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Some EV Drivers Were Thankful For NACS Adapters This Thanksgiving

December 3, 2024 admin clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles, electrify america, ev road trips, plugshare, rivian, tesla superchargers, tesla supercharging

Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2024 04:56:08 +0000

About a year ago, I wrote an article warning people to stay away from Electrify America’s Quartzsite, Arizona station. Why? Because busy holiday weekends have been getting worse and worse. With all of the traffic that’s constantly on the I-10 corridor between Los Angeles and Phoenix (not to mention all … [continued]

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Electrifying the Mountain

February 7, 2023 admin Australia, clean transport, Electric vehicles, ev charging, ev charging stations, plugshare

Credit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2023 04:20:32 +0000

In the hot and humid summer days, Queenslanders like to head to the beach or to the mountains to seek cooler, higher ground. We chose the higher ground in the Gold Coast hinterland, Mount Tamborine to be precise. We also wanted to check out progress in electrifying the mountain since our last visit in 2019 […]

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What A PlugShare Score Really Means (& How It Could Be Better)

January 21, 2023 admin clean transport, Electric vehicles, ev charging, plugshare

Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2023 16:15:23 +0000

There’s been a lot of controversy recently about Electrify America’s charging stations. Sadly, many of them have multiple stalls down, strange startup problems, dead screens, and other issues that make charging tough or impossible in some cases. Ideally, you’d just pull up and plug in and not worry about things, but sometimes you’ve to to […]

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Can People Not Be Drama Queens On Plugshare? (Plus, Can Electrify America Not Leave People Up The Creek Without A Paddle?)

November 26, 2022 admin clean transport, Electric vehicles, electrify america, ev charging, ev charging stations, plugshare

Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2022 23:00:12 +0000

There’s something that’s really starting to drive me insane on Plugshare. For those not in the know, Plugshare is a place where people used to share the location of EV chargers they were willing to share with other EV drivers. But, as public charging infrastructure became a thing, it became more of a place where […]

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Shopping For An EV? How To Be Sure It Will Get You There On Trips

November 23, 2022 admin a better routeplanner, cars, clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles, ev charging, plugshare

Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2022 12:00:10 +0000

If you’re considering buying an EV, or you’ve recently purchased one, things can look a little intimidating. For local driving, you’ve probably figured out that the EV has plenty of extra range and that you can charge it while you sleep. That part of things (which is about 90% of your driving for most people), […]

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Starbucks & Volvo Cars Choose Locations For 60 EV Fast Chargers

August 11, 2022 admin chargepoint, clean transport, Electric vehicles, ev charging, ev charging stations, plugshare, starbucks

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2022 06:01:19 +0000

There are not a lot of places outside of my house or a sports facility where I’d like to hang out for an hour+. However, coffee shops fit the bill. I can relax, enjoy a coffee, and work in a comfortable manner in a coffee shop. If I had a bit more of a normal […]

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From Range Anxiety To Gas Station Anxiety?

December 13, 2019 admin air quality, carbon pricing, carbon tax, cars, China, clean transport, co2 emissions, consumer technology, electric cars, Electric vehicles, Europe, ev charging, ev charging stations, gas stations, GERMANY, green economy, investment, Manufacturing, market research, mass transit / public transit, plugshare, policy & politics, research, Sierra Club, sierra club clean transportation for all, US, waste reduction

Credit to Author: Cynthia Shahan| Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2019 00:00:09 +0000

One of CleanTechnica’s first rate, well written, most fascinating articles this year was one by Maarten Vinkhuyzen, who wrote, “A perfect storm is brewing above the automotive industry. Three hardly grasped phenomena are working together. Just like a real storm, when the conditions align in the best/worst way, we get a devastating superstorm. These phenomena (or events) are the Osborne effect of delayed demand, the technology (cost) curve of battery prices and other technology, and the S-curve that describes market acceptance of new technologies.”