ChargePoint hopes to operate 2.5 million EV chargers by 2025

ChargePoint currently operates around 54,000 EV charging points — sure, it’s but a fraction of the number of gas pumps in the world, but it’s relatively plenty. Even Tesla’s growing Supercharger network only has 11,013 chargers at this point in time. Someday, however, those 54,000 chargers won’t be enough, so the company has decided to […]

3 good car chargers

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5 great portable car battery chargers | Autoblog's favorites

[unable to retrieve full-text content] Filed under: Videos,Autoblog Minute,Original Video Never get stuck with a dead battery again. Continue reading 5 great portable car battery chargers | Autoblog’s favorites 5 great portable car battery chargers | Autoblog’s favorites originally appeared on Autoblog on Thu, 23 Aug 2018 19:30:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use […]

VW's Electrify America plans nationwide network of 4,800 EV chargers

Part of Volkswagen‘s repentance for that diesel boondoggle is some EV philanthropy known as Electrify America (EA), charged with “investing $ 2 billion over the next 10 years in Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) infrastructure, education/outreach, and access/exposure.” When EA announced the first phase of its plan last February, it said it would install roughly 500 […]

Matrix PowerWatch hands-on: The promise of a world without chargers

When Matrix co-founder Douglas Tham handed me my review unit of the PowerWatch, I had to fight the instinct to ask for a charger. This thermal-powered wearable doesn’t need one — it gets energy by converting your body heat into electricity. It’s been a year since I saw an early prototype of the PowerWatch — […]

Developers keep it current: The demand for electric car chargers rises

Yet one of the main talking points is the residents’ electric car chargers.  Due for completion in 2019, the 58-storey apartment block in Canary Wharf on the River Thames will have charging points at 20 per cent of parking spaces, with plans to add 20 per cent more in the future. This increased interest in […]

EV chargers have started popping up at UK Shell stations

As promised, Shell is adding electric vehicle charging to its UK petrol stations. “Shell Recharge” is already already available at three locations in Holloway (London), Derby and Whyteleafe (Surrey). A further seven sites across Greater London and Reading will be opened up before the end of the year. Ten stations, while welcome for EV owners, […]

Want to beat LA traffic? Chargers QB Philip Rivers has found a way

Slogging through traffic in Southern California is about as pleasurable as being slowly eaten by bears or being the awkward third wheel on a bad first date. It feels like it’s never going to end. After the team relocated to Los Angeles from San Diego, Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers decided that three hours wasted each […]

Porsche installs its first high-speed electric car chargers

Porsche knows that electric vehicles are the future, and it just took a big step to prepare for that future. The performance car brand just opened a new office in Berlin, and the new facility includes the company’s first two ultra-fast 800-volt chargers (one is pictured below). They can ‘only’ charge existing EVs at up […]

Tesla Installing More Urban Chargers as BMW and Nissan Build Road-Trip Waypoints

– Until now, Tesla has focused the development of its Supercharger fast-charging network on enabling longer-distance travel. Meanwhile, Nissan and BMW, the two automakers who were bullish on urban charger installations several years before Tesla started its network, have largely put their focus on urban infrastructure of the sort commuters might use. Now, in something of a […]