Ask anyone what kind of fuel their next car will take, and you’ll likely get one of three answers: regular, premium, or diesel. Ask that same person what kind of charging an electric car takes, and you’ll probably get a blank stare. Ask a salesperson a…
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Volkswagen Uses Unique Rapid Charge For I.D. R Pikes Peak
Volkswagen Motorsport overcomes obstacles in developing a rapid-charge strategy for competing in the historic hill climb. The Broadmoor Pike’s Peak Hill Climb is a 12.4-mile, 156-turn course in Colorado. Racers start at nearly 9,400 feet above se…
VW’s Electrify America Teams With Envoy For Electric Car Sharing
Electrify America (Volkswagens’s subsidiary) proceeded forward with several new projects in the Sacramento region. The company partnered with Envoy, a community-based car sharing platform and the City of Sacramento to launch: two new car sharing …
Tritium Looks To Lead Fast Charger Segment With Latest Investment
Australian company Tritium seems to be taking the European fast charging market by storm. Its new EU headquarters was launched in the Netherlands. Tritium is making solid progress in North America too, but the 20% market share in Europe has taken in ju…
BMW Introduces Factory-Fitted Wireless Charging For 530e iPerformance
BMW, as promised a few years ago, finally introduces wireless charging as a factory-fitted option to the market. At first, the 3.2 kW system with 85% efficiency over the ≈8 cm gap will be offered for the BMW 530e iPerformance plug-in hybrid. Read Also …
Smart Grid Will Allow 170 UPS Electric Trucks To Charge Without Costly Upgrades
UPS’s London fleet of electric delivery vans increased from 65 to 170 without an expensive upgrade to the power supply grid. Because simultaneous charging of so many vehicles exceeds the site’s capabilities, UPS decided for a smart grid man…
EVgo Upgrades Fast Charging Stations To CHAdeMO & CCS Combo
EVgo, which is the largest commercial fast-charging network in the U.S. with over 1,000 chargers, is upgrading its stations to make them compatible with all models of electric cars. In the most recent project, at 21 popular fast-charging stations in ke…
VW & Siemens Team Up For Long-Haul Electric Trucks
Siemens, together with Volkswagen’s subsidiary Scania got the green light for a research project with heavy goods vehicles using overhead power lines on public roads in Germany. The idea is to enable zero-emissions, long-haul travel by using an o…
How About A Pop-Up Station For On-Street Charging?
UK-based Urban Electric Networks developed this unusual pop-up charging station called UEone for on-street charging. The UEone’s special feature is that it retracts underground when not in use to minimize the impact on the urban environment. Elec…
Meet gulplug’s P-Plate – A Self Plug-In Charging Station (w/video)
A French company by the name of gulplug is developing a new approach to a convenient electric car connection for charging – meet the P-Plate. The P-Plate is kind of a self plug-in system with 40 centimeters of self-adjustment with magnetic guidan…