The reliability (or lack thereof) of public EV chargers is nothing less than a scandal, and the Biden Administration, which has championed a major expansion of the nation’s EV charging infrastructure, is well aware of the problems. Now the Administration has opened applications for the Electric Vehicle Charger Reliability and Accessibility Accelerator, which will provide… Read more »
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EV charging is changing, Part 4: Behind the scenes as seven automakers counter Tesla’s Superchargers
Part 1: How automakers’ disappointment in Electrify America drove them into Tesla’s arms Part 2: No, NACS is not today’s Tesla connector Part 3: Why Tesla’s NACS is unlikely to kill CCS EV charging is changing, but much remains to be settled A flurry of news over less than a year permanently altered the US landscape… Read more »
ABB e-mobility earns CTEP and NTEP certifications for DC fast chargers
In much of the US, public EV chargers will soon be required to display the amount of electricity dispensed and the amount charged. This mirrors regulations that have long applied to gas pumps, and is intended to assure drivers that they’re being accurately charged for the electricity they buy. These regulations are already in force… Read more »
Impact Clean Power develops GigafactoryX in Poland to produce a heavy vehicle battery
Polish company Impact Clean Power Technology (Grenevia Group) has unveiled a rendering of its planned GigafactoryX, a large-scale battery factory for EVs and energy storage in Pruszków, near Warsaw. The facility will produce batteries with maximum dimensions of 1400 mm x 1000 mm x 400 mm and a maximum weight of 500 kg. The production… Read more »
Seven automakers unite to create massive new public EV charging network in North America
A lot of folks were doubtless still digesting the details of Tesla’s near-takeover of the North American public EV charging scene—and along comes another blockbuster development on the infrastructure front. Seven of the world’s major automakers—GM, Stellantis, BMW, Mercedes, Hyundai, Kia and (oddly enough) Honda—have announced plans to form a joint venture to build a… Read more »
2025 Volkswagen ID.Buzz: Electric microbus for North America appears, at last
Iconic design, two-tone paint, three rows, AWD—whatever you call it, the Buzz won’t be cheap. The 2025 Volkswagen ID.Buzz electric minivan has been coming to North America for a long, long time. The concept for an all-EV reboot of the classic Type 2 Microbus appeared in 2016 and was confirmed for production in August 2017…. Read more »
Circle K installs ABB 180 kW DC fast chargers at Virginia store
Convenience store and gas retail chain Circle K has opened its latest EV charging site at a store in Wytheville, Virginia, along Interstate 81. This site is the first to be equipped with ABB E-mobility’s US-manufactured Terra 184 DC fast chargers, which provide up to 180 kW of power. ABB’s Terra 184 EV chargers were… Read more »
How to install high-powered EV charging now, without expensive and time consuming electrical service upgrades
Sponsored by Pioneer Power Solutions. As the deployment of high-powered EV chargers continues to grow across the US, the issue of connecting them into a facility’s existing electrical system becomes a complex problem. Level 3 EV chargers consume a lot of power, installing five of them can easily add 2,000 amps to the existing electrical… Read more »
Detecting latent defects in electric motors with partial discharge
Sponsored by Marposs. Motor testing is designed to check the integrity of an electric motor through the use of equipment that identifies potential issues within the motor. The main objective of motor testing is to reveal latent problems and to prevent unnecessary failure by evaluating static parameters like insulation, wire damage and electrical current leakage, as well… Read more »
Accelerating Electric Drive Engineering With An Integrated Multiphysics Design Workflow
Predicting motor electromagnetics, noise, heat transfer, stresses, or simulating specific phenomena on an electric drive is technologically challenging and requires new fields of expertise and mindsets. Siemens offers an integrated multiphysics workflow for electric drive engineering. In this 60-minute webinar, Sudhi Uppuluri and Benoit Magneville from Siemens explain how a collaborative and flexible ecosystem connects… Read more »