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Corri-Door Charging Infrastructure Project Gets Underway In France
With the Corri-Door project, 200 new fast charging points will be rolled out across France by December 2015. They will be located along major motorways operated by the SANEF Group (SANEF, SAPN), one of the original partners, and APRR and Vinci Autoroutes (ASF, COFIROUTE, ESCOTA), as well as in nearby shopping centres.
10 July 2015
Charging
Mitsubishi To Install Fast Chargers At All 700 Dealerships In Japan
Outlander PHEV Is Indeed Fast-Charge Capable Mitsubishi will follow Nissan's by installing fast charger at all of its dealerships in Japan. By March of 2016, all 700 of Mitsubishi's dealership in Japan will have at least one fast charger. "The quick chargers, which will be mostly available 24 hours a day, can recharge about 80% of a car battery in half an hour. Users will...
05 December 2014
Charging
Car Charging Group Is Now US' Largest Charging Services Company With Over 13,430 Points
ECOtality charging stations As Part Of The Deal, 110 Blink DC Fast Chargers Now Will Belong To CarCharging - as well as the remaining 191 in inventory Car Charging Group does not hide the fact that it's delighted to have acquired ECOtality's assets that originally cost approximately $230 million for just a fraction of that price. CarCharg...
18 October 2013
Charging
Plug In Vehicle Chargers: 4.3 Million Installed Units by 2022; Up From Only 442,000 Today
Commercial / Public Chargers Are Of Course Included in This 4.3 Million Figure According to Navigant Research, there's soon to be a big boom in the amount of installed chargers found worldwide. Residential Units Are Too...Though It's Looking Like Blink Won't Be Around Much Longer Today, Navigant predicts that there are roughly 442,000 plu...
10 October 2013
Charging
Prince Edward Island to Install 40 Public Chargers
The Gentle "Green" Island With a land area of only 2,190 square miles (roughly the size of Delaware), Canada's Prince Edward Island is perfectly sized for electric vehicles. To promote EVs, one city on Prince Edward Island will install 40 public charging stations. Yes...that's 40 in one city alone. The city of Summerside just received final approval to install 40 p...
01 October 2013
Charging
$16,000 in Chargers Net Iowa a $13 Return on Investment in 18 Months
In Iowa, nearly $16,000 was spent to cover the install of 3 ChargePoint stations. Those stations were put into use back in Spring of 2012. Each charge session on any of the three units cost only $1. To date, only 13 charge sessions have been documented on all 3 units combined. Running the math, the Des Moines Register suggests that Iowa may have made a big financial mistake in installin...
12 September 2013
General
Seldom Used Public Charging Stations Rile Up the Locals
EV Parking/Charging Spots in Bristol Not Used Often Enough What to do with these seldom used public charging stations? First, we'd argue that public chargers stll aren't a necessity. Workplace chargers? Yes. Home chargers? Of course. But the public ones are more or less out there serving the purpose of showing the general public that there's a substantial infrastr...
24 July 2013
Charging
Minnesota Pushes Forward With Plans to Install Dozens of Additional Charging Stations Despite Existing Ones Being "Seldom Used"
With only 250 pure electric vehicles sold in the state (figured provided by Minnesota Auto Dealers Association) of Minnesota in 2012, it stands to reason that the state's 100 or so public charging stations are "seldom used," as a report from local 5 Eyewitness News claims, but that isn't deterring the state from moving forward with plans for more chargers in the future. None of...
12 June 2013
General
US Navy Adding 9 Solar-Powered Charging Stations to Support Growing Electric Vehicle Fleet
If you'd of asked us a decade or so ago, we'd of believed the US Armed Forces would be the least likely to go electric. Hmm...Unloading Charge in a Hurry But that's not the case today. All division of the US Armed Forces now operate fully electric vehicles of some sort. And more are quickly being adding to the military's fleet . For instance, at Naval...
09 June 2013
Charging
Hubject Begins Integration of European Charging Network with Unique eRoaming Feature
Hubject Hubject GmbH, a company established in early 2012 by German companies BMW, Bosch, Daimler, EnBW, RWE and Siemens, announced the official start of install of its roaming system for charging points in Europe. Called eRoaming, the idea implemented by Hubject is to provide the largest possible number of charging points under one contract, regardless of country, owner...
08 June 2013
Charging
Charging Infrastructure in Europe to Grow by Leaps and Bounds to 3.1 Million Public Chargers by 2019
Ready for more future predictions? Maybe a Few Hundred Thousand of Each of These Too Frost & Sullivan's latest forward-looking plug-in vehicle report, titled "Strategic Technology and Market Analysis of Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure in Europe," focuses mainly on public charging station growth. The research firms says that Europe had only 7,250 ...
07 June 2013