Hubject is going to cooperate with IoTecha, a company specialising in the provision of software and hardware to support the charging infrastructure for e-vehicles. Their main focus will be on the use of Plug&Charge.
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The BP subsidiary BP Chargemaster has announced its intention to equip all 50 kW rapid and 150 kW ultra-fast chargers on the Polar network with contactless card payment. All existing 50 kW chargers will also be retrofitted.
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Volkswagen has now officially launched the joint venture for charging infrastructure announced in May in China together with their Chinese partners JAC and FAW, as well as Star Charge. The joint venture is called CAMS New Energy Technology.
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The Government of Canada is awarding $4.6-million to Suncor’s Petro-Canada subsidiary for building 92 electric vehicle fast-chargers. Suncor that specialises in synthetic crude from oil sands thus becomes part of Canada’s effort to install a coast-to-coast charging network.
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BP Chargemaster has been tasked with installing rapid charging points at 200 of Mitchells & Butlers pubs to receive rapid chargers across the UK. 50 installations of the 50 kW charging stations are expected by October.
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The UK rapid charging network Engenie has announced plans to double the number of their EV chargers in the UK by 2024. More than 2,000 rapid charging points will be funded by a £35 million investment from the Cube Infrastructure Fund II.
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The CCS initiative CharIN and its members in the High Power Commercial Vehicle Charging Task Force (HPCVC) are now also working on high power charging for electric commercial vehicles with a charging capacity of one to three megawatts and, with the help of Tesla.
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Nissan has launched Latin America’s first bi-directional charging system in Chile in cooperation with Enel X and the Energy Sustainability Agency. In addition to the Nissan Leaf, a 3 kW solar panel will also be used for the Vehicle-to-Grid project.
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After the German company teamed up with the US National Park Foundation in 2017 to set up 100 EV charging stations at US nature reserves, they finally completed the project.
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The UK will invest the money with British engineering over a series of 12 projects to improve electric chargepoint infrastructure, as well as “revolutionising the experience” for EV drivers.
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Evie Networks is building a fast charging network for electric cars on motorways throughout Australia and is cooperating with California-based EV Connect. Compared to the size of the country, however, the number of planned HPC stations seems somewhat small.
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Shell has installed a 150 kW ultra-rapid EV charger at a petrol station in Battersea, south London. The charger is now available for public use alongside the already existing 50 kW rapid chargers from Allego.
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The Australian EV charging network operator Chargefox is partnering with Yurika to manage the 17 fast charging parks that are the Queensland Electric Super Highway. They have also opened the “most powerful EV charging station in the southern hemisphere”.
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The English charging infrastructure manufacturer Rolec EV has delivered more than 1,000 charging points for electric vehicles to Kia in the UK. The devices will be installed at dealerships and will also be sold to customers.
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Basel’s city government has announced intentions to add another 200 additional charging stations to be installed in the canton by 2026. To this end, a new law is to put the charging facilities on a legal footing.
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The charging station manufacturer EVBox and the energy management specialist Smappee have agreed on a multi-year partnership to further develop Smart Charging and introduce intelligent charging products globally.
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In Singapore, the Swiss provider of electric vehicle infrastructure has been awarded contracts to provide charging infrastructure for 40 single-deck electric buses by early 2020. The contracts were awarded by the Singapore Land Transport Authority (LTA).
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The Italian energy supplier Enel has signed agreements with both Ionity and Smatrics via its subsidiary Enel X: from now on, Enel X customers can also charge at the German and Austrian suppliers’ charging stations.
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Ultra-fast EV charging provider Ionity has continued its British expansion by penning a deal with Extra MSA Group, which owns and operates parts of the UK’s motorway network.
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The first images have been released of the new standard charging plug jointly developed by the China Electricity Council (CEC) and the CHAdeMO Association. The new charging standard ChaoJi should enable outputs of up to 900 kW.
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In the UK, Stagecoach is now using Tesla Powerpacks to reduce the cost of charging a large fleet of electric buses. Energy company Zenobe has installed 78 stationery batteries and several charging stations at Stagecoach’s bus depot in Guildford, a town in southern England.
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The Renault, Nissan and Mitsubishi alliance is investing in the energy service provider The Mobility House through its venture capital subsidiary Alliance Ventures. As of yet, the scope of the investment is unknown.
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British company Gridserve today announced that it has submitted a planning application to build an ‘Electric Forecourt’ in English town of Braintree – the first of over 100 multi-point charging sites planned across the UK.
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Through its Helvetia Venture Fund, the Swiss insurance company Helvetia is now investing in Chargery, the Berlin mobile charging service for electric cars. These funds should enable Chargery to expand its services into other cities.
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The Spanish manufacturer Wallbox Chargers has completed a 15 million euro financing round led by energy supplier Iberdrola. The company from Barcelona aims to strengthen its position in Europe and expand worldwide.
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Starting on the first of July, all publicly funded chargepoints in the UK will have to incorporate smart technologies to keep costs down for consumers, as well as becoming greener, to eventually reach zero net emissions.
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The Portuguese charging station manufacturer Efacec has been selected by Allego to supply and install 90 high power chargers in Germany and the Netherlands over the next two years.
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Rolec EV has been contracted by DPD UK to provide a smart EV charging network at 60 of its sites in Great Britain. DPD plans to grow their EV fleet to over 550 vehicles by 2021, so they will have to install over 600 charge points to accommodate this.
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Barnet Council has installed the first 40 lamp column charging points for electric cars. The London borough plans to launch a further 40 in autumn as part of the Air Quality Action Plan and Long Term Transport Strategy.
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Jedlix is one of those hidden champions. They work with partners such as Tesla, BMW and Renault but are almost invisible to users but provide the backdrop for services such as smart charging apps. So we wanted to learn more and spoke with the firm’s marketing director Taco van Berkel.
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