Tesla Nabs Former Trust Ford Sales Site In Belfast

Tesmanian reported that Tesla acquired a former Trust Ford sales site in Ireland. It’s located in the UK Parliamentary Constituency of Belfast South and this information comes from documents that Tesla submitted to the Belfast City […]

Electrify America Completes Its First of Two Electric Vehicle Fast Charging Cross-Country Routes with the Second Route Across the United States to be Completed by September

The network continues to expand at a rapid pace, opening more than one EV fast charging station every business day and nearing completion of a second cross-country route across the South Reston, VA (June 24, 2020) […]

How EV Charging Can Clean Up China’s Electricity Grid

Originally published on NRDC’s blog. By Barbara Finamore  & Hyoung Mi Kim Shanghai has just completed an historic EV-Grid Integration pilot program, the first project in China to make use of electric vehicles (EVs) as a flexible […]

What is the Optimum Range for an EV?

There is much discussion about the level of range needed for an electric vehicle to achieve longer journeys. The idea that an electric vehicle requires the same range as a liquid fuelled vehicle is arbitrary, and […]

350 kW ABB Fast Charger Introduced At Hannover Messe

Originally published on CleanTechnica. ABB will be launching a 350 kilowatt (kW) plug-in electric vehicle charger at Hannover Messe. At 350 kW, that means it is essentially the highest power electric vehicle charger in the world. […]

1,300 Kilometer Highway In Iceland Gets 20 ABB DC Fast Chargers

Originally published on CleanTechnica A network of 20 of ABB’s high-speed 50kW DC fast chargers for electric vehicles has been installed across Iceland as the island nation looks to electric vehicles to cut petrol imports and […]

Electric Car Charging Just Got Faster Thanks To ABB’s Terra Charging Stations

The race between electric vehicles, EV charging stations, and batteries is a never-ending game of observation and speculation — one falls behind, falls behind more as the others speed up, then catches up again. Investors and […]

Internal Combustion Blues Vs EV Bliss

30 Year Wait I had been interested in the idea of having an electric vehicle, (EV), for about 30 years, but before the existence of relatively lightweight lithium-ion batteries, when heavy lead-acid batteries were all that […]

Road Trial to Test How EV Range is Affected by High Acceleration.

Introduction I was recently involved in a discussion below the line about the effect of levels of acceleration an electric vehicle range. This was below one of the articles in CleanTechnica. I was arguing that heavy […]

Planet Earth, The Science of Global Warming, and the Causes and Prevention of Climate Change – Part II

Introduction In Part I of this article, I introduced the problem of Climate change, and the history of the science behind it. I then went on to discuss green house gases, noting that greenhouse-gas emissions are […]

The Secret EV Sales Tool!

I’ve been an advocate for EVs since restoring a 1994 USElecticar Chevy S-10 in 2009. I’ll admit my time horizon for wide adoption of EVs at that time was decades out. Little did I realize that […]

Ecotricity Launch Their “Fully Charged” Bundle — A New Deal For UK EV Charging

Hot off the Press I have just received a press release from Ecotricity, outlining a new deal for EV drivers, starting in January 2018. The deal includes cheaper charging on their public, EV fast-charging network, a […]