminates the guesswork and inconsistency that has plagued traditional permitting processes, giving building officials confidence that every approved project fully complies with local regulations while providing applicants with reliable, predictable outcomes.

The announcement comes at a critical juncture for national infrastructure. With only 204,000 non-home chargers currently installed and 28 million charging ports needed by 2030, permitting delays have emerged as the primary obstacle to EV infrastructure deployment. According to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, soft costs including permitting comprise more than half of total EV charger project costs, with traditional timelines extending from weeks to over a year (supra).

Proven Success in Forward-Thinking Cities

The City of Bakersfield, California, serves as a compelling proof of concept, the first City in the nation to adopt a myriad of instant permits from Symbium. The City has processed over 500 instant permits on Symbium with 100% accuracy since April. “The key here is we want an application that’s from the jurisdiction and for the jurisdiction,” said Pete Jackson, Chief Electrical Inspector for the City of Bakersfield. “In other words, this isn’t about just doing things faster. We actually increased compliance checks with this process.”

Christian Clegg, Bakersfield’s City Manager, emphasized the strategic timing: “Every once in a while, you come across a possibility that is a total game changer. A possibility that’s going to really put you on the mark. And that possibility for us is Symbium.”

Built from the ground up in collaboration with building officials, inspectors, manufacturers, installers, and code experts, Symbium’s platform transforms traditionally paper-heavy, weeks-long processes into instant digital experiences. The technology performs comprehensive compliance checks against all applicable building, electrical, and safety codes, delivering permits in 10–15 minutes rather than weeks or months.

The iPhone of Permitting Platforms

While some jurisdictions may choose to adopt a solar app, a reroofing app, an electrical panel app, and an inspection app (among other projects), Symbium represents the permitting equivalent of an iPhone–a unified platform capable of encompassing a myriad of different applications in a single, beautifully-designed public-facing service that completely reimagines the entire user experience of permitting.

Symbium is the only solution that supercharges existing permitting workflows with compliance checks across a potentially unlimited range of projects, starting in the clean energy and housing space. This comprehensive approach eliminates the need for multiple disparate systems while providing a consistent, intuitive experience for both applicants and municipal staff.

Addressing National Infrastructure Imperatives

The technology addresses urgent national infrastructure challenges. The Biden Administration’s $7.5 billion investment in EV charging infrastructure has been hampered by permitting delays, with only 31 NEVI-funded stations operational nationwide after two years. Meanwhile, private investors have announced $4.2 billion in charging infrastructure investments that risk stalling due to regulatory bottlenecks.

Geographic disparities compound the challenge, with rural areas having only 17% of residents within one mile of a public charger compared to 60% in urban areas. Streamlined permitting becomes essential for equitable infrastructure deployment as the nation needs to increase annual charger deployment by 17-fold to meet 2030 targets.

“Our Complaw® technology maintains 100% accuracy while dramatically accelerating the permitting process,” said Leila Banijamali, CEO and Co-Founder of Symbium. “What makes this particularly exciting is the scalability – each additional permit type requires only modest configuration resources, allowing cities to rapidly expand their instant permitting capabilities across multiple project categories while maintaining our signature accuracy and user experience standards.”

The Symbium platform currently supports Level 2 EV chargers, solar installations, energy storage systems, electrical panel upgrades, building-integrated photovoltaics, reroofs, HVACs and heat pumps, and many other clean energy and housing projects, with additional permit types continuously being added to serve the growing demand for clean energy infrastructure.

City officials who are interested in implementing instant EV charger permitting can learn more by visiting Symbium.com or by contacting Symbium: hello@symbium.com

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About Symbium

Symbium is the leader in automated compliance checks for instant or accelerated permit issuance across a range of project types in the clean energy and housing space. The company partners with local building departments to enable instant permitting, which is used by high volume and independent installers everywhere. Symbium is currently a resident at Autodesk and has achieved significant recognition and growth as a proud portfolio company of climate impact leaders such as Elemental Impact and RMI’s Third Derivative. The company was launched by a Stanford-led team and continues to receive numerous awards for its breakthrough tech and success with instant permitting from the Association for Corporate Growth, GovTech 100, the ALP Alain Colmerauer Heritage Prize, the Ivory Prize, BuiltWorlds Maverick, and the Hive 50.