Bratislava is the first city in Eastern Europe to have an EV charging station that is fed both by the grid as well as a battery. The GridBooster combines two fast-charge stops with CCS and ChaDeMo.
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The British charging infrastructure provider is targeting a flotation in June, “Sky News” has learnt. With this step, the company seeks to raise 50m pounds and to augment its total value to 170m pounds.
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The Chinese city of Jinan started testing a 2 km-long stretch that is equipped with 5,874 square meters of solar panels. In future, electric vehicles driving on it, shall be able to charge inductively.
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Chinese start-up XCharge seeks to challenge existing players of the German and French fast-charging market, the “Handelsblatt” has learnt. Created in 2015, the company provides so far EV charging stations in Shenzhen, China.
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The first four fast-chargers of the EU project Ultra-E are now in operation in Kleinostheim, Germany, close to the highway A3 (exit “Aschaffenburg West”). The finalisation comes just one month after Smatrics and Allego announced the installation of these stations.
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Webasto is going to debut with its EV charging stations in the North American market: In January, the company will put its product portfolio on display at the CES – after having shown it at this year’s IAA in Frankfurt for the first time.
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The future of charging is becoming a reality at Danish Aabenraa, where the first charging facility of the high-power charging network IONITY is being installed at present. We paid the promising site next to a gas station a visit.
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Volkswagen’s diesel-gate unit Electrify America plans to install 2,800 EV charging stations in 17 of the largest U.S. cities by June 2019.
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Infrastructure provider Hubject continues its expansion in the States and has chosen Paul Glenney to lead it’s U.S. business. Glenney has 15 years experiences in the cleantech world.
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A 20 unit Supercharger station has opened in Austrian Bregenz at the HQ of local utility Illwerke VKW. The firm says it is the largest Tesla charge park in Central Europe and wants to add its own infrastructure.
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In-road charging start-up ElectRoad has found a new investor in bus maker Dan Bus from Tel Aviv that wants to invest 2.2 million dollars. The Israeli company that had recently presented its dynamic inductive charging technology.
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A serial number is all a fraudster needs to hack a stranger’s charge card and to rejoice his own EV for free, warns a researcher from Fraunhofer ITWM. What charge cards lack is a signature that can be clearly identified.
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Austria’s ruling coalition of the conservative ÖVP and right-wing FPÖ presented its programme until 2022. The parties pledge to stay on course to abolish nuclear energy and coal and also commit to e-mobility.
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Air Liquide and airport operator Groupe ADP opened the first hydrogen station in an airport zone in France at the Paris-Orly Airport. Another H2 station will follow at Charles de Gaulle Airport and near Versailles in 2018.
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Dutch infrastructure provider EVBox has entered into a distribution agreement with German Memodo. The latter provides a large network of installation experts.
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It took an Australian company to finish a fast-charging corridor that now enables EV drivers to travel from France through Belgium and the Netherlands.
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Lidl rival Kaufland plans to install 100 fast-charging stations at its outlets in Germany. The first 40 EV pit-stops that all run on green energy shall be set up by mid-2018.
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Tritium is from Australia but its Veefil EV charging solutions are expanding their territory fast. At the electrive.com studio powered by P3 at the EVS30 in Stuttgart, Paul Sernia reveals that they are thinking 500kW already.
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British energy company Good Energy and Dutch charging infrastructure specialist NewMotion are working on a common project to make EV owning customers of Good Energy a special offer based on 100% renewable energy.
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The Swiss holding LION E-Mobility has invested in the Munich-based start-up ParkHere, displaying some perspective and maintaining investment E-Mobility capacities.
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The major Benelux (BElgium, NEtherlands and LUXemburg) charging-station operators Open Chargepoint (Belgium), eViolin (Netherlands) and Chargy (Luxemburg) have announced plans to cooperate and integrate their charging systems.
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The French city of Lyon is planning to expand its’ E-Mobility capacities in the very near future: through a number of competing projects run by various private operators, Lyon is planning to expand their network of public charging stations by 2020 to a total of 900 stations.
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The Austrian energy and petrol station group has completed its transaction to join Smatrics with an interest of 40 percent, as planned. Also authorities approved the acquisition.
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The town of Offenbach is now home to a showcase of vehicle-to-grid charging that Honda set up through its European R&D unit. EVTEC and The Mobility House are partners and help optimise energy management to maximise the use of solar power.
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Charging an electric bus in seconds has become a reality in Geneva, where the first two of twelve articulated coaches have taken up service. They charge at ABB’s ultra high speed overhead chargers.
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Kristof Vereenooghe is the CEO of EVBox, a company that runs 50,000 charge points in 30 countries. He says, for its globalisation strategy, EVBox draws from its learnings in its home country the Netherlands.
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Within a three-year research project called FastCharge, BMW (consortium leader), Porsche, Allego, Phoenix Contact and Siemens seek to explore “technical and physical limits of all components and systems involved in charging, both in the vehicle and the infrastructure.”
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The Dutch fast-charging provider condemns Shell’s strategy to sell electric power for EVs at service stations where Fastned has already installed charging stations respectively has already concessions for. That’s why the company wants to bring the responsible authority Rijkswaterstaat to court.
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Swedish EV start-up Uniti and energy provider E.On closed an interesting deal: Swedish clients, who buy one of Uniti’s EVs, are getting five years of solar power to charge their vehicles at home. The bill will be paid by Uniti.
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The European Commission suggests to invest 1bn euros out of the CEF (Connecting Europe Facility) fund to support a total of 39 infrastructure projects. Among them: The installation of a pan-European network with 340 charging stations. This network shall spread out across 13 European countries.
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