Brooklyn-based curbside charging pioneer it’s electric has contracted with the city of Alameda, California to install the city’s first building-powered public curbside EV chargers at Everett Commons, an Alameda Housing Authority (AHA) property. The EV chargers—designed for residents without driveways or private garages—will use its electric’s low-impact Level 2 curbside system, which is powered directly … Continue reading “it’s electric to install building-powered public curbside EV chargers in Alameda”
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Capable of delivering up to 1,200 kW of power to get electric commercial trucks back on the road in minutes, the new ABB MCS1200 Megawatt Charging System is part of an ecosystem of electric vehicle supply equipment (EVSE) that ABB’s bringing to this year’s ACT Expo. ABB E-mobility is using the annual clean trucking conference to … Continue reading “ABB is bringing its new, 1.2 MW modular truck chargers to ACT Expo”
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Photo: Trojan Energy EV drivers in the Borough of Camden in London will soon see a major boost in sidewalk chargers, thanks to a new partnership between Camden Council and Scottish charge point company Trojan Energy. The council awarded Trojan Energy a contract to install over 570 on-street Level 2 EV chargers by 2026. The … Continue reading “London is getting 570 ‘flat and flush’ sidewalk EV chargers”
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Image: Zevtron Zevtron, ParkMobile, and Athena Partners Strategy Group are together supporting charging site owners and EV drivers affected by Shell Recharge’s shutdown of its EV charger software. Shell Recharge is discontinuing its Shell Sky software in third-party commercial EV chargers in the US and Canada. It will service third-party commercial fleet EV chargers until April 30; … Continue reading “Zevtron, ParkMobile to support discontinued Shell Recharge EV chargers”
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Report suggests GSA may be forced to pull the plug on thousands of EVs and chargers GSA’s biggest fleets are USPS, Dept. of Defense; 20% of its 2024 light-vehicle orders were EVs Could affect chargers at national parks, VA hospitals, other venues The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA), which manages all federal government buildings and … Continue reading “Feds purge EVs, chargers: Does Musk still believe EVs cost less to run?”
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The U.S. EV charging network Ionna is picking up speed in its infrastructure build-out as the nascent network aims to make good on its promise of installing tens of thousands of electric vehicle chargers over the next five years. It said on Tuesday in a press release that it is transitioning “from public beta to … Continue reading “Ionna scales up toward targeted 30,000 EV chargers by 2030”
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The Canadian government is investing 18.6 million Canadian dollars ($13.3 million) in EV chargers across the country. “The installation of these chargers will help EV drivers get to where they need to go with confidence and ease,” Natural Resources Canada said. The funds will be given to multiple organizations that will use them to install over … Continue reading “Natural Resources Canada provides $13.3 million to deploy new EV chargers”
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Beam Global sells an innovative portable solar-powered EV charger that fits in a parking space and can be set up in mere hours. Obvious applications for the EV ARC include off-grid and/or temporary charging needs, such as events of disaster relief (a few of these would have come in handy here in St. Pete, Florida … Continue reading “Beam Global receives first order for BeamSpot curbside EV chargers from Fortune 500 utility company”
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Drivers of Ford Mustang Mach-E and F-150 Lightning electric vehicles are getting more EV trip-planning options, via Google Maps, in Ford’s latest over-the-air software update. Part of Android Auto, this feature makes use of vehicle data to show an estimated battery level upon arrival at a destination, suggest charging stops along the way, and estimate … Continue reading “Ford pushes EV routing update for Tesla chargers, Google Maps”
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The total number of U.S. EV charging stations has increased by 32% since 2023, but that growth has been unevenly distributed among the states, Here Technologies found in a new study. Here, which provides map data to automakers for use with navigation systems and location-based services, ranked charging infrastructure based on how far EV drivers … Continue reading “These US states come up short on public chargers per EV”