April 9th, 2019 | by Zachary Shahan
The Netherlands has long been one of the top plug-in vehicle markets. Norway far and away wins the prize for highest market share (Tesla alone accounted for 31% of new vehicle sales in March and all fully electric vehicles combined accounted for 58.5% of sales), but the Netherlands is perhaps the country most closely following Norway's lead
February 16th, 2019 | by Cynthia Shahan
As part of CleanTechnica's Cleantech Revolution Tour in Warsaw, Poland, Zachary Shahan began a panel discussion about the hurdles, potential, and best practices of EV charging infrastructure
February 10th, 2019 | by Nicolas Zart
Welcome to our new weekly #CleanTechnica video recap of some of our favorite stories of the week. In this new feature, Alex Guberman from "E for Electric" and I provide our opinions on hot news from our decade+ of experience with electric vehicles
February 9th, 2019 | by Dr. Maximilian Holland
European DC fast charging company Fastned yesterday released images from the Netherlands of the newly arrived Tesla Model 3 Long Range charging at 126 kW on its CCS chargers. This is just a teaser of even higher charging speeds to come
January 26th, 2019 | by Zachary Shahan
The electric vehicle (EV) industry was booming in 2018. It was the most booming year of a booming decade for EVs. Below is a long, long rundown of notables changes in the industry in
November 22nd, 2018 | by Dr. Maximilian Holland
Recent and upcoming EVs are designed for DC fast charging speeds of 100 kW and more, and are overwhelmingly favouring CCS as the standard charging architecture. Next-generation charging networks in Europe and the US are also favouring CCS. Despite its early lead, CHAdeMO now looks to be falling behind
October 9th, 2018 | by Kyle Field
Fastned is partnering with a supermarket chain to install and operate fast chargers at their supermarkets, starting with a pilot at four of their REWE Region Mitte supermarkets sprinkled around the Frankfurt area
September 29th, 2018 | by Jos Olijve
A review of the Renault Zoë from an extensive test drive and charging session by two old dinosaurs
September 16th, 2018 | by Dr. Maximilian Holland
In the coming months, with some timing and volume variations by region, you will be able to choose from many affordable, generous range, compelling, and all-around-capable EVs that are coming on to the market. Whilst the Tesla Model 3 Standard Range is arguably the most keenly anticipated of the bunch, all of these EVs are great cars, much better than any fossil fuel vehicle (FFV) equivalent
August 19th, 2018 | by Dr. Maximilian Holland
New aggregated data from the gurus over at A Better Route Planner show that Tesla Model 3 efficiency is the highest of any production car at highway speeds, with outstandingly low energy consumption. This outstanding efficiency, combined with great supercharging speeds, makes the Model 3 the best road tripping EV in production
July 11th, 2018 | by Kyle Field
Fastned took to the interwebs to loose some facts about the impact its fast charging network has on the grid. With Fastned stations operating exclusively at 50kW and above, its network is a great case study for what large numbers of fast charging sessions might have on the grid. It opened up and shared information from more than 100,000 fast charging sessions over the last 5 years - and the results are interesting
June 10th, 2018 | by Dr. Maximilian Holland
Road trips are the final frontier for electric cars to totally outshine combustion-engine vehicles (gas/diesel cars). Already clearly a better technology than combustion vehicles in every other respect, of all the electric cars currently on the market, only Tesla so far provides truly compelling road trip ready offerings. This is an area that other carmakers need to pay much more attention to if they have a hope of ever competing with Tesla’s stratospheric demand and world-leading EV sales volume
April 16th, 2018 | by James Ayre
The Netherlands-based plug-in electric vehicle fast-charging firm Fastned has reported a first quarter (2018) growth of around 140% (year on year), according to an email sent to CleanTechnica.
April 13th, 2018 | by James Ayre
The Netherlands-based plug-in electric vehicle charging solutions firm Fastned has won a tender from the UK's North East Combined Authority (NECA) that leaves it to build two new fast-charging stations in the region -- one slated for Newcastle and one for Sunderland
February 23rd, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
Fastned is still the only EV charging network I know of that includes CHAdeMO, CCS, and Tesla (via adapter) charging options at all of its stations. This may seem unimportant, since Tesla has its own Supercharger network, but as Fastned co-founder Bart Lubbers pointed out in a recent interview with me, approximately half of the electric cars in the Netherlands are Teslas. As such, even with other options, many of Fastned's customers are Tesla drivers
December 12th, 2017 | by James Ayre
The Netherlands-based electric vehicle fast-charging network developer and operator Fastned has raised a further €12.3 million in funding in just 10 days through the public issue of bonds, according to a new press release
November 30th, 2017 | by James Ayre
The Netherlands-based electric vehicle fast-charging network company Fastned has — due to very strong demand — gone ahead and extended its most recent bonds issue from €3.3 million to €6 million, according to an email sent to CleanTechnica
September 29th, 2017 | by James Ayre
The auto leasing firm LeasePlan is partnering with the on-demand taxi service Uber for the launch of a new pilot in Amsterdam that will see 30 all-electric Nissan Leaf EVs put into the hands of uberX drivers there, according to a new press release from the companies
September 20th, 2017 | by James Ayre
The noted energy storage firm Leclanché SA is now working to develop an energy storage system to be used at Fastned's electric vehicle fast-charging stations in Europe. This new partnership will first lead to the installation of systems at two of the Dutch EV charging network's facilities
September 12th, 2017 | by James Ayre
The electric vehicle fast-charging station firm Fastned has been granted a total of €4.1 million by the German government, to be used for the development of 25 fast-charging stations in Germany, according to an email sent to CleanTechnica
September 1st, 2017 | by Zachary Shahan
Electric cars — great, fun, quick, clean, smooth, quiet, convenient to charge at home and work. But wait, what's life like with an electric car? How do you charge? Where do you charge? What do you need to charge? How do you protect the most valuable component of the car — the battery
July 31st, 2017 | by James Ayre
Fastned, a Netherlands-based EV fast charging firm, has seen its volume and revenue more than double over the last year, going by the most recent data released by the company
July 22nd, 2017 | by Zachary Shahan
First of all, let me say that if anyone else creates a superfast charging network anything close to Tesla's, I'll be one of the first people to cheer it on and I may cheer it more loudly and broadly than anyone else. My goal is to stimulate the transition to zero-emissions transport as quickly as possibly, not to loyally attach my dreams to one company over every other one because I like the logo. Companies that do good stuff deserve to get praised and rewarded
June 7th, 2017 | by James Ayre
The Netherlands-based electric vehicle fast-charging station network firm Fastned, which we cover quite a bit here at CleanTechnica, has raised €7.7 million in just the last two weeks via the public issue of bonds, according to an email sent to CleanTechnica
