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High-powered EV charger installations at motorway services increase by 51 per cent in last eight months
he number of high-powered electric vehicle chargers being installed at motorway service stations in England has hit a new high, figures have revealed. Data from charger mapping service Zapmap and breakdown assistance company the RAC show that 200 additional electric vehicle chargers have been ins...Read more -
More Than 40 New EV Charger Plants Coming To The U.S
The progressing expansion of the electric vehicle market and huge expectations about future growth have prompted massive EV-related investments in the U.S. Aside from new EV factories and a small tsunami of EV battery factories, there is also a significant wave of new EV charging equipment factor...Read more -
Ford is offering customers who buy or lease an EV a free home charger, installation
Ford Motor Co. is offering customers who buy or lease an electric vehicle a free home charger and complimentary installation through the end of the year, a program aimed at eliminating some of the perceived barriers consumers considering driving an EV might have. The offer starts Tuesday. The Dea...Read more -
EV Charging Is Finally Improving In America’s Worst City For Driving
Revel inaugurated on Thursday Manhattan’s first public fast charging station that will be open round the clock. The new station will have 10 stalls, with a maximum rated output of 320 kilowatts, equipped with both NACS and CCS connectors. Fast-charging options in NYC are limited, but thin...Read more -
Charging A Chevrolet Bolt EV On A Tesla Supercharger: Here’s How It Works
Owners of General Motors-made EVs finally gained access to Tesla’s expansive Supercharger DC fast charging network in the United States last week, which is great news for those long road trips, seeing how the number of Superchargers in North America exceeds 17,000. The list of cars that can be r...Read more -
UK Government To Support Rollout Of 1,000 New Charging Points In England
More than 1,000 electric vehicle charge points are set to be installed at locations around England as part of a wider £450 million scheme. Working with industry and nine public authorities, the Department for Transport (DfT)-backed “pilot” scheme is designed to support the “uptake of zero-emissio...Read more -
To drive change, we need the right EV chargers in the right place
When you picture the perfect holiday, what comes to mind? For me, it tends to involve a family road trip through rural Scotland using our electric car. But unfortunately, even in 2024, travelling to remote areas in an EV doesn’t come without challenges. We are making incredible progress with publ...Read more -
The best level 2 home EV chargers
When you brought home your shiny new electric vehicle, it came with a home charging cord. But that was likely a Level 1 charger, which can only add 2 or 3 miles of range per hour. Upgrading to a Level 2 home EV charger can triple that speed — or more — plus provide you with a multitude of optio...Read more -
Florida falls short on EV chargers. So why is state sitting on millions to install them?
Outside the Walmart parking lot in Hialeah, a chic young woman smoking a skinny cigarette waited next to her brand-new electric Porsche Taycan, painted an equally chic pale pink color the automaker calls “frozen berry.” The woman, who would give her name only as Tang P, had driven 25 minutes from...Read more -
Why public EV chargers almost never work as fast as promised
For EV drivers traversing the great state of Wyoming, the Smith’s grocery store in Rock Springs is an oasis. It’s just off I-80, there’s a Petco across the street, and it has six plugs promising to charge at 350 kilowatts. At that rate, a Tesla Model 3 could go from empty to full in the time it t...Read more -
All the news about EV charging in the US
The state of electric vehicle charging in North America is shaping up like the smartphone charging wars — but focused on much more expensive hardware. Right now, like USB-C and Android phones, the Combined Charging System (CCS, Type 1) plug is on a greater variety of cars. Meanwhile, Tesla’s plu...Read more -
Tesla May Finally Be Ramping Up Charging Adapter Production
In a post to the social media platform X, Tesla’s official charging account announced that the automaker’s upstate New York factory is ramping up NACS adapter production. Adapters will allow EVs from other automakers like Ford, General Motors and Hyundai to access Tesla’s Superc...Read more