CA Gov. Brown Signs Six EV-Friendly Bills To Celebrate Plug-in Day
For years, the state of California has been at the front of EV-friendly policies with generous tax rebates, single occupant EV-access to miles of high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes, and more EV models...
View ArticleTesla Model S: The Most Versatile Charging Experience Ever?
Imagine owning an electric car which can not only charge from any power outlet you happen upon, but can charge at a powerful enough rate that stopping for lunch somewhere and charging from the spare...
View ArticleUnplugging Is Uncool, But So Is Hogging The Power
It’s a tricky problem. You need to charge up, but there’s someone else parked at the charging station and they appear to have been there a while. They’ve finished charging and you need to get on your...
View ArticleModel S Plugs in to CHAdeMO Rapid Charging
It’s well known that when you buy a Tesla Model S with Supercharger capability, you get free access to Tesla’s proprietary Supercharger network, recharging your high-end all-electric sedan with around...
View ArticleVolkswagen, Ecotricity Sign Deal For Zero-Emissions Driving
Those suspicious of the environmental benefits of electric cars often claim that the carbon footprint from the electricity used to power them negates their benefits of not having a tailpipe, but thanks...
View ArticleDoes the Nissan LEAF Have Problems Charging in Public?
The Nissan LEAF, with more than 83,000 now sold worldwide, is one of the world’s most recognisable and loved EVs. But has all that attention meant that LEAFs are now to shy to charge in public? Based...
View ArticleUK CHAdeMO Quick Charge Stations: Are They Really Restricted To 80 Percent?
Ever since the Nissan LEAF went on sale in the UK in March 2011, we’ve seen more and more CHAdeMO DC quick charge stations appear across the country, first at Nissan LEAF dealers and then at motorway...
View ArticleIn Japan, BMW i3 Gets CHAdeMO, Slow Charge Connector Hidden Under Hood.
Just like many other industries, the electric car world is awash with competing standards, most of which seem to govern the connectors and processes by which electric car battery packs are charged....
View ArticleBill Us By The kWh Used, Say EV Drivers Of Public Charging
Providers of public charging stations need to ditch the smart cards and start charging owners per kilowatt-hour for the electricity they use while charging. That’s the message from a study released on...
View ArticleCould Your EV One Day Power Your Office? Nissan Says ‘Yes’
As most people who work in a large office will tell you, it’s rare these days to work for a company where every employee is guaranteed a parking space in the company lot. In fact, unless you happen to...
View ArticleWaitrose Proves EVs Go The Distance, With Suitable Charging
Electric cars are often portrayed by mass media and ardent petrol heads as expensive toys with limited range, incapable of life outside of a busy city like London. They are, we’re told by everyone from...
View ArticleNew Device Gives Stranded EVs a Jump Start: From Another EV
Running out of charge is about the worse thing that can happen to any electric car owner, and while it rarely happens, it's an often-cited reason why people won't make the switch to a plug-in car....
View ArticleOpen Charge Alliance Officially Launches To Make Public Charging Easier
If you're one of the many EV drivers who occasionally makes a trip beyond the range of your car, you'll know how utterly frustrating it can be to arrive at a public charging station to find you don't...
View ArticleRapidly Charging from London to West Wales on the M4
I truly believe that the availability of charging is one of the keys to unlocking the general acceptance of electric cars. More so if this charging is ‘rapid’. When competing against an internal...
View ArticleFrench Car-Sharing Firm Bolloré To Take Over London’s EV Charging Network
A subsidiary of Bolloré, the French firm responsible for Autolib, the largest and most successful electric car sharing schemes in the world, is to take over day-to-day operations of London’s electric...
View ArticleSystem-wide Charging Station Software Update Could Cause Problems Next...
Imagine if one of the country’s biggest gas station chains planned an evening-long, nationwide system maintenance that resulted in the gas pumps only dispensing fuel to regular customers of that...
View ArticleUS East to West Road Trip in Model S Completed – Total Cost: $0.00
The Great US Roadtrip is a staple of many people’s lives when growing up. Whether they tagged along on a family trip when younger, expressed their freedom as a young adult or – as with me – just...
View ArticleMusk: Tesla Teams To Tackle Model S Coast-to-Coast Trip, Set New Three-Day...
Tesla’s larger-than life CEO Elon Musk is a very competitive man. Hours after father and daughter team John and Jill completed the first ever Tesla Model S U.S. Supercharger coast-to-coast trip, Musk...
View ArticleHawaii Sponsored Bill Aims to Fine Parking Companies for not Providing EV...
Hawaii Senate Bill 2651, set for a public hearing on 30 January, aims to ensure that all large car parks provide dedicated electric car charging and parking or face a fine. The Bill was sponsored by...
View ArticleUK Charging Network Reaches 100,000 Charging Session Milestone
On Tuesday 4 February the Charge Your Car (CYC) network in the UK logged its 100,000th charging session. The network has 1535 charging stations located mainly in the North-East of England, Scotland...
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