We spoke to Pat Romano, President and CEO at ChargePoint, to talk about a new round of funding for ChargePoint to better understand how the company plans to leverage it in the coming months and years.
ChargePoint has partnered with the National Association of Truck Stop Owners (NATSO) to launch a massive new $1 billion initiative to add EV charging to deploy DC fast charging and level 2 EV chargers at more than 4,000 NATSO member locations, travel stops, and fueling locations across the country.
The EV charging stories have been building up, so here we go with another #NewsBonanza. Below are 10 notable EV charging stations we couldn’t make time for, followed by 16 big EV charging stories we did cover before now.
ChargePoint says it plans to increase the size of its EV charging network fifty-fold within the next 7 years to service the millions of electric cars it thinks will be on the road by then.
To explore what some of the biggest electric vehicle (EV) trends might be in 2018, I captured the insights and predictions from 14 industry experts by having them answer this question: What will be the biggest electric vehicle news story or development in 2018?
The significant, constant usage of electricity from a single source like a plug-in vehicle has opened up a new market for grid-scale demand management. Grid-scale demand response bundles charging plug-in vehicles together into a single demand unit when they are using smart chargers connected to a utility. The utility can then have the charging speed throttled up and down to balance the electricity load on the grid.
With the House of Representatives having passed its tax reform plans and the Senate having released its version, the uncertainty around the basic existence of the federal EV tax credit, as evidenced by the difference between the two proposals, will be disruptive to the industry. It’s this uncertainty that leads everyone to a fundamental question: If the government chooses to end EV tax credits, will that affect the EV market overall? The answer is yes.
ChargePoint, one of the largest electric vehicle charging networks in the world, has made two significant moves this past week that will see its network grow even larger. In the US, the company is taking over management of the GE electric vehicle charging network, which consists of 1,800 commercial and 8,000 residential chargers. ChargePoint will maintain GE’s existing software and commercial charging spots, helping to make the change to ChargePoint as easy and seamless as possible for existing clients and drivers.
One of the largest electric vehicle charging network companies in the world, ChargePoint, has hit a major new milestone, according to an email sent to CleanTechnica — the firm’s charging station network now includes more than 30,000 stations. As noted in the recent email, that means that there are now … [continued]
Originally published on EV Obsession. Take a break from the “interesting” presidential political campaigns for some wonderful news. In the not always “United” States, some states are challenging national imperatives to cut the spewing of carbon from the electricity sector. However, one continually trendsetting state, California, is making another progressive leadership move (nationally and … [continued]
