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Home Posts tagged "ChargePoint"

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Electrify America and Greenlots to build massive country-wide electric car charging network

January 24, 2018 January 24, 2018

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…

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ChargePoint’s host site sales pitch, and the charging station infrastructure that doesn’t quite serve us

December 10, 2015 December 10, 2015
BWI-airport ChargePoint installation

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…

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ChargePoint Places promoting win-win for both electric car drivers and destination sites

December 8, 2015 December 8, 2015
Charging EV's on long trips

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…

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ChargePoint preparing the DC Fast Charging future – two DCFC’s announced, network expansion coming soon

June 23, 2015 June 23, 2015

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…

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Kansas City area getting huge new electric car charging network – 1000+ charging stations, including fast charging

January 26, 2015 March 30, 2015

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.…

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BMW, VW, ChargePoint East-West-Coast fast charging network won’t solve standards war against Mitsu, Nissan, Kia and Tesla

January 23, 2015 April 14, 2015

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…

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Is Blink gouging us with the new kilowatt-hour pricing model?

September 17, 2014 April 13, 2015

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…

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Both road tripping and apartment dwelling electric vehicle owners say we need fast charging NOW

August 29, 2014 April 5, 2015

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.…

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Open Charge Point Protocol and the ChargePoint electric car charging network

April 5, 2013 April 13, 2015

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…

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