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 »
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Emerging strategies to improve EV charger uptimes (New Report)
Sponsored by Franklin Electric. Uptime is a critical factor in the success of public fast charging networks. It measures the functional availability of chargers, and is an indicator of the reliability of the charging infrastructure. A high level of uptime is essential for EV drivers, as it ensures that they have access to charging when… Read more »
Developing standards for EV charging reliability
Q&A with Frank Menchaca, President of SAE International’s Sustainable Mobility Solutions The reliability—or rather, the unreliability—of public EV charging stations is nothing less than a scandal, and it’s holding back EV adoption. This tragedy involves a cast of many players—automakers, charger manufacturers, network operators, electric utilities, and often a lot more—and all need to start… Read more »
SAE International launches initiatives centered on EV charging station reliability
The abysmal dependability of public chargers is a major problem, and fixing it is going to require some serious technical expertise and industry-wide cooperation. So it’s encouraging to see industry heavyweight SAE International, which calls itself “the oldest and largest technical society for engineers in the US, and the largest mobility standards organization in the… Read more »
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