Apple announced the eagerly awaited iPhone 15 yesterday during its annual September event which also revealed the new Series 9 Apple Watch and a suite of accessories. The theme for this year’s event seemed to be Apple’s focus on sustainability. The new Apple Watch was revealed as its first-ever carbon-neutral product, reportedly meeting its strict […]
EVgo Inc., one of the leaders in EV public fast-charging infrastructure in the US announced this week the first integration of an Alexa-enabled EV charging experience with Amazon and its PlugShare public EV charging location finder and mapping solution. Drivers with Alexa-enabled vehicles or accessories can now ask Alexa to help them find and navigate […]
GM announced this week that it will expand vehicle-to-home (V2H) bidirectional charging technology across its range of Ultium-based electric vehicles (EVs) by 2026. V2H enables EV users to transfer energy from their vehicle to an enabled home to offset electricity needs during peak times and act as a backup during power outages. The first vehicles […]
New regulations have been introduced by the UK Government which place stringent requirements on public rapid EV charge points, demanding 99% reliability. They must also offer real-time status updates and display the cost of using a unit of energy (pence per kilowatt hour, kWh). Charging providers who fail to comply with the new regulations could […]
On Wednesday 26th July 2023, seven major automotive OEMs announced that they were forming a new company to provide EV charging in the US. The group includes General Motors, Stellantis, Hyundai Motor, Kia, Honda, BMW and Mercedes Benz. The new venture aims to roll out 30,000 EV chargers in North America, starting along major highways and […]
On July 2nd Tesla announced its second-quarter results, revealing that it had produced almost 480,000 vehicles and delivered over 466,000 vehicles throughout the quarter. This was an all-time record with deliveries up 10% from Q1’23 and almost 83% higher than the same quarter in the previous year. Tesla’s deliveries have increased rapidly over the past 3 […]
IONITY, one of Europe’s largest EV fast-charging network operators, has announced it will collaborate with Alpitronic, a leading supplier of high-power EV charging stations. The first Alpitronic chargers are planned to be installed at IONITY HPC-stations by the end of 2023. Alpitronic joins Tritium and ABB as suppliers to IONITY’s network which has a target […]
Following the recent announcement that Ford will adopt Tesla’s NACS charging connector in North America, General Motors (GM) has also announced this week that it will follow suit, integrating the connector into its electric vehicles starting in 2025. This will open up access to Tesla’s 12,000 superchargers located throughout North America. Despite the agreements between […]
LG has developed a new energy storage system, Prime+, for the US residential market that combines two 10-hour batteries or 16-hour modules in parallel, providing 19.2 kWh to 32 kWh of capacity and a maximum 9.6 kW output from the inverter. This is LG’s first LG-branded residential energy storage system for the North American market […]
Ford has announced that in North America, starting in Spring 2024, it will get access to Tesla’s supercharger network using an adapter that will be sent to all owners. Following this it will integrate the Tesla connector into its new electric vehicles, allowing them to charge at Tesla charging stations without an adapter. Whilst Tesla’s […]