Tag: EV Charging Infrastructure
EV charging station costs can be reduced, says Rocky Mountain Institute
Tesla Model 3 achieves 1000km in 10 hours on Ionity chargers

Some of us want to take road trips with electric cars. Thanks to ever-more-powerful fast charging systems and ever-larger battery packs electric car road trips are increasingly possible. A year ago a friend in Romania informed me he would not consider an electric car until it could go 1200 kilometers…
Iowa declares EV charging is not a utility, and allows use of on-site solar/wind

Electric vehicle owners in Iowa, and those wishing to drive across Iowa, might feel frustrated with relative scarcity of charging stations. Recently while scoping out the feasibility of driving an electric car from Kansas City to Minneapolis, I found very few charging stations in Iowa. It turns out that electric…
LA to Vegas and back by electric car: Another unwarranted slam by a NY Times reporter
Electrify America aims to simplify electric car charging

Electrify America recently announced plans for upgrading the electric car charging user experience. In the immediate term the company will launch a mobile app to help customers find charging stations, reiterated its commitment to keep charging stations open to all through allowing payment using a credit card, while announcing membership…
Romania Electric car sales grew 165% from 2017 to 2018 – state of EV adoption in Romania
ABB challenges Tesla Supercharger network with 150 kiloWatt CHAdeMO/CCS DCFC charging station

If the standards-based charging networks, and the automakers other than Tesla Motors, are to have a chance, standards-based high-power charging stations like what ABB just unveiled must exist. The Tesla Supercharger network is ingenious only in the forethought exhibited by Tesla Motors to invest in a widespread high power DC…
Newly planned fast charging stations to electrify I-70 east of Kansas City, maybe reaching St. Louis
GM won’t help build the fast charging infrastructure that would jumpstart Bolt sales
Audi et al plans for 150+ kW fast charging networks – success with 200+ mile EV’s

Audi seems to have a clue — for long range electric cars to succeed, there must be a widespread fast charging network offering charging rates well above 100 kiloWatts. Tesla Motors has demonstrated with its Supercharger network that the combination of 70 kiloWatt-hours or more energy, and 120 kiloWatt charging,…
New EV charging adapter lets J1772 car owners use Tesla HPWC charging stations – cool? or theft?

Tesla Motors electric cars use a proprietary charging plug. Adapters are available from Tesla Motors allowing owners of their cars to use public charging stations built with standard charging plugs (J1772, Mennekes, CHAdeMO). Tesla Motors is also deploying charging stations, both fast charging and destination charging, to locations around the…
Ford, Honda, expanding charging station network for employees

Today two different car makers announced expansion of their electric vehicle charging station programs. We applaud any increase in charging station deployments, because there is a crying need to switch to electric drive, and more charging stations is an essential necessary step. However, the charging stations aren’t being deployed for public use, but for…
Plug in EV Handbook for Public Charging Station Hosts
From: Plug in EV Handbook for Public Charging Station Hosts http://www.afdc.energy.gov/pdfs/51227.pdf Plug in EV Handbook for Public Charging Station Hosts
ANSI EVSP Stadardization Roadmap for Electric Vehicles
May 2013 Roadmap for the standardization of electric vehicle charging infrastructure, and the electric vehicle service provider business. This is an ongoing living document used by ANSI to coordinate standardization work between all the companies in the electric vehicle service provider space. These companies include component makers (Eaton, Schneider Electric,…