Rivian electric trucks head out for Amazon deliveries in San Francisco

Rivian Amazon electric delivery truck  -  San FranciscoAmazon has begun testing the first of a planned 100,000 Rivian electric vans on delivery routes in San Francisco. The city is one of 16 where Amazon plans to deploy electric delivery vehicles in 2021, according to a company press release. The rollout began in Los Angeles last month, and will ramp up with 10,000 of the electric vans entering...

EVgo partners with Meijer for Midwest EV fast-charging at up to 350 kw

Tesla charging on EVgo networkThe 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...

Fresh USPS mail trucks revealed: Not all will be electric

Oshkosh USPS mail delivery truckLast month, President Biden plotted out the future for the federal vehicle fleet as American-made and all-electric. Yet the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) on Tuesday awarded ten-year, multi-billion-dollar contract for next-generation postal vehicles, many of which will have engines and tailpipes. According to an announcement of the contract Tuesday...

Flywheel tech helps ease grid demands of EV fast-charging

Chakratec flywheel-based Kinetic Energy Storage systems for EV charging, grid-balancingAlthough true flywheel-based kinetic energy recovery systems (KERS) never quite caught on in racing or in production hybrids, a company in Israel has been working on putting the technology to use where it could make a big difference: EV fast-charging stations. The flywheels Chakratec uses for charging stations weigh about 330 pounds each and...

Audi and Norway unleash Game of Thrones star on GM, Will Ferrell

Audi ad  -  Kristoffer Hivju asserting Norway's EV supremacyAudi is Norway’s best-selling electric vehicle brand. GM doesn’t sell vehicles in Norway. You didn’t think Audi—and especially its Norwegian operation—would sit idly by as GM and Will Ferrell challenged it in EVs, would you? For that, Audi turned to “proud Norwegian,” and “Viking among Vikings”...