A new report, State of the Industry Report: U.S. EV Fast Charging — Q2 2025, is out today from Paren. Despite Donald Trump blowing up federal support for EV charging infrastructure, the country is still on track for record deployments of EV fast chargers in 2025. Perhaps even more importantly, … [continued]
This is one of those nerdy topics that doesn’t matter, and yet, can be a source of ongoing debate. At least, I intend to make it so even if I am screaming into the void. This is going to be a bit of a ramble, but hopefully you will find … [continued]
The IONNA EV charging consortium has a golden opportunity to provide EV drivers with public fast charging alternative to Tesla Superchargers, and they are not letting the brand reputation grass grow under their feet.
The IONNA EV charging consortium has a golden opportunity to provide EV drivers with public fast charging alternative to Tesla Superchargers, and they are not letting the brand reputation grass grow under their feet.
The pleasing green glow when I arrive at an established Electrify America charging station. right off the freeway.
Naturally, electric vehicle sales have gone up this year, as we’ve reported, and there are certainly a lot more electric vehicles on the road than there were a year ago. Sales numbers are just sales numbers, though. Is there evidence of a lot more electric vehicle charging? Yes, there is! … [continued]
The new EV charging station solution from DC Grid combines DC fast-charging technology with quick and simple no-trench installation.
Photo (cropped): New applications for supercapacitors could include a new ultra-fast charging EV battery based on sodium-ion chemistry (courtesy of ARPA-E).
The electric vehicle revolution has barely gotten under way, and already the goalposts for EV charging times are moving on to the next phase.
A few days ago, Ford CEO Jim Farley teased us with a picture of a Ford Mustang Mach-e EV charging at a Tesla Supercharger, Farley promised “more details coming very soon.” Today, the company officially announced that its Tesla adapter is available for retail customers to order free of charge until June 30, 2024. After that date, it will cost $230. This means owners of Ford EVs, including the Mustang Mach-e and F-150 Lightning, will be able to use Tesla Superchargers to charge their EVs at high speed.
For many years now, it has been advised to not fast charge electric vehicles too much, that doing so could lead to rapid degradation of your EV’s battery. It’s always been unclear how much this matters, though, and especially across different vehicles with different battery management systems. At times, Tesla … [continued]
Having a place to charge is going to be one of the biggest challenges to the EV transition. Tesla realized this from the beginning of the modern EV era, and worked to build a huge fast charging network for its EV drivers, but most of the other manufacturers dropped the … [continued]
Positive Cash Flow for Fastned In the recent H1-2023 financial report from Fastned, there was one news item I had been waiting for. I knew it was coming, it was unavoidable, and it would be a huge line to cross. That item was positive cash flow that enables Fastned to … [continued]
