As a lack of Level 2 AC charging infrastructure gets in the way of EV ownership in some urban areas, the lack of fast-charging could slow electric ride-hailing adoption, according to new analysis from the clean-energy advocacy group Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI). With so many vehicles from the likes of Uber and Lyft on city streets, electrifying... Could urban charging deserts hinder ride-hailing EV adoption—and cleaner air?
As a lack of Level 2 AC charging infrastructure gets in the way of EV ownership in some urban areas, the lack of fast-charging could slow electric ride-hailing adoption, according to new analysis from the clean-energy advocacy group Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI). With so many vehicles from the likes of Uber and Lyft on city streets, electrifying... 
SparkCharge is moving ahead with plans to offer mobile charging as a more-convenient alternative to traditional charging stations. After testing out its hardware with roadside-assistance services in San Francisco and Los Angeles, SparkCharge on Thursday announced a wider rollout, encompassing an upgraded mobile-charging system called Roadie CCS... 
Ubiquitous convenience-store chain 7-Eleven is getting serious about EV fast charging. The company plans to install 500 DC fast-charging stations at 250 United States and Canada locations by the end of 2022. That's a big increase over the 22 charging stations—located at 14 stores in four states—that 7-Eleven currently operates. The... 
EVgo is introducing a reservation program for its public fast-charging sites, allowing customers to reserve a charging station ahead of time, but only in certain West Coast locations. The EVgo Reservations program is now available at 17 sites in Northern California, Southern California, and Washington State, the company said in a press release... 
Consumers are uneducated about home charging for electric cars, and that's holding back adoption, according to the J.D. Power 2021 EV Home Charging Study. Brent Gruber, J.D. Power senior director of global automotive and author of the study, said in a statement that "the lack of awareness around charging options is making it very difficult to move... 
With summer approaching, a holiday weekend upon us, and stir-crazy families looking toward post-pandemic road trips, it's as good a time as ever to survey which electric vehicles include free fast-charging. Quite a few of them do, although some automakers only offer a limited amount of free charging—often based on kilowatt-hours—rather... 
The startup WattEV aims to build a 25-megawatt electric-only truck stop in Bakersfield, California, with charging powered by a solar array. The site will be open to the public, but WattEV also plans to use the charging stations for its own fleet of vehicles. While a 25-MW capacity, with 40 charging stalls, is the long-term goal, the site will... 
Between charging networks and automakers, there's currently an overload of charging apps, all trying to do variations of the same thing: Getting you to the fastest available chargers, along your route, and being functional inside and outside the car. A major obstacle preventing the rise of one app to rule them all is the growing divide between... 
The idea of using coordinated electric-car charging to stabilize the grid has been discussed for years, but is still in early stages of development. California regulators now hope to bring so-called "vehicle-to-grid" (V2G) technology into focus. V2G requires cars that can discharge power back into the grid, something that isn't widely available... 
The Ford Mustang Mach-E is one of our top electric-vehicle recommendations, but if you plan to pair it with Ford’s home wallbox right now, you better shop around. The automaker recently stopped sales of its Ford-branded home charger. It says that the unit, called the Ford Connected Charge Station, can record a fault signal that halts and... 
Hyundai has created a fast-charging template for electric cars with a name that evokes racing and a look that evokes current gas stations. The automaker plans to open 12 fast-charging sites under the E-Pit banner—with 72 individual plugs—at highway rest stops in South Korea beginning in April, with eight more sites totaling 48 plugs... 
Electrify America will set up charging stations for the 2021 Jeep Wrangler 4xe plug-in hybrid at off-road trailheads, the two companies announced Friday. Jeep executives previously mentioned a network of charging stations, but this serves as an official confirmation and fills in some details about the rollout. The first stations of the so-called... 
The charging network EVgo on Thursday announced a partnership that will install publicly accessible EV fast-charging stations at Meijer supercenter locations in the Midwest. Although EVgo didn’t say exactly how many stations the partnership will include, it plans to start installing them in summer 2021. At present, the charging provider has... 
DC fast charging can make owning an electric car more convenient, but the cost of using it can be substantially higher than slower Level 2 AC charging. A new Massachusetts state law aims to address one of the main reasons why. It's not so much the hardware cost or the siting, but the so-called "demand charges"—premiums charged by utilities... 
A new J.D. Power study once again confirmed that most electric-car drivers rely primarily on home charging, while also offering some insight into customer satisfaction with different types of charging equipment. Of EV owners surveyed, 88% said they charged their cars at home "often" or "always," according to the inaugural J.D. Power U.S. Electric... 
Oil giant Royal Dutch Shell will buy charging-infrastructure Ubitricity, a German company that specializes in streetside charging for electric cars. Ubitricity is probably best known for building charging stations into lampposts, including a project in the United Kingdom that added 24 charging stations along section of street in London. The... 
Longer road trips are now possible with nearly all U.S.-market electric cars, thanks to rather long range ratings and DC fast charging along major highways. Each EV has a different combination of those two things, though. Getting ready for electric road trips means being realistic about both of those sets of numbers—about highway range, and... 
Volkswagen is the latest automaker to experiment with bi-directional charging. The automaker announced last week that it's testing a DC wallbox that allows electric cars to discharge power back into the grid. The wallbox can charge vehicles at up to 22 kilowatts, VW said in a press release. It also allows cars to serve as energy-storage units for... 
BP Pulse, the charging-infrastructure unit of oil giant BP, is working with FreeWireTechnologies to get more of the company's mobile fast-charging stations installed in the United Kingdom. Under a $50 million agreement, BP Pulse will use FreeWire Boost Charger stations as part of a network buildout that will include 700 or more public...