The National Charging Experience Consortium (ChargeX) is a collaboration among DOE national labs, EV charging industry players and consumer advocates. Its mission is to gauge and improve the customer experience with public EV charging infrastructure in the US. Now the consortium has released a report that recommends 26 common EV charging error codes to enable… Read more »
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New version of Chargeway EV routing app embeds real-time charger info for drivers
EV drivers shouldn’t have to understand kilowatts—or drive up to a dead charger. Chargeway has an answer for all that. The Chargeway EV charging app may still be the best electric-car idea you’ve never heard of. Not as well-known or as widely distributed as Plugshare or A Better Route Planner (ABRP), it remains among the… Read more »
bp orders $100 million worth of Tesla EV chargers
Does bp’s purchase of $100 million worth of Tesla EV chargers signal that the British oil giant is preparing for a future beyond petroleum? Has it decided to join ‘em instead of trying to beat ‘em? Well, not just yet. The company has said it plans to invest “up to $1 billion in EV charging… Read more »
California reaches 10,000 fast charger goal a year ahead of schedule
California politicians and officials recently gathered at a shopping center in Union City, the site of a new EVgo DC fast charging site, to celebrate the achievement of the state’s goal of deploying 10,000 fast chargers, a year ahead of the predicted date. The California Energy Commission (CEC) is the lead state agency supporting the… Read more »
Why are public EV chargers so unreliable? The industry’s history provides clues.
The parlous state of public EV charging is—among other things—a public relations nightmare that’s surely holding back wider EV adoption. A number of automakers and other EV industry players seem to be convinced that ceding control of the US public charging scene to Tesla, whose Supercharger network is by all accounts far more reliable than… Read more »
EV charging is changing, 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 Part 4: Behind the scenes as seven automakers counter Tesla’s Superchargers EV charging is changing, but much remains to be settled A flurry of news over less than a year permanently altered the US landscape for… Read more »
Electrify America to add Tesla’s NACS connector to its EV charging stations by 2025
The writing is on the wall, and public charging networks are making plans to add Tesla’s NACS connector to its EV charging stations (or to add more). Electrify America/Electrify Canada, which operates some 850 stations with about 4,000 individual chargers, appears to be taking a more cautious approach than some. The company says it will… Read more »
Winners and losers emerge as the Tesla charging bandwagon gathers speed
In a decade of covering the EV industry, I can’t recall ever seeing such immediate and near-universal praise for any development as I have for the news that Ford and GM will partner with Tesla to give their EVs access to the Supercharger network. The news broke in two waves, each of which swamped the… Read more »
CharIN is not thrilled about the Ford/Tesla charging deal
Ford and Tesla recently reached an agreement that will give Ford EV customers access to Tesla’s network of 12,000 North American Superchargers starting in 2024. What’s more, Ford says it will equip future EVs with Tesla’s NACS charging port starting in 2025. The deal is the talk of the EV industry, and most of the… Read more »
Is the Ford/Tesla charging agreement as big a deal as everyone thinks?
Unless you’ve just emerged from an internet-free retreat, you’ve surely heard that Tesla and Ford are planning to cooperate to open up the former’s Supercharger network to drivers of the latter’s EVs. The announcement quickly took over every EV-related news feed. Is this deal really as “surprising,” “unprecedented” and “game-changing” as people are saying? Yes… Read more »