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Electrify America has restored its full network of electric vehicle charging stations after a partial outage. It took most of its high-powered (150 kW and 350 kW) chargers offline Friday after supplier Huber+Suhner identified a “safety issue” linked to liquid-cooled charging cables. “The recommendation from Huber+Suhner came following an isolated event experienced at a private […]
Volkswagen-backed Electrify America has been busy building up an infrastructure of 150kW and 350kW-capable electric vehicle charging sites, even before there are any production cars on the road to use them. However, now it has had to take most of them offline at the advice of Huber+Suhner, the supplier of its charging cables. According to […]
Californians now have access to some of the fastest electric vehicle chargers on the planet… even if people can’t really use those chargers yet. VW’s Electrify America has installed California’s first publicly available 350kW EV chargers at Simon’s San Francisco Premium Outlets in Livermore Valley, 40 miles from San Francisco proper. The shopping location now […]
If electric cars are going to become a staple of American roads, they’re going to need chargers near prominent routes. And VW’s Electrify America is about to address that. The company has revealed plans to install the first EV charging stations along the Ohio Turnpike, a 241-mile toll road meant to speed up trips in […]
Volkswagen’s court-mandated subsidiary, Electrify America, has announced its second investment of $ 200 million into the nation’s electric vehicle charging infrastructure, and not a moment too soon. Plug-in car sales in the United States have already surpassed last year’s record of nearly 200,000 deliveries, thanks to Tesla’s rollout of the Model 3, and we’ve still got […]
Russian Railways has begun works on the electrification of a railway line in Iran, the company said. Read more The project – worth $ 1.2 billion – will electrify a railroad connecting the Iranian city of Garmsar near Tehran with Ince Burun near the border with Turkmenistan. The length of the Garmsar-Ince Burun railway line […]
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 […]
– Electrify America is the Volkswagen-bankrolled organization that exists to atone with regulators for the automaker’s diesel scandal, and it’s gearing up to install thousands of chargers across the United States in an effort that is expected eventually to outdo Tesla’s Supercharger network as the biggest vehicle-charging infrastructure buildout ever. – A Brand-Agnostic and (Mostly) Future-Proof […]
There are new details on McLaren‘s ongoing quest to build an all-electric supercar. Autocar reports that the specialty carmaker has been testing an EV mule to evaluate driver engagement and has discovered it’s still a big leap to fully electrifying a track car. The biggest stumbling block remains the battery technology and the enormous energy […]
XL Hybrids, a company specializing in converting gas- and diesel-powered company vehicles to electric-hybrids, has raised $ 22 million in a series D round of funding. The round included participation from IKEA Group (IKEA) and Constellation Technology Ventures (CTV) — the VC arm of U.S. energy giant Exelon — in addition to a number of “large […]
