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?
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.
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.
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.
The electric vehicle fast-charging network firm Fastned has signed an agreement with the Van der Valk Hotels & Restaurants chain, which operates out of the Netherlands and Belgium, to develop a chain of associated electric vehicle fast-charging stations, according to an email sent to CleanTechnica.
London’s first 75 charging points should be operational by the end of the year. By 2020, there could be 300. The first steps towards London’s transportation sector going electric have been taken.
Two months ago, the European Commission decided “Germany’s scheme to roll out a network of user-friendly infrastructure for charging electric vehicles across the country is in line with EU state aid rules.” Germany will invest €300 million (nearly $320), and two-thirds of this goes to its fast-charging network. The Dutch company Fastned will be one of the developers. Germany’s first Fastned EV fast charging stations will soon be under construction.
Some of Fastned’s first electric vehicle fast-charging stations have begun to break even, with the company’s first two stations producing enough revenue in March to cover leases, licenses, power costs, cleaning + maintenance, and grid connection fees.
As you probably saw, I was one of the keynote speakers at EV-Box’s inaugural rEVolution summit. I noticed ahead of time that the inspiring Engie exec Thierry Lepercq was going to be one of the other speakers, but I did not anticipate the huge news that was to come. At the very end of the summit, EV-Box CEO Kristof Vereenooghe slow-walked us through the announcement, somewhat teasing the audience as he unveiled that EV-Box had just become a part of Engie.
Five large electric vehicle fast-charging station networks in Europe have partnered to create a new integrated alliance, allowing users to easily use the stations of any of the 5 networks while traveling, according to a new press release from the collaboration.
