Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2023 19:45:11 +0000
In a couple of news releases, Hyundai and Electrify America announced free charging for new Ioniq 6 owners and Hyundai told us more about an important Ioniq 6 safety feature. Let’s take a look at both of these announcements! Free Charging For Two Years Electrify America has announced a partnership with Hyundai, offering all-electric IONIQ […]
Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2023 17:20:08 +0000
One of the big “gotchas” the anti-EV crowd tries to throw at EVs is that they’d fail you in a hurricane evacuation. I’ve covered this before, repeatedly, but no matter how many times we bust the myths and garbage surrounding it, the lie just doesn’t go away. Like other right-wing memes in Florida, it’s even […]
Credit to Author: Jo Borrás| Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2023 13:00:42 +0000
If you’re in the business of selling cars, Splitvolt can help you do it right.
Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2023 12:32:57 +0000
As we’ve explained before, the future isn’t as bright for CHAdeMO cars as it is for CCS cars. Electrify America isn’t building any new CHAdeMO stations. Infrastructure Bill funds require a station have a minimum of four CCS stations per site, spaced roughly every 50 miles along major highways. Some of these stations will probably […]
Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2023 15:04:20 +0000
What can be done to minimize EV’s impact on the grid? A recent MIT study concludes that coordinated BEV charging is a potential tool for mitigating the “duck curve” and the need for other storage.
Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2023 02:21:32 +0000
SparkCharge recently announced an important service the company is offering, but before I get to its solution, let’s talk a bit about the problem. Getting Started With EV Charging Can Be Tough For Fleets Installing an EV charging station can be expensive and take a long time to get started, especially for commercial fleets. Electricity […]
Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2023 03:57:41 +0000
Everyone, their mother, and their dog can see that the auto industry is electrifying. That includes oil companies (like Shell) and gas stations & convenience stores (like 7-Eleven). Regarding the latter, the news this week is that 7-Eleven has launched its own EV charging network! The name of that charging network is 7Charge. The first […]
Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2023 00:51:51 +0000
Shell will, more likely than not, have big challenges staying anywhere near its current size as the world transitions to. electric vehicles. But it sure is building a big foothold in the EV charging realm so that it at least has that diversification offshoot to profit off of. For the past several years, Shell has […]
Credit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2023 19:14:56 +0000
A recent report from Ergon Energy highlights the need for electric vehicle driver encouragement to charge intelligently to protect the grid. CleanTechnica has published many articles about grid resilience and EV charging installs. In my ignorance, I did not realise the complexity of the issue until I was contacted by Ergon and asked to identify […]
Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2023 15:01:19 +0000
It’s easy to assume that Level 3 charging is all about long-distance trips. This is because DC fast charging stations are uniquely positioned to meet the needs of drivers who are planning such trips. As opposed to the slower Level 2 chargers, DC fast chargers can deliver up to seven times more power and fill […]