When Eli Harris co-founded EcoFlow Tech, his goal was to produce a green and mobile energy storage system that could serve as a mobile power station for consumers needing more than a phone charge.
“I wanted to take an industrial amount of power and put it in the consumer market,” said the co-founder and CEO of the company. “There were no portable batteries sized for consumers—only products like the fixed Tesla wall and the small batteries for phones.”
His idea was to put in the hands of consumers a portable battery system that could be paired with solar and used to power lights, camping equipment, small heaters, laptops, power tools, small refrigerators and many other consumer products for customers in the US and abroad.
Working with experienced battery engineers and with $10 million in backing from two of China’s leading supply chain and manufacturing companies, Harris and his associates developed River, a “personal grid” or mobile power station with a 412-watt capacity, the ability to charge 11 devices simultaneously, and a real-time power display. Ecoflow released the product earlier this week on Indiegogo and as of Thursday, had attracted more than $157,000 from 267 backers—523 percent more funding than its goal of $30,000 on Indiegogo.
“We broke $100K in six hours; less than 0.1% of campaigns in history have broken $100K in the first 24 hours and less than 1% of campaigns break $100K total,” said Harris. “It’s an exciting validation of the market demand for River and the new concept of personal energy storage.”
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