National Car Charging Named a 2026 Colorado Companies to Watch Winner!

Colorado-born EV charging infrastructure company recognized for growth, grit, leadership, & national impact!

DENVER, CO — National Car Charging (NCC), one of the nation’s most experienced independent EV charging infrastructure partners, has been named a 2026 Colorado Companies to Watch Winner, a prestigious statewide award recognizing high-performing second-stage companies that are fueling Colorado’s economy through innovation, growth, job creation, and community impact.

For NCC, the award is more than a shiny new trophy for the shelf. It is a celebration of a 14-year journey marked by grit, guts, reinvention, and a whole lot of hard-earned EV charging expertise.

Founded in Denver in 2011 by Jim Burness, National Car Charging began with a bold but practical vision: make EV charging easier for customers by pairing the industry’s best technology with real-world expertise, responsive service, and long-term support. At a time when EV charging was still a niche idea and most people were still asking, “Wait, where do you even plug those things in?” NCC was already doing the work.

What started as a Colorado company helping customers navigate a brand-new market has grown into a national EV charging infrastructure platform supporting more than 1,300 customers and more than 14,000 charging ports across the country.

“Being named a Colorado Companies to Watch Winner is an incredible honor,” said Jim Burness, CEO and founder of National Car Charging. “NCC was born in Colorado, built in Colorado, and shaped by the entrepreneurial, sustainability-minded spirit of this state. We are proud to grow a business that creates jobs, supports communities, and helps accelerate the transition to cleaner transportation across the country.”

National Car Charging’s greatest strength is its ability to turn a fragmented, fast-moving, often-confusing EV charging market into practical, high-performing infrastructure programs for customers nationwide. EV charging is not as simple as buying hardware and putting it in the ground. It requires strategy, smart procurement, the right technology, installation, software, activation, maintenance, repairs, upgrades, and long-term lifecycle planning.

In other words, EV charging is not just a plug. It is a program. That is where NCC shines.

What makes NCC unique is not just the number of chargers deployed, but the way the company supports the full lifecycle of EV infrastructure. From early-stage planning and hardware selection to installation, activation, service, maintenance, repairs, and upgrades, NCC helps customers avoid costly mistakes and build charging programs that actually perform in the real world.

As the EV charging market has matured, NCC has distinguished itself not simply as a reseller of charging equipment, but as a trusted partner at the intersection of infrastructure, procurement, technology, reliability, and customer support. The company works across both public and private sectors, supporting municipalities, state agencies, universities, school districts, fleets, multifamily communities, workplaces, hospitality groups, and other organizations navigating the transition to electric transportation.

And NCC’s momentum has not gone unnoticed.

The company has earned significant industry recognition from leading EV charging manufacturers, including being named one of ChargePoint’s top Value Added Resellers from 2018 through 2026. NCC has consistently ranked among ChargePoint’s top three VARs nationwide, often taking the lead spot, and was named ChargePoint VAR Partner of the Year in 2023 and 2024, with First Runner-Up honors in 2025.

That recognition is grounded in a long-standing relationship. NCC became ChargePoint’s first national value-added reseller in 2012 and has spent more than a decade helping bring reliable, networked EV charging solutions to customers across the country. Through that partnership, NCC has supported everything from early Level 2 deployments to larger, more complex public, workplace, fleet, and multifamily charging programs.

NCC has also built a strong strategic relationship with Kempower, one of Europe’s fastest-growing EV charging companies and a global leader in modular DC fast charging technology. Kempower recognized NCC as a top-performing partner, honoring the company’s role in accelerating the deployment of their advanced, high-performance DC fast charging solutions for customers across the United States.

Together, these awards tell a bigger story. They reflect NCC’s ability to combine best-in-class technology, brand-agnostic guidance, public-sector procurement expertise, deep infrastructure experience, and long-term service support into a scalable platform built for the next phase of EV charging.

NCC’s Colorado impact remains central to its story. The company has supported EV charging projects throughout the state, working with cities, counties, state agencies, universities, school districts, private businesses, and community partners. At the same time, NCC has expanded nationally through public-sector contracts, cooperative purchasing agreements, strategic manufacturer relationships, and a growing portfolio of charging, software, service, and infrastructure solutions.

“Colorado has been an ideal place to build a company at the intersection of clean transportation, infrastructure, technology, and public service,” Burness added. “This award is really a recognition of our entire team — their grit, expertise, responsiveness, and commitment to doing this work the right way.”

In addition to being named a 2026 Colorado Companies to Watch Winner, NCC is a multi-year Denver Business Journal award finalist and a multi-year Colorado Companies to Watch finalist. Together, these recognitions underscore the company’s sustained momentum, market relevance, and leadership in an industry that continues to evolve quickly.

As EV adoption grows and charging infrastructure becomes more central to transportation, energy, real estate, and public-sector planning, NCC is focused on helping customers move beyond simply installing chargers. The company is helping organizations build charging programs that are reliable, accessible, serviceable, and financially sustainable over time.

For a company that has spent more than a decade helping shape the future of charging, the Colorado Companies to Watch award is more than recognition of past success. It is proof that NCC’s momentum is real, its impact is growing, and its next chapter is already underway.

NCC was early. NCC stayed the course. And NCC is built to lead what comes next.

About National Car Charging

National Car Charging, LLC is a Colorado-based EV charging infrastructure company helping organizations plan, procure, deploy, operate, and maintain charging programs nationwide. Founded in 2011, NCC works across public and private sectors to support reliable, scalable EV charging infrastructure through strategic planning, hardware, software, installation coordination, maintenance, repair, upgrades, and long-term lifecycle support. NCC has helped more than 1,300 customers deploy more than 14,000 charging ports across the country.

About Colorado Companies to Watch

Colorado Companies to Watch is a statewide awards program recognizing second-stage companies that are driving economic growth, innovation, job creation, and community impact across Colorado. The program celebrates companies that have moved beyond the startup stage and are building momentum as meaningful contributors to the state’s economy.