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  • UK Proposes Law To Switch Off EV Home Chargers During Peak Hours

    Going into effect next year, a new law aims to protect the grid from excessive strain; it won’t apply to public chargers, though. The United Kingdom plans to pass legislation that will see EV home and workplace chargers being switched off at peak times to avoid blackouts. Announced by Trans...
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  • Will Shell Oil Become An Industry Leader In EV Charging?

    Shell, Total and BP are the three Europe-based oil multinationals, that started getting into the EV charging game back in 2017, and now they at every stage of the charging value chain. One of the major player in the UK charging market is Shell. At numerous petrol stations (aka forecourts), Shell ...
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  • California helps fund largest deployment of electric semis yet—and charging for them

    California environmental agencies plan to launch what they claim will be the largest deployment of heavy-duty electric commercial trucks in North America thus far. The South Coast Air Quality Management District (AQMD), California Air Resources Board (CARB), and California Energy Commission (CEC)...
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  • Japanese Market Did Not Jump Start, Many EV Chargers Were Rarely Used

    Japan is one of the countries that was early to the EV game, with the launch of Mitsubishi i-MIEV and Nissan LEAF more than a decade ago.   The cars were supported by incentives, and the rollout of AC charging points and DC fast chargers that utilize the Japanese CHAdeMO standard (for severa...
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  • UK Government Wants EV Charge Points To Become A ‘British Emblem’

    Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has expressed his desire to make a British electric car charge point that becomes as “iconic and recognisable as the British phone box”. Speaking this week, Shapps said the new charge point would be unveiled at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow this November. Th...
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  • The USA Government Just Changed the EV Game.

    The EV revolution is already under way, but it may have just had its watershed moment. The Biden administration announced a target for electric vehicles to make up 50% of all vehicle sales in the U.S. by 2030 early on Thursday. That includes battery, plug-in hybrid and fuel cell electric vehicles...
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  • What Is OCPP & Why Is It Important To Electric Car Adoption?

    Electric vehicle charging stations are an emerging technology. As such, charging station site hosts and EV drivers are quickly learning all the various terminology and concepts. For example, J1772 at first glance may seem like a random sequence of letters and numbers. Not so. Over time, J1772 wil...
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  • What Things You Need to Know When Buying a Home EV Charger

    Home EV Charger are a useful equitment to supply your electric car. Here are the top 5 things to consider when buying a Home EV Charger.   NO.1 Charger Location Matters When you are going to install the Home EV Charger outdoors, where it is less protected from the elements, you must pay atte...
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  • USA: EV Charging Will Get $7.5B In Infrastructure Bill

    After months of turmoil, the Senate has finally come to a bipartisan infrastructure deal. The bill is expected to be worth over $1 trillion over eight years, included in the agreed-upon deal is $7.5 billion to fun electric car charging infrastructure. More specifically, the $7.5 billion will go t...
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  • Joint Tech has obtianed the first ETL Certificate for North America Market

    It’s such a great milestone that Joint Tech has obtained the first ETL Certificate for North America Market in Mainland China EV Charger field.
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  • GRIDSERVE reveals plans for the Electric Highway

    GRIDSERVE has revealed its plans to transform electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure in the UK, and has officially launched the GRIDSERVE Electric Highway. This will entail a UK-wide network of more than 50 high power ‘Electric Hubs’ with 6-12 x 350kW chargers in ...
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  • Volkswagen delivers electric cars to help Greek island go green

    ATHENS, June 2 (Reuters) – Volkswagen delivered eight electric cars to Astypalea on Wednesday in a first step towards turning the Greek island’s transport green, a model the government hopes to expand to the rest of the country. Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, who has made green e...
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  • Colorado charging infrastructure needs to reach electric vehicle goals

    This study analyzes the number, type, and distribution of EV chargers needed to meet Colorado’s 2030 electric vehicle sales goals. It quantifies the public, workplace, and home charger needs for passenger vehicles at the county level and estimates the costs to meet these infrastructure needs. To ...
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  • How to charge your electric car

    All you need to charge the electric car is a socket at home or at work. In addition, more and more fast chargers provide a safety net for those who need quick replenishment of power. There are numbers of options for charging an electric car outside the house or when traveling. Both simple AC char...
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  • What are Mode 1, 2, 3 and 4?

    In the charging standard, charging is divided into a mode called “mode”, and this describes, among other things, the degree of safety measures during charging. Charging mode – MODE – in short says something about safety during charging. In English these are called charging...
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  • ABB to build 120 DC charging stations in Thailand

    ABB has won a contract from the Provincial Electricity Authority (PEA) in Thailand to install more than 120 fast-charging stations for electric cars across the country by the end of this year. These will be 50 kW columns. Specifically, 124 units of ABB’s Terra 54 fast-charging station will be ins...
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  • Charging points for LDVs expand to over 200 million and supply 550 TWh in the Sustainable Development Scenario

    EVs require access to charging points, but the type and location of chargers are not exclusively the choice of EV owners. Technological change, government policy, city planning and power utilities all play a role in EV charging infrastructure. The location, distribution and types of electric vehi...
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  • How Biden Plans to Build 500 EV Charging Stations

    President Joe Biden has proposed spending at least $15 billion to begin rolling out electric vehicle charging stations, with the goal of reaching 500,000 charging stations nationwide by 2030. (TNS) — President Joe Biden has proposed spending at least $15 billion to begin rolling out electric vehi...
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  • Singapore EV Vision

    Singapore aims to phase out Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) vehicles and have all vehicles run on cleaner energy by 2040. In Singapore, where most of our power is generated from natural gas, we can be more sustainable by switching from internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles to electric vehicl...
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  • Regional charging infrastructure requirements in Germany through 2030

    To support 5.7 million to 7.4 million electric vehicles in Germany, representing a market share of 35% to 50% of passenger vehicle sales, 180,000 to 200,000 public chargers will be needed by 2025, and a total of 448,000 to 565,000 chargers will be needed by 2030. Chargers installed through 2018 r...
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