The City of Szczecinin, Poland has signed an agreement with Polish electric bus manufacturer Solaris to purchase four 12-meter Urbino 12 and 10 articulated Urbino 18 electric buses. The vehicles will increase Szczecin’s fleet of Solaris buses to a total of 30. They will be operated by the city’s public transport company, Szczecińskie Przedsiębiorstwo Autobusowe…. Read more »
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Toyota, Lexus drivers in New York City to get free EV charging in deal with Revel Transit
Toyota Motor and Revel, an operator of an EV taxi service and a network of high-speed charging stations, have signed an agreement that will give owners of Toyota and Lexus EVs complimentary access to Revel’s DC fast charging network in New York City. The agreement runs through October 14, 2027. Revel, which began life as… Read more »
Electrify America opens expanded technology campus
US EV charging network Electrify America has opened a new Electrify America Technology Campus near its headquarters in Reston, Virginia. The 32,000-square-foot facility is designed for advanced validation and stress-testing of equipment and components in real-world conditions. It includes 22 hyper-fast chargers, the Center of Excellence Lab and the Technology Development Lab. The labs are… Read more »
No garage, no driveway, no problem: itselectric is bringing curbside EV charging to the US
itselectric establishes best practices for curbside EV chargers. Q&A with itselectric co-founder and CEO Nathan King. For the last few years, the EV industry has been agonizing over the problem of providing charging for urban drivers who depend on on-street parking, and have no possibility of installing chargers at their homes. EV journalists, including your… Read more »
Revel partners with computer vision startup Juice to introduce “face ID for EVs”
Brooklyn-based electric mobility and infrastructure platform Revel has formed a partnership with California-based startup Juice to integrate its automatic charging technology across Revel’s public fast charging stations in New York City. Juice uses computer vision to identify a user’s unique vehicle, and can then initiate charging sessions and complete payments with no need for physical… Read more »
Stellantis Invests $406 million to prepare for EV production at Michigan facilities
Stellantis has announced new investment of some $406 million at three Michigan facilities to support its “multi-energy” strategy, and confirmed that the Sterling Heights Assembly Plant (SHAP) will be the company’s first US plant to build a fully electric vehicle. Stellantis is investing $235.5 million at its Sterling Heights Assembly Plant (SHAP) to prepare for… Read more »
Boundary Testing Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment (EVSE)
Electric vehicle charging station manufacturers face a number of challenges, including connectivity issues, component problems, and incompatibility. How do you know if your DC charger can handle the boundary cases it may face in the field? Well, you test. However, testing has its own challenges. Along with testing the charging process and safety mechanisms, one… Read more »
2024 Chevy Equinox EV: Is this the electric SUV for average Americans?
It took far too long to get here, but it may have been worth the wait. The 2024 Chevrolet Equinox EV, GM’s smallest and least expensive battery-electric vehicle, is finally rolling into dealerships across the country. Now we’ve driven it, and it’s good. You can view the electric Equinox as the anti-Tesla. Where the Silicon… Read more »
How Irdeto is protecting EV charging infrastructure from cyber-attacks
Q&A with Irdeto’s Senior Vice President of New Markets and Senior Director of Electric Vehicles. Execs and experts across the EV infrastructure ecosystem agree on the importance of connectivity. Connecting EV charging stations to the cloud helps companies maintain reliability, provides valuable usage statistics, and enables cutting-edge features such as roaming, Plug & Charge and… Read more »
Companies flock to CharIN EV charging proving ground Testival
“You wish to go to the Testival?” with apologies to Stephen Sondheim, is a phrase that should have been on the minds of all stakeholders in the e-mobility sector recently. The Testival is one part of the 2024 North American Testival and Conference, hosted by CharIN, an international industry association with 300 members that works… Read more »