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 »
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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 »
ChargePoint announces support for Megawatt Charging System
The Megawatt Charging System (MCS), a new charging standard for heavy-duty EVs that industry experts call a game-changer for electric trucks, is in the final stages of standardization, and commercial deployments are already starting to appear. The latest charging provider to announce support for MCS is ChargePoint. The MCS cable and connector will be available… Read more »
Volkswagen increases power of ID.3 motor
German automaker Volkswagen has launched an upgraded version of its ID.3 electric compact car containing a stronger and more efficient electric motor, providing more power and economical consumption. In Germany, the ID.3 Pro S model now delivers 170 kW as standard. Customers in other markets can decide after purchase whether they want to increase the… Read more »
EcoG helps EVSE manufacturers streamline the process of bringing new products to market
Enabling the next phase of EV charging station manufacturing. We tech writers often refer to “ecosystems,” and biologists may shake their heads at our appropriation of the term, but the analogy is an apt one in many ways. A biological ecosystem has its charismatic megafauna (elephants, lions, whales), but it couldn’t function without its less-glamorous… Read more »
Retail chains aren’t deploying the EV chargers they’ve promised
It seems like every day, we read about another company pledging to roll out lots of public charging stations across the country. Automakers, utilities, oil companies, hotel and apartment chains, restaurants and retailers—everybody is (or claims to be) getting into the act. Even your favorite EV pundit abandoned his usual skepticism and gushed that, if… Read more »