San Francisco-based Stable, which analyzes electric vehicle charging usage for prospective charging site locations using proprietary prediction software, has been selected by GreenCore EV Services to inform where the company plans to locate and build several thousand Solar-Powered EV Charging Plazas by the end of the decade.
Volvo Cars is integrating and testing a new wireless charging technology over a three-year period using a small fleet of fully electric Volvo XC40 Recharge cars and charged wirelessly at stations in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Qmerit, a provider of turnkey implementation solutions for electric vehicle (EV) charging and other electric-powered technologies, and Fermata Energy, a vehicle-to-everything (V2X) technology services provider, today announced a new partnership to support acceleration of mainstream EV adoption and V2X technology.
The Ford Charge Station Pro, which is the foundation of Ford’s Intelligent Backup Power used with the upcoming F-150 Lightning in the event of a power outage, has been priced at $1,310.
EVgo Inc. announced a commercial agreement with Toyota Motor North America, Inc. (Toyota) to provide drivers of the new Toyota bZ4X battery electric SUV with complimentary charging at EVgo’s nationwide network of public fast chargers for one year.
Siemens unveiled a new sustainable, EV charging concept structure designed for electrifying fleets and high demand charging applications at scale. Their new VersiCharge XL concept was created to electrify new or existing parking lots and building structures quickly and efficiently by using a modular, scalable design made in partnership with Nexii Building Solutions (Nexii) using their proprietary, sustainable building material with low carbon footprint.
Regional and the major national and global convenience store chains are beginning to build out their charging networks at the store locations. Later this decade, however, one executive thinks they may expand beyond their stores to providing charging at workplace and other locations.
Roughly 40 million US urban households do not have convenient access to home charging due to lacking a garage, carport, or driveway. itselectric, a Brooklyn, NY startup hopes to help solve this challenge with its curbside charging pedestal and unique business model.
At 97% uptime, on any given day, in theory 15,000 DC fast chargers out of the proposed 500,000 might not be available in 2030.
In March 2021 the AAV2G (Advanced Australian V2G) project was kicked off with a small budget of AUD 1.2 million (USD 860,000) from the Australian Government. The challenge was to retrofit an existing series produced light-duty EV van to bidirectional power flow and implement onboard metering capabilities to turn the EV into a potential energy wallet.
of them (64%) included some variation of “EV charging station” as an option in their amenity search filter. Of the 5 travel sites that did not include an EV charger filter, 3 were the popular Hotwire, Priceline, and Trivago.
While the International Energy Association (IEA) has recommended on a European level a ratio of 10 EVs to 1 charging connection, my assessment is that at least for the next 5-7 years, a ratio of 15-25 to 1 will in fact meet demand in most markets.
