Electrify America has announced a deal with Love’s Travel Stops, an American chain of service stations, to install ultra-fast charging stations at seven locations in six states across the US.

The government of Canada announced that 28 of the country’s most popular natural parks, called Parks Canada, now offer Tesla donated EV chargers. Tesla made both Level-2 and its chargers available in equal measure.

The British fast-charging network Drive Energi and Greene King, that operates 2,700 pubs, restaurants and hotels across the UK, have made a deal. The partnership will see Drive Energi install one of the largest rapid-charging networks at retail locations in the country’s north-west.

Speaking at the ACT virtual conference, Tritium CEO Jane Hunter presented the RT 175-S fast charger with 175 kW power capability. Tritium’s RT 175-S will be the first charger on the US market capable of Plug and Charge vehicle-to-charger communication. 

A large vehicle-to-grid project with electric buses has now been launched at a bus depot in North London. The Bus2Grid project is testing V2G systems with an initial 28 electric double-decker buses with which more than 1 MW of energy can be fed back into the grid.

Enel X has installed and commissioned a network of 34 charging points for electric cars in Bucharest and the surrounding area. Although these are mainly AC chargers with 22 kW there are also a number of DC chargers with up to 50 kW charging capacity in the network.

Tesla is apparently working on a payment system for its Destination Charger – wallboxes found at many hotels and restaurants. The core of the project is the third hardware generation of the Tesla Wall Connector.

The UK charging provider Connected Kerb has been tasked with the installation of charging infrastructure to support over 130 charging points, with 20 to be deployed immediately. The installations are part of an agreement to install chargers at a new 3,000-home development near Swindon.

The largest electric vehicle charging facility built in Scotland so far was officially opened this week at Falkirk Stadium. Ten 50kW rapid charging stations are accompanied by sixteen 22kW fast charging bays, providing capacity for 26 electric vehicles.

The English city of Birmingham has announced the establishment of 394 quick charge points to support the electrification of the taxi fleet. The fast chargers, which are to be installed in Birmingham starting this autumn over the next two years, will not only be accessible to taxis, but also to the public and local businesses.

Users of Enel X’s App JuicePass now have access to a network of over 50,000 public charging points across Europe, most of which are made accessible via the Hubject platform. Further roaming agreements make this possible.

Nissan and E.On have installed and successfully deployed 20 Vehicle-to-Grid chargers at Nissan’s European Technical Center in Cranfield, England. Now the two partners are looking for other companies that want to use V2G chargers.

The charging network provider ChargePoint concluded a new round of equity financing. The company has raised $127 million (€107 million), mostly from existing investors.

The Japanese company e-Mobility Power (eMP) has ordered 250 units of the recently introduced Terra 184 rapid-charging station. With these, eMP primarily intends to replace existing slower charging columns.

General Motors is cooperating with EVgo to expand the US fast-charging network by 2,700 additional stations over the next five years. The stations will have capacities from 100 kW and up to 350 kW, the first of which will be available to customers by early 2021.

In November 2018, the Spanish energy supplier Endesa announced the establishment of over 8,500 public charging points for electric vehicles in Spain by 2023. Endesa will now receive 35 million euros from the European Investment Bank to implement the plan.

The e-commerce giant Amazon has announced its largest deployment of electric mobility in Germany to date. The distribution centre in Essen has been equipped with 340 charging stations and operates more than 150 electric delivery vehicles every day.

Siemens Smart Infrastructure has just received a new order from Italy. The company is contracted to supply the charging infrastructure for ten Rampini E80 electric buses for the municipal transport operator AMT Genova (AMT) in Genoa.

A group of eleven transmission system operators from nine EU countries presented a concept for a transnational hydrogen transport infrastructure. A network is planned which will be gradually expanded from the mid-2020s to 2040 to form a transport system with a length of 23,000 kilometres.

Ford has announced the installation of 750 charging points at its Cologne factory premises in Niehl and Merkenich, Germany. Construction has already begun and should be completed by the beginning of 2022 at the latest.

In the UK, Swarco eVolt is installing 14 rapid chargers to sites in Kent for registered taxis and private hire vehicles, The chargers should support the local authority’s clean strategy and further encourage the uptake of electric vehicles.

In this interview, Giovanni Bertolino, who is responsible for e-mobility at Enel X North America, describes the company’s overseas strategy that differs from the European approach in several ways.

The mineral oil company Aral has announced that it intends to set up more than 100 fast-charging points at its German filling stations within the next twelve months. The expansion is to continue as the oil giant’s long-term planning envisages “several hundred locations”.

The Swiss technology group ABB has begun construction of a new production facility for charging infrastructure in the Italian municipality of San Giovanni Valdarno in Tuscany. The 16,000-square-meter facility is expected to go into operation at the end of 2021.

Audi has launched a joint research project with the Hager Group on bi-directional home charging. The test vehicle, an e-tron Sportback, is to be equipped with “near-series charging technology”.

Heliox has received two orders for electric bus charging systems in Germany. The Dutch company has been tasked with the supply of charging infrastructure for two electric bus projects in Darmstadt and Bonn.

Volkswagen Group of America (VWGoA) opened a 50-space charging station at its Arizona Proving Grounds to help the company test battery and charging performance in scorching weather. VWGoA says it is “one of the most extensive EV charging stations”.

Spanish energy supplier Iberdrola has opened another fast-charging site on one of the main corridors of the Iberian Peninsula. The new site is part of the company’s plan to install 150,000 charge points in Southern Europe.

Living with an EV in the UK is getting easier since Volkswagen and PodPoint teamed up with the Tesco chain over a year ago. The partners announced they have now installed charge points at 200 Tesco superstores, all free to use.

As Volkswagen readies the ID.3 electric car to hit the road in eventually large numbers, the company also launches the corresponding charging service. We Charge opens this August offering clients three tariffs, including exclusive Ionity conditions, as the Group now announces.