January 18th, 2021 | by Jesper Berggreen
What happens to the overall range of an electric car when you tow a caravan or a trailer? The association of Danish EV owners (FDEL) decided to find out
January 12th, 2021 | by Steve Hanley
After 24,000 miles, with a Tesla Model 3, Car and Driver says charging at home costs far less than using Tesla's Supercharger network.
August 31st, 2020 | by Jesper Berggreen
The dialog below is inspired by Steven Mark Ryans' brilliant take on Elon Musk’s Neuralink progress update on Friday, August 28th,
May 31st, 2020 | by Guest Contributor
Amid the financial fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic, most of us have hardly had time to consider the effects of another economic H-bomb that went off around the same time: the collapse of oil prices
May 30th, 2020 | by Jesper Berggreen
Mr. Me: me. Colin: 2019 Model 3 Long Range RWD named after a small security guard robot in Douglas Adams’s The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy. Colin is captured and gets its reward circuits rewired by one of the main characters to find ecstatic pleasure in anything its master commands of it
February 17th, 2020 | by Kyle Field
The largest EV fast charging station in the nation opened this week in Pasadena, California. The new station is comprised of 24 Tesla Superchargers and 20 of Tritium's DC fast chargers
August 8th, 2019 | by Kyle Field
In the eastern United States, Wawa gas stations are known for the copious assortment of munchies travelers can pick up, but that may soon be changing. A spokesperson for the convenience store chain told The Philadelphia Inquirer this week that it is planning to double the number of Tesla Superchargers at its locations
March 13th, 2019 | by Steve Hanley
Tesla and the City of Pasadena have entered into an agreement to build a new fast charging facility. Tesla will install 24 Superchargers on the top level of the Marengo parking garage and pay for the installation of the wiring needed to install another 20 Level 3 fast chargers. When complete, it will be the largest EV fast charging facility in the western US.
January 3rd, 2019 | by Kyle Field
Sales of the Tesla Model 3 are introducing thousands of new customers, not only to the Tesla family, but also to the world of electric vehicles. Those new owners are taking to the streets and, more importantly, to the rows of new Superchargers that Tesla is feverishly installing across the United States and around the world as it struggles to keep up with customer demand
December 16th, 2018 | by Steve Hanley
Siemens, Porsche, and BMW have been developing ultra fast charging technology since 2016. Last week, a 450 kW charger created by the group gave a Porsche Taycan a 62 mile range boots in just 3 minutes. Is such rapid charging about to become a reality?
October 16th, 2018 | by Kyle Field
Porsche is coming back to the discussion of fast charging with plans to build more than 700 new high speed chargers around the world in an overt confirmation of the criticality of having a super fast charging network like the Tesla Supercharging network
September 17th, 2018 | by Steve Hanley
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.
April 26th, 2018 | by Steve Hanley
Details about the new EV charging network from Electrify America are beginning to emerge. As usual, there is more to the announcement than meets the eye.
January 7th, 2018 | by Steve Hanley
Elon Musk dashed off a tweet on January 6 (or super early January 7) that promised some exciting new features at a Supercharger location in Los Angeles. The Musk Man hinted that an old-fashioned drive-in restaurant complete with wait staff on roller skates may be in the offing. No mention of poodle skirts, however
October 10th, 2017 | by Steve Hanley
NREL has completed a study designed to help pinpoint where EV chargers are needed and what type in order to support the transition to electric cars.
September 26th, 2017 | by Zachary Shahan
The top 20 CleanTechnica stories of the past week were again packed with fun stuff, Tesla videos, original commentary and analysis from CleanTechnica on the EV revolution, and much more
September 21st, 2017 | by Steve Hanley
Tesla is busy installing 1000 Superchargers throughout China. The largest Supercharger installation in the world is now under construction in Shanghai.
