US industrial technology manufacturing company Littelfuse has introduced its RCMP20 Residual Current Monitor Series for EV charging stations. The RCMP20 Series is designed to offer high performance and flexibility while supporting higher charging currents than alternative products on the market, according to the company. The monitors have a large current transformer (CT) aperture, while integrated … Continue reading “Littelfuse launches current monitor series for EV charging stations”
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French infrastructure specialists Proviridis have partnered with EVSE manufacturer Kempower to deliver a novel, underground charging solution for electric semi trucks designed to easily integrate into existing truck depots. By installing its high-powered charging cabinets underground and integrating the charging cables into a solid metal pipe, Kempower and Proviridis have been able to make room for … Continue reading “Kempower, Proviridis partner on novel electric semi truck charging solution”
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Tesla has released a new navigation feature to make it easier for people towing trailers to find charging stations that can accommodate them. Towing trailers with electric vehicles is not yet super popular, but it is rapidly gaining in popularity, with more electric SUVs and pickup trucks having increasingly impressive towing capacity. Tesla has had … Continue reading “Tesla makes finding charging stations for people towing trailers easier”
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Tesla has announced that it will finally deliver 500 kW charging as it is about to install its long-awaited V4 Supercharger cabinets. The rollout of Supercharger V4 has been a strange one, to say the least. Tesla has been deploying the new charging stations for two years and calling them “Supercharger V4”, but it has … Continue reading “Tesla announces 500 kW charging as it finally delivers V4 Supercharger cabinets”
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There’s no good way for a company to abandon its customers. But Enel X Way, the EV-charging subsidiary of Italian utility and energy conglomerate Enel Group, may have picked the worst way to go about it — and critics say it’s running out of time to choose a better path. On October 2, Enel X Way abruptly announced it … Continue reading “Enel X Way abandoned its US EV charging customers. What happens next?”
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US EV fast charging network Electrify America, a subsidiary of Volkswagen Group of America, and California-based trucking company 4 Gen Logistics, have installed 14 hyper-fast chargers to support 4 Gen’s fleet of Class 8 drayage trucks. 4 Gen’s facility in Rialto, California, is part of a broader initiative to reduce Southern California tailpipe emissions, particularly … Continue reading “Electrify America and 4 Gen Logistics open electric truck charging station”
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Photo: GM It’s an exciting week for grid resiliency-lovers in California, as Governor Gavin Newsom followed up his earlier smart grid law and signed another law this week which may require bidirectional charging on EVs in the future – though the law has no hard timeline attached, so it may be a while before we see … Continue reading “Bidirectional charging may be required on EVs soon due to new CA law”
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Sponsored by EnergyHub. Adoption of electric vehicles is accelerating rapidly, posing challenges to aging distribution infrastructure. Fortunately, managed charging offers a compelling solution. In this eBook, EnergyHub explores how growing residential EV load affects utility power distribution networks, and how utilities can use managed charging programs to both delight customers and defer or defray the … Continue reading “Download eBook: How can managed EV charging protect the distribution grid?”
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Public charging stations don’t just drive EV adoption; they also increase consumer spending at nearby businesses, a new MIT study found. The study is based on data from over 4,000 charging stations in California and 140,000 businesses, using anonymized credit and debit card transactions to track changes in spending. Researchers used data from 2019 through … Continue reading “EV charging stations give bump to nearby businesses, research confirms”
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More than a year after legacy automakers announced a transition from the CCS charging port to Tesla’s North American Charging Standard (NACS), GM EV customers are finally able to purchase an approved adapter and gain access to hundreds of thousands of Tesla chargers. Today’s news has been a long time coming for GM-branded EV drivers. … Continue reading “GM releases its approved NACS adapter, giving its drivers access to Tesla’s charging network”