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Dramatic Changes In EV Market In Past 5 Years, & What Will Drive Mainstream Adoption

October 1, 20177 years ago Court Nederveld 0 Comments

What would it take to get a person to buy an electric car? The debate rages about range, environmental issues, performance, size, looks, and repair issues. All important topics, but what’s occurred in just 5 years? In 2011 practically zero EVs were available. Five years later, Nissan has sold a quarter million, Tesla has roughly 200,000 sold and 500,000 ordered, and the Chevy Bolt appears to be selling about 1,000 a month. The Fiat 500E sells in the tens of thousands despite CEO Fiat Chrysler Automobiles’ Chief Executive, Sergio Marchionne, begging people not to purchase his car. Don’t even mention the EV capital of the world, China.

Electric Car Life 101

September 1, 20177 years ago Zachary Shahan 0 Comments

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?

ChargeHub — EV Charging Help, Data, & Community

July 12, 20168 years ago Cynthia Shahan 8 Comments

The first few weeks one drives an EV, the world opens up. One adventure follows in the wake of the last. At common recharge points where you stop to give your car some juice, new (to you) parks and streets become new junctures in the routes that make up your daily routines. Naturally, … [continued]

Electric Car Buyers Hugely Attracted To Tesla Supercharger Network

January 31, 20168 years ago Zachary Shahan 19 Comments

Following our articles on 1) battery preferences of electric car drivers & likely buyers and 2) range requirements + hypothetical range–price tradeoffs, in our 9th article pulled from Electric Cars: What Early Adopters & First Followers Want — a new report from CleanTechnica, EV Obsession, and GAS2 — the topic is charging, charging, charging. The other side of the range coin is … [continued]

ROEV Hopes To Simplify Public EV Charging For The Masses

November 22, 20158 years ago Kyle Field 20 Comments

Anyone who has an EV and has ventured out into the world for some public charging love knows how jumbled and confusing the seemingly random chargers spread around can be. Pulling up, the chargers can be behind locked gates, be for residents only, require a pin, or even be in an … [continued]

CarCharging + Honeywell International Partnering For Workplace EV Charging

July 18, 20159 years ago James Ayre 0 Comments

Originally published on EV Obsession. CarCharging (Car Charging Group) and Honeywell International have partnered for the implementation of Blink electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure at the Honeywell offices in Phoenix, Arizona, according to a recent press release. The new deal between the two companies will see CarCharging operate and maintain … [continued]

CarCharging Will Integrate Tesla’s Charging Tech Into Blink Network

June 25, 201410 years ago James Ayre 0 Comments

It looks like someone has already decided to take advantage of Tesla’s recent decision to open up its patents to free use — the EV charging services provider CarCharging is now planning to integrate Tesla’s charging technology into the Blink Network of charging stations. Apparently, the current aim is “just” … [continued]

Blink Surpasses 1 Million Charge Events!

October 4, 201212 years ago James Ayre 0 Comments

ECOtality Inc., one of the leading companies in electric vehicle transportation and storage technologies, yesterday announced that its Blink Chargers have surpassed one million EV residential charge events. ECOtality is the first company in the industry to reach this milestone. “Through the data recorded on Blink chargers for The … [continued]

Clean Links: Solar, Wind, Energy Efficiency, Clean Transport, Energy Storage, Geothermal, & Waste-2-Energy News Roundup

March 27, 201212 years ago Zachary Shahan 0 Comments

Some other top cleantech posts from the past couple weeks or so: Wind Power 1. Vestas published an interesting video on the chemistry of wind turbine blades (above) — interesting. 2. “A consortium led by GICON Grossmann Ingenieur Consult GmbH has developed a floating platform designed to be used for offshore … [continued]

Clean Car News (10 Stories)

March 9, 201212 years ago Zachary Shahan 3 Comments

10 more top clean car stories from the past week (other than our 13 or so clean car and transportation stories): 1. GM has ceased production of its Chevy Volt for 5 weeks. And while some are eager to call the Chevy Volt dead, Chris DeMorro of sister site Gas2 … [continued]