FreeWire Slides Into UK
It’s been a couple of months since we’ve covered FreeWire, and 5 years since we first covered it, but now we have our first news about the company leaping across the pond.
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Does The Renewable Energy & EV Wave Include Shell & BP?
The electric car world stops when Tesla shareholder calls happen, but another significant development occurred in late January when Shell New Energies US, LLL, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Shell, acquired Greenlots, an electric car charging software and hardware company. The acquisition raises questions about fossil-fuel companies and their approach with the electric vehicle charging landscape and profit expectations going forward.
Google Maps Now Features EV Charging Stations #NewsQuickie
OK, this isn’t the hottest news on the planet, but if you missed it, it may be helpful to know that Google Maps now enthusiastically jumps to your service if you’re looking for an EV charging station … which sort of steps all over PlugShare’s toes, but is admittedly a big help for many electric car drivers, especially newbies who knew enough to get a Tesla Model 3 but know very little otherwise about EV life and apps.
Does Big Oil Think It Can Transition To An Electric Vehicle World?
Oil and its allies are doing what they can to delay the day of reckoning, but it’s just a matter of time before fossil-powered vehicles join sailing ships, horse-drawn carriages, and bowler hats in making the transition from necessary to nostalgic. What will Big Oil do?
BP Keeps Painting Its Face Greener
I had to smile at the news of BP getting more into e-mobility because I remember being selected for a BP panel years ago when the company decided to “become green.” It basically painted its logo green, in perfectly logical corporate fashion. A decade later, BP Downstream has acquired UK electric vehicle (EV) charging station network Chargemaster. But this acquisition hasn’t been BP’s only EV move in recent months.
The EV Experience Centre Aims To Educate Consumers About Plug-In Vehicles
What’s the worst part about buying a car? By and large, it’s the sales experience, and the unpleasantness associated with buying a car is only compounded when the salespeople assigned to make the experience pleasant don’t know heads from tails when it comes to plug-in vehicles, as is often the case.
EV Charging Network Leaders Are …
I still find it hard to believe that I am a “early adopter.” Soon, I hope I will not be thinking “Why are there not more EV drivers?” Well, I do thank my lucky stars on this one. Primarily, I thank CleanTechnica.com and EVObsession.com for pointing me to “right drivelihood.” But it’s not just the cars and social support that make the EV movement. There’s an entire “EV ecosystem” in place, and growing.
