UK-based gas station network JET, owned by US-based conglomerate Phillips 66, reports growth in the adoption of its JET CHARGE rapid EV charging system at both company-owned and dealer-owned stations. JET’s network includes more than 330 stations, predominantly in northeast England, East Midlands and Scotland. Launched in February 2024, JET CHARGE features 150 kWh or… Read more »
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DG Matrix raises $20 million to commercialize its multi-port solid-state transformer solutions
DG Matrix provides solid-state transformer solutions for data centers and electrification projects such as microgrids and EV fleets. Now the company has secured $20 million in an oversubscribed seed funding round. Clean Energy Ventures led the round, and industry stalwarts including ABB, Cerberus Ventures, Chevron Technology Ventures and Piedmont Capital participated. The new funding brings… Read more »
NASCAR’s Head of Sustainability explains plan to reduce emissions
Has Hell frozen over? Is NASCAR going green? Well, yes and no. As company execs assured us at the recent Daytona 500 race, the races themselves will continue to be the noisy paean to petroleum that brings in so many millions of fans. However, there’s a lot that can be done both on and off… Read more »
NASCAR installs EV chargers at Daytona Beach headquarters
NASCAR, in collaboration with Florida Power & Light’s EVolution commercial charging solutions and electrical powerhouse ABB, has completed the installation of 30 Level 2 EV chargers at its Daytona Beach headquarters. This is one step in the organization’s Impact plan, which aims to reduce NASCAR’s carbon footprint to zero across its core operations by 2035…. Read more »
From SiC to Thin SiC: pushing power diodes to the next level
Sponsored by TTI. Nowadays, Silicon Carbide (SiC) and Gallium Nitride (GaN) are regular headline grabbers in the technical press. This is because devices constructed using these wide bandgap technologies are superior to their silicon counterparts across many critical metrics and open up new, previously unfeasible applications. This white paper describes the structure and applications of… Read more »
Software and maintenance—the keys to making fleet EV charging work?
Q&A with EO Charging’s John Walsh How is providing charging infrastructure for EV fleets like running a web site or a cell phone network? All of these worthy endeavors (among others) depend on a stack, which is a hip way of describing a system of interrelated hardware and software products that function together. Some layers… Read more »
Rexel Energy Solutions and ChargeLab partner to install EV chargers for Canadian businesses
Rexel Energy Solutions, a company that specializes in producing EV chargers and smart building controls, and ChargeLab, a provider of hardware-agnostic software that manages EV chargers, are working together to help Canadian businesses install more EV chargers. The two firms are partnering to offer a service to assist eligible companies in securing grant funding to… Read more »
DOE announces $1.7 billion in grants to convert facilities for EV production and support US auto workers
Some folks fear that the transition to EVs will lead to major job losses in the auto industry—and not without reason, as EVs require different (and fewer) components than legacy ICE vehicles. Auto plants around the country are in danger of downsizing or shutting down altogether, and helping these facilities to retool for EV production… Read more »
Turner Construction: Electrification is one of our most promising tools to reduce job site emissions
Turner Construction is the largest general contractor in the US, and it has a presence in 20 countries. Charged talked to Abby Roberts, Turner’s Sustainability Program Manager, to discuss the company’s goal of achieving net zero emissions on its job sites. Part of Turner’s strategy involves the use of electrified off-highway vehicles, and Roberts said… Read more »
EcoG partners with Switch EV, acquires Josev EV charging OS
EcoG, maker of an operating system that underpins a huge number of EV charging stations from many different manufacturers (see the feature article in our January-March 2024 issue), has acquired the EV charger operating system Josev as part of a new partnership with Josev creator Switch EV. Josev will be integrated into EcoG’s existing suite… Read more »