A recent article at Yahoo Finance explains that Shell is going to start backing away from retail fuel stations to better focus on EV charging. As part of this effort, 1,000 fuel retail locations will be sold while more EV charging stations will be installed at the remaining locations the … [continued]
Despite some recent doom and gloom headlines, EV sales continue to break records and the railway electrification code is beginning to crack.
Some months ago, I wrote an article about the surprise switch from CCS to NACS as the de facto standard for EV charging in North America. CCS charging won’t disappear, but Tesla has over 60% of the EVs on the road and now most manufacturers who were formerly committed to … [continued]
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote an article about the surprise switch from CCS to NACS as the de facto standard for EV charging in North America. CCS charging won’t disappear, but now, aside from Tesla (which has over 60% of the EVs on the road in the US), … [continued]
I spend a lot of time thinking about the future of EV charging infrastructure. Every EV driver wonders about this a little, and we probably all have ideas about where stations should go, based on our local knowledge. But, I’m a little weird about this. Instead of worrying about what … [continued]
TL;DR: I’m putting some finishing touches on my travel setup to chase important cleantech and outdoors stories, and need help. Details and fundraiser are here. Earlier this year, I asked readers to help me get some gear together to make travel a lot cheaper. The cheapest way I could come … [continued]
If you are old enough, you remember the battle between Betamax and VHS video recording standards. Betamax was higher quality, but VHS won. Now we have the battle between Blue Ray disks and streaming, with streaming becoming more dominant by the day. We had recordable disks for saving data, but … [continued]
Toward the end of last week, there was a real shocker of an announcement in the industry when Ford announced that it will be adopting the Tesla/”NACS” charge plug for vehicles starting in 2025. When there’s a big story like that, one important aspect of ongoing coverage is to see … [continued]
Yesterday’s announcement that Ford’s future vehicles would be equipped with Tesla’s NACS charging connector (Supercharging port) signaled a big shift in the industry. Before the announcement, Tesla was using its plug and everyone else was using the CCS1 plug in the United States. It seemed like this would continue indefinitely, … [continued]
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 … [continued]
