BMW of North America today announced an agreement with Electrify America to provide first-time owners of the incoming BMW i5 with two years of complimentary 30-minute charging sessions. This agreement expands on the included charging offered for other electric BMW cars.
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Electrify Commercial has announced its partnership with Rocky Mountain Power, a division of PacificCorp, to deploy 20 EV charging hubs in Utah. They will install over 80 charging stations across 15 locations in the Salt Lake City area, along with five hubs in surrounding regions.
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The US government is launching two new federal initiatives aligned with President Biden’s goal of establishing a national network of 500,000 public EV charging ports. This time around, it is all about reliability.
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Volkswagen’s charging subsidiary Electrify America has agreed upon a deal with Hyundai to provide first-time owners of the Ioniq 6 EV with two years of complimentary charging sessions at Electrify America’s network of DC fast chargers.
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Electrify America has opened its first DC fast-charger on the Hawaiian island of Oahu. The station has four charging points and can deliver up to 150 kW.
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Elke Temme, who leads the Charging and Energy business unit at VW, is stepping down for personal reasons. She will be taking a three-month sabbatical, after which she will be available to the Volkswagen Group part-time until the end of the year. Giovanni Palazzo, President and CEO of Electrify America, will be taking over her […]
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The US charging network will charge five cents more starting on 6 March 2023. This concerns all customers, including Pass+ members, no matter if they charge per minute or per kilowatt hour.
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TravelCenters of America is partnering with Electrify America to install approximately 1,000 fast charging stations at 200 locations along major US highways within five years. The company operates rest stops, restaurants and shops in the US under various brand names.
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Volkswagen of America has started a new update programme for ID.4 software, which is to bring performance improvements and new features. The updates will improve charging and system performance on model year 21, and some model year 22 vehicles.
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In the USA, Electrify America has unveiled its first application of a megawatt-level battery energy storage system (BESS) for electric vehicle charging stations.
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Transport company 4 Gen Logistics has ordered 41 VNR electric trucks from Volvo Trucks North America for use in California. The trucks will transport freight between the Port of Long Beach and Southern California’s Inland Empire, a national logistics and warehousing hub.
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Electrify America and Electrify Canada, Volkswagen’s charging infrastructure subsidiaries in North America, are introducing a new labelling system on their fast-charging stations to help customers distinguish between them.
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Volkswagen’s US subsidiary Electrify America will install more than 200 high-power charging stations at Ikea locations in the US. The fast chargers, with outputs ranging from 150 kW to 350 kW, will be set up at more than 25 Ikea shops in 18 US states and will be available for public use.
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The CCS initiative CharIN has presented the official logo of Plug&Charge to identify the charging points equipped offering this function at a glance. However, charging point operators (CPO) and car manufacturers can freely display the logo or not.
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Siemens joins Electrify America to expand the company’s ultra-rapid charging advance in North America. They have jointly invested 450 million dollars in VW’s subsidiary. Electrify America plans to use the money – Siemens is the first external investor – to advance said expansion but also expects technology advances.
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US grocery retailer Kroger says it was increasing EV charger deployment across its stores in America as it tested and phased in installations from Blink, Electrify America, EVgo, Tesla and Volta. The plan is to bring hundreds more charging stations to stores in select markets across the United States.
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Macerich, an owner, operator and developer of major regional town centers in the US, is adding public ultra-fast electric vehicle charging stations at 12 properties in six states through its ongoing collaboration with Electrify America.
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Bank of America and Electrify America announced plans to more than double the number of financial centers equipped with EV charging stations by the end of 2023 through their collaboration.
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Genesis announced the start of sales of its first electric vehicle GV60 in the United States. The GV60 will be offered in two packages in the USA, with the GV60 Advanced AWD starting at an MSRP of $58,890 and the GV60 Performance AWD at $67,890.
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Volvo Trucks North America has received an order from NFI Industries for 60 heavy-duty electric trucks. NFI bought the latest generation of the VNR Electric and will deploy the new zero-emission vehicles in Ontario, California, starting this year.
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Electrify America has provided an update on EV charging in the US that underscores the rapid expansion of the segment. The Volkswagen subsidiary recorded 1.45 million EV charging sessions in 2021, over five times more than in the previous year with over 268,000 EV charges.
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VinFast has revealed US prices for its VF 8 and VF 9 electric SUVs with battery subscription. At the same time, VinFast and Electrify America have a deal for VinFast customers.
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In the USA, BMW is offering iX and i4 drivers two years of free fast charging at Electrify America’s more than 3,000 public charging stations. This covers up to 30 minutes of free fast charging per charging session.
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Volkswagen’s US subsidiary Electrify America has now equipped more than 140 fast-charging sites with stationary energy storage systems, over 90 of them in California. These batteries have a capacity of over 30 megawatts.
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Volkswagen subsidiary Electrify America has opened one of its largest fast-charging parks to date. The charging station is located in Santa Clara, California, and hosts 14 HPC piles with outputs of between 150 and 350 kW under solar canopies.
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In the USA, Volkswagen subsidiary Electrify America and NFI Industries are planning the largest charging infrastructure project in the country to support heavy-duty electric trucks. A total of 34 HPC chargers for electric trucks are to be installed by the end of 2023.
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This week, Maryland Governor Larry Hogan announced that the state awarded $3.7 million from Maryland’s settlement with Volkswagen for diesel-gate to install EV charging stations. The money is going to 37 sites for public and workplace charging.
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Volkswagen subsidiary Electrify America appears to be dropping the CHAdeMO charging standard at its North American facilities. The decision was found buried in the company’s investment plan that will enter its third phase in 2022 but will exclude California.
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Volvo Cars has opened the order books online for the C40 Recharge at an MSRP of $58,750 in the United States before tax credits. Vehicle production will begin in Ghent, Belgium, this autumn, with the first US deliveries being set for Q4 2021.
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Volkswagen has presented its strategy for 2030 called ‘New Auto’. At the core of this strategy is the shift to electromobility and the gradual phasing out of the combustion engine – but it goes far beyond electrifying the hardware that has been dominant for so long
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