Despite what you may hear on Fox News, which recently aired an anti-EV rant (the latest of many) that was riddled with misleading statements, by no means all conservatives are opposed to electric vehicles. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has been taking flak from both left and right since his administration approved a new rule… Read more »
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United Auto Workers union comes calling at Tesla factory
Tesla, the classic auto industry outsider, may soon be dealing with an issue that has defined Detroit for decades. The San Francisco Chronicle reports that the United Auto Workers has set up an organizing committee at Tesla’s Fremont factory. UAW President Bob King also said in August that union representatives had met with CEO Elon… Read more »
European Union official says chargers are the chicken for the EV egg
European Union Climate Commissioner Connie Hedegaard has come out in strong support of a pending plan to deploy 795,000 charging points in the EU by 2020, the Copenhagen Post reported. The proposal must be approved by the European Parliament and all 27 member states before it goes into effect. “We can finally end the discussion… Read more »
Union of Concerned Scientists releases comprehensive study of EVs’ impact on climate change and charging costs
The UCS's report is titled State of Charge: Electric Vehicles’ Global Warming Emissions and Fuel-Cost Savings Across the US.
Consumer’s Union: EVs cost a lot less per mile
Consumer Reports published an article on Thursday that confirms what most of us already know: EVs are cheaper to run than ICE vehicles. A lot cheaper.
Scania moves cautiously to expand electric truck production capacity in Europe
Truck manufacturer Scania plans to invest 70 million euros in its production site in Angers, France, to expand its capacity for electric truck production. The investment includes an extension of the existing facility and the adaptation of assembly lines for electric truck production. Scania’s Angers facility, in operation for more than three decades, serves customers… Read more »
Mercedes Benz Trucks adds a Lowliner variant to its eActros lineup of electric trucks
Mercedes Benz Trucks has added another variant to its eActros portfolio: the Mercedes Benz eActros Lowliner, designed specifically for high-volume transport. A Lowliner truck is a tractor unit with a particularly low coupling height, enabling the transport of trailers with increased interior volume. The new eActros Lowliner is based on the overall technological concept of… Read more »
bp pulse expands its EV charging network in Texas, Virginia and Louisiana
Even the oil giants (European-oriented ones at least) are getting into EV charging these days. bp pulse continues to expand its US network of public DC fast chargers. The company recently opened its first site in Louisiana, as well as two additional sites in Virginia and Texas. Each of the three new sites has 12… 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 »
EAS Batteries commercializes LFP cell using Asahi Kasei’s acetonitrile electrolyte Acetolyte
German battery manufacturer EAS Batteries has begun selling the UHP-601300-LFP-22, a 22 Ah large-format cylindrical LFP cell that uses Asahi Kasei’s Acetolyte electrolyte—an acetonitrile-based formulation that raises the cell’s continuous discharge power to 2,550 W/kg at 880 A (40 C), a 60% improvement over the same cell running conventional electrolyte at 1,550 W/kg and 550… Read more »