This week, Gilbarco Veeder-Root introduced the Amps2Go Series 6 level 2 EVSE. It was designed to make fleet and public-facing customer charging easy for business owners to add and manage while lowering the up-front cost compared to DC fast charging solutions.
Grants for EV charging stations for multi-resident buildings and workplaces will be available later this year in San Mateo County, CA, under a $16 million program — the largest in the state thus far — aimed at accelerating the adoption and use of EVs in the area.
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.
A plan by CARB to spend $200 million from Electrify America on EV charging infrastructure has caused a bitter dispute among EV charging companies and suppliers.
Road trips are a make or break factor for mass adoption of electric vehicles in the US. Unlike much of Europe and many other parts of the world, the US does not have a train system that connects most cities in the country (Amtrak in the Northeast being an exception). As such, most Americans either fly or rely on their cars when they go on vacation to Disneyland or Disney World, to visit relatives a few states away, or to take their child to college hundreds of miles away.
Multi-family housing poses a unique challenge when it comes to hosting EV charging facilities. It also provides some unique opportunities when it comes to servicing more vehicles in a smaller area as compared to traditional residential or public EV charging stations.
Volkswagen’s Electrify America unit will have installed 2,800 plug-in electric vehicle charging “stations” in the US by June 2019, if newly revealed plans are to be taken at face value.
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?
A new Google Glass app for finding EV charging stations just launched this week, via one of the bigger EV charging station companies in North America, SemaConnect. Not that I know anyone who actually uses the Glass, but I guess that this is a good thing. 🙂 The new app … [continued]
Apartment building owners typically meter the electricity of each of the apartment units they rent out individually, unlike the “common area” places such as the parking lots typically provided for their renters in general. But that might change. We are approaching a future in which parking lots could be providing … [continued]
