Look out Tesla Motors and ChargePoint, here comes a charging network with big plans. Electrify America just announced a plan to build a nation-wide electric car charging network comprising thousands of charging locations over the next 10 years. What’s most important is the coverage of inter-city routes as shown in…
With the recent embrace of DC Fast Charging, as well as Home Charging solutions, ChargePoint has positioned itself as a full service electric car charging station network. Today, ChargePoint held a Webinar targeted at “property owners” who would be a charging station host site. The goal of course is to persuade…
Today, ChargePoint announced an expansion of its ChargePoint Places program that’s being used to promote attractive EV-Friendly destinations. The program is cool because EV drivers are presented with reassurance they’ll be able to travel with their electric car, and charge at the destination. Showcasing destinations that do offer electric…
ChargePoint recent announcement of available two DC Fast Charge stations indicates they’re preparing for the fast charging future. With the upcoming wave of 200+ mile range electric cars – appearing to start in 2016-2017-2018 if currently announced plans work out – public fast charging infrastructure is a BIG NEED. (On a 60 kWh…
The Kansas City metropolitan area is one of America’s Big Cities, but for some reason it’s electric car charging network has been limited in number, with very few fast charging stations. All that’s about to change thanks to a new joint announcement from ChargePoint and Kansas City Power And Light.…
Why should Tesla Model S owners be the only EV owners capable of taking long distant trips? What’s needed is fast charging infrastructure located along highways between major cities supporting cars other than Tesla’s. Existing DCFC infrastructure for the rest of us is only been located inside cities, and not…
The change two weeks ago by Blink Networks to switch from per-hour pricing to per-kilowatt-hour pricing has caused an eruption of anger among Blink members. The change was supposed to solve another big problem – Blink’s habit of rounding up session fees to the next hour even when the elapsed…
I’m beginning to think the real future of electric vehicle charging has to switch to a filling station model. Today most public electric vehicle charging uses a parking lot model, because the typical charging rate (Level 2 AC at 6 kilowatts) gives 20-25 miles of range per hour of charging.…
Recently I had the occasion to write up a news article about new CHADEMO fast charging stations from Fuji Electric and ABB. In the press release from ABB I noticed a paragraph saying that the station was compatible with the Open Charge Point Protocol. Hmm.. I thought, what does that…
