Charged Electric Vehicles Magazine
Issue 75: January-March 2026
Featuring
A closer look at hairpin motor windings
Hairpin windings squeeze more copper into a motor’s stator, but the gains depend on frequency, current, insulation and process cost. The evocatively-named hairpin winding has been touted by various motor manufacturers as the next step in the evolution of EV traction motors for, oh, a good 10-15 years at this point. But the traditional process… Read more »
DC-America’s prefab charging platforms offer flexibility as well as savings
A modular approach to solving EV charging’s installation bottleneck. At the moment, the big bad bottleneck for commercial EV deployment is charging infrastructure. However, the problems don’t generally have to do with the hardware or software—EVSE manufacturers offer a wide selection of AC and DC chargers, functionality and reliability are steadily improving, and sophisticated software tools… Read more »
As other automakers retrench, Toyota has four new EVs in the works
WTH is Toyota thinking? Is it serving up new EVs as the US market collapses? Not at all—its methodical approach validates the EV transition. When an auto reporter gets pretty much the same question on the same day from two different people—one at a major auto brand, the other a fellow reporter—his attention is naturally… Read more »
How the biggest US EV charging networks got their starts
The US charging network 2.0—The evolution of a revolution: Part 1 The US public charging “network” didn’t emerge from a single master plan. It grew out of grants, bankruptcies, corporate settlements, acquisitions—and one automaker that decided it couldn’t wait. Since the current generation of EVs emerged more than 15 years ago, the “network” of EV… Read more »