Nissan encourages us that it hasn’t forgot about the charging infrastructure found today in Europe, as the company has announced the expansion of fast chargers in the region by almost 20% – all on its own. The plan is to install some 1,000 additional CHAdeMOs over 18 months. According to Nissan,…
2 weeks ago by Mark Kane 28Comments
IEA: TESLA HAS THE MOST AGGRESSIVE ELECTRIC VEHICLE SALES GOALS, BATTERY COST REDUCTIONS, AND CHARGING CAPABILITIES Electric vehicles are on a major roll, and the International Energy Agency’s annual report on the market makes for lively reading this year. The IEA’s Global EV Outlook 2017 report notes that global plug-in vehicle sales…
4 months ago by EVANNEX 16Comments
The new 2018 Nissan LEAF is going to need more than the standard 50 kW DC fast chargers of today can offer the outgoing model. And while we have yet to hear any specs of significance on the new LEAF (other than some spyshot of mules out testing, and a quick teaser…
4 months ago by Mark Kane 49Comments
The CHAdeMO Association demonstrated at Ise City in Japan’s Mie prefecture, its new High Power Charging technology that will be available through the revised CHAdeMO standard (ver. 1.2), that was formally announced on March 24th, 2017. The key upgrade of CHAdeMO is officially increasing the maximum current from 125 A to…
6 months ago by Mark Kane 62Comments
Integrated Infrastructure Solutions GmbH (INTIS) in partnership with CHAdeMO member THD, has developed a 30 kW wireless charging system using the CHAdeMO standard in existing electric cars. Specifically: two Nissan LEAFs and a, Citroën Berlingo BEV Typically we have seen wireless charging systems that were using the cars on-board charger, which was…
7 months ago by Mark Kane 20Comments
Nissan released a video presenting one of additional advantages of owning an electric vehicle – they make the world more resilient in case of emergency situations. We already seen on several occasions when a disaster or has cut fuel and electricity supply short. And in most cases, electricity was the first…
7 months ago by Mark Kane 23Comments
BMW continues to make news with regards to electric vehicle infrastructure and customer charging programs. Coming off yesterday’s Nissan partnership news, today BMW has announced the expansion of their ChargeNow by EVgo program. The ChargeNow by EVgo program was initiated by BMW in November of 2015, and was active in…
9 months ago by Tom Moloughney 10Comments
Nissan and BMW for some time now have collaboratively been supporting the expansion of the EVgo fast charging network in America, offering a period of free use for its new customers. Now according to a press release, the fruit of that partnership is 174 EVgo-networked 50 kW chargers, installed across…
9 months ago by Mark Kane 32Comments
CHAdeMO Association has announced reaching 13,598 CHAdeMO fast chargers installed worldwide, which is 35% more than year ago. Entering 2017, the U.S. and Europe has crossed milestones of 2,000 and 4,000 CHAdeMOs stations respectively. Japan – 6,945 Europe – 4,051 U.S. – 2,081 other – 521 * part of U.S. and European…
9 months ago by Mark Kane 35Comments
Trying to find a necessity for its V2V ORCA INCEPTIVE on-board CHAdeMO to CHAdeMO charge system (kinda just rolls off the tongue doesn’t it?), Andromeda Power demonstrates how the Nissan LEAF could rescue a Tesla Model S. Oh really? However, it seems like a lot of work and equipment to make…
10 months ago by Mark Kane 37Comments
Nissan has launched another vehicle-to-grid installation in Europe (the first at one of its own locations) for use with LEAF and e-NV200 electric vehicles Eight Enel V2G bi-directional CHAdeMO chargers have been installed at the Nissan Technical Centre Europe (which is found in the UK) as the Japanese company now intends to…
12 months ago by Mark Kane 17Comments
Sales data of plug-in electric cars that are equipped for DC fast charging (of any standard) lead us to some interesting conclusions. The current leader – CHAdeMO – has lost some steam over the first nine-months of 2016, as Tesla’s proprietary Supercharging standard has a shot at becoming the most popular charging option among…
12 months ago by Mark Kane 74Comments
