Regarding the NCC deal, I think this is quite interesting background information on California’s public EV charging infrastructure.
Yesterday, January 31st, I spotted a post on an American political blog that touches on the current problems with public charging in that “promised land” state for electric vehicles:
And yet, despite all the money and enthusiasm from the state government, the Golden State’s charging network is basically a fiasco, as The Los Angeles Times reported just last week. Nobody even knows exactly how many public chargers the state has; the federal government thinks the number is around 40,000, while the state government thinks it’s more like 80,000. That’s a rather sizable difference.
The biggest problem, however—and this is something that every EV driver in California knows, and presumably most EV drivers in other states, too—is that there is clearly much more profit in building charging stations than there is in operating them. As a consequence, chargers are out of order all the time. According to the Times, between 20% and 30% of the state’s public chargers are out of service at any given moment. And since it’s usage that causes them to break, it means that the most-needed chargers are the ones most likely to be unavailable.
In other words, the current situation sounds abysmal compared to, for example, how one can nowadays travel in Finland relying on public chargers mostly without a worry.
And at the same time, it sounds promising for Kempower 
It seems that Kempower’s reliable chargers (+ cloud infra to facilitate operations) are truly needed in California and more generally in the U.S. It brings to mind the podcast comments I posted to this thread last year:
I think this [Kempower] could be the savior to America that we’re looking for. We really need the help here, our infrastructure has been terrible.
The LA Times story linked in the blog is also not behind a paywall:
I feel like comforting the EV drivers there: the cavalry is on the way. 
Hopefully Kempower and NCC get the West Coast deliveries and installations underway quickly.