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Ford F150 Lightning Charging at Tesla Supercharger. February, 2024.

A Ford F150 Lightning EV Charges at a Tesla V3 Supercharger.

Why Ford’s Tesla Charging Adapter is Good for Tesla, Ford and the EV Industry

February 29, 2024March 1, 20242 months ago Chris Boylan 0 Comments

A few days ago, Ford CEO Jim Farley teased us with a picture of a Ford Mustang Mach-e EV charging at a Tesla Supercharger, Farley promised “more details coming very soon.” Today, the company officially announced that its Tesla adapter is available for retail customers to order free of charge until June 30, 2024. After that date, it will cost $230. This means owners of Ford EVs, including the Mustang Mach-e and F-150 Lightning, will be able to use Tesla Superchargers to charge their EVs at high speed.

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Porsche Taycan 2.0 — Faster, Further, Focused

February 7, 20242 months ago Steve Hanley 16 Comments

The second generation Porsche Taycan is focused on better efficiency, more performance, and faster charging.

Study Reveals Effects Of Fast Charging On Electric Car Battery Health

November 5, 20236 months ago Steve Hanley 0 Comments

Worried that frequent use of DC fast chargers will degrade the battery in your electric car? Recurrent says, don’t be.

Featured image: A screenshot from the Aptera webinar.

Aptera Responds To Customer Feedback, Makes DCFC Standard On All Vehicles

January 24, 20231 year ago Jennifer Sensiba 0 Comments

A few days ago, Aptera revealed the details for its Launch Edition vehicle. I won’t go into the full details here, but I wrote a detailed two-part article and a link to Aptera’s video presentation here. For the TL;DR crowd, the biggest details were that the Launch Edition will be … [continued]

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The DC Fast Charge Conundrum

January 16, 20231 year ago Guest Contributor 0 Comments

The gas pump. It has been around for quite a long time. Despite its more or less superficial changes, it still dispenses fuel (gasoline) from a trickle to a gusher at the users’ discretion into their container of choice (tank or gas can). The payments are cash or credit, no … [continued]

Level 3 Is A Perfectly Legitimate Term For DC Fast Charging

January 16, 20231 year ago Jennifer Sensiba 0 Comments

Obviously, DC fast charging exists, and many people call that Level 3, so why are they saying it’s not real??

You’re Planning On A Non-Tesla EV Purchase For Cross Country Trips — Seriously?

December 17, 20221 year ago Arthur Frederick (Fritz) Hasler 0 Comments

You have your eye on an economical Bolt EUV, or your dream battery-electric car, a BMW i7 or Porsche Taycan, but you are planning frequent or even infrequent cross country trips. For this, ideally you will need functioning, unoccupied CCS chargers at 100 mile intervals along your proposed routes. No … [continued]

Fastned Is Starting To Grow Again After 5 Quarters Of Corona Stagnation

September 26, 20213 years ago Maarten Vinkhuyzen 0 Comments

The second quarter of 2021 is the first quarter showing real growth after the last quarter of 2019. The five quarters in between were a matter of survival during the corona crises. People started working from home, were furloughed, and made far fewer visits to business events or relatives. And … [continued]

Ford F-150 Lightning — Bold Move Or Too Little Too Late?

May 24, 20213 years ago Steve Hanley 0 Comments

Is the Ford F-150 Lighting the greatest idea since sliced bread or an over-priced toy for a few wealthy drivers?

China × Cleantech — March 2021

April 8, 20213 years ago Tim Dixon 0 Comments

Welcome to China × Cleantech — March 2021 edition. Our China x Cleantech series covers top cleantech stories in China each month. EV Sales Tesla Model Y Ramps Up In China, $4400 Wuling EV Still #1 On the 18th of March, José Pontes reported on the sales numbers of the Chinese EV … [continued]