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…
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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…
See The Differences – Home Charging Tesla Model 3 Versus Model S
Not every Tesla EVSE is equal When you buy a vehicle from Tesla, be it a Model S, Model X, or Model 3, you get a portable EVSE with it. That’s basically a simple device that allows you to charge your car from several different types of electrical…
See The Differences – Home Charging Tesla Model 3 Versus Model S
Not every Tesla EVSE is equal When you buy a vehicle from Tesla, be it a Model S, Model X, or Model 3, you get a portable EVSE with it. That’s basically a simple device that allows you to charge your car from several different types of electrical…
Tesla Supercharger Tally Now Exceeds 10,000
The number of individual stalls in the Tesla Supercharging network now exceeds 10,000… several months behind the schedule, but still it’s the biggest such network by far in the world. Tesla announced that 10,000 spots would be available by …
DoE – U.S. Plug-In Electric Cars Consumed 2 TWh Of Electricity In 2017
According to the Office Of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy, plug-in electric vehicles consumed nearly 2 TWh (2,000 GWh) of electricity last year in the U.S. The amount of electricity consumed during charging increases every year as there are m…
This New EVI-Pro Lite Tool Makes Planning For Charging Infrastructure Easy
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) released a new the EVI-Pro Lite Tool to assist state and local governments to prepare for expansion of the charging infrastructure. The EVI-Pro Lite Tool is a simplified version of the Electric Vehicle In…
Electrify America names ultra-fast charging site contractors
Black & Veatch and SAI Group have been named as the two firms that will design and build Electrify America’s 484 initially planned ultra-fast charging locations in the United States. Some 300 of those locations are planned along highways to… Read More ›