As it moves toward becoming a fully electric car maker by 2030, Volvo Cars is turning its app into a “one-stop-shop” for drivers of Volvo Recharge vehicles. The new version integrates charging functions and payment options that Volvo has added through recent partnerships.
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Tesla has expanded the opening of Superchargers to Non-Tesla cars in Europe and has become “the largest 150kW+ CPO instantly,” according to Jeroen van Tilburg, Head of Supercharging EMEA.
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Today, Paua, a newcomer to the e-mobility space announced in 2020, published a milestone. The roaming business says it has now signed up companies amounting to access to 10,000 charge points across the UK. Their clients include leading providers such as Osprey, Fastned, Ionity, Connected Kerb, Char.gy, and Mer.
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The Volkswagen Group is launching a charging and energy campaign. The volume brands Volkswagen, Cupra/Seat and ŠKODA are now to offer fixed kilowatt-hour prices throughout the entire charging network. At the same time, the Group is further expanding its European charging network.
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The Dutch fast-charging provider Fastned recorded 70 per cent more charging transactions at its stations last year, breaking the one million charging transactions mark in one year. Fastned continues to be profitable in its operating business.
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Hyundai now relies entirely on renewable energies for its Charge myHyundai service with immediate effect. Using Digital Charging Solutions’ (DCS) green charging option, the company will ensure all charging activity is “counteracted” by 100 per cent wind energy.
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Hubject has launched the Open Plug&Charge Protocol (OPCP) to enable free access to Plug&Charge. OPCP is the first independent protocol to standardise the Plug&Charge ecosystem.
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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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UK-based LiFe Network, powered by RAW Charging, has begun working with Plugsurfing to push their expansion across the UK and Europe. The charge point aggregator will provide RAW Charging with its back-end cloud software to grow the network.
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After Tesla opened Superchargers to third parties in the Netherlands three months ago, it looks like the time has come for EV drivers in other European countries as well.
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Here Technologies has entered into a strategic collaboration with Digital Charging Solutions GmbH (DCS). The collaboration between Here and DCS is designed to enable car manufacturers to offer customers a “seamless and holistic user experience for their electric vehicles”.
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Hubject has announced a cooperation with Free To X, a startup of Autostrade per l’Italia Group founded in March 2021. Free To X says it will extend its HPC infrastructure along Italian highways to a large number of electric car drivers within Hubject’s Intercharge network.
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The Electric Circuit, a Canadian EV charging network, and US-based ChargePoint have made a roaming deal. Electric Circuit members will get access to an additional 40,000 charging stations while ChargePoint members will be able to access all 3,300 Electric Circuit charging stations in Canada.
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Hubject and Digital Charging Solutions (DCS) have partnered to offer Plug&Charge to the ISO 15118 standard to their customers in the European market.
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Hubject has introduced invoice management as part of its eRoaming services. The new ‘Invoice Management’ function should simplify – ie. automate – processes for over 1,000 B2B partners. Until now, the manual transfer of charging data has still been necessary in some cases.
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Hubject has announced the launch of the Open Plug&Charge Testing System. This allows market participants to access a neutral testing environment to discover more features of Plug&Charge without any commercial obligation.
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In Japan, the charging infrastructure provider e-Mobility Power (eMP) has migrated and unified its entire network of more than 27,000 chargers onto the Driivz EV charging and smart energy management software platform.
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Ionity is launching a subscription model for its charging stations. This is intended to give electric car drivers the opportunity to use Ionity charging stations without charging cards from other Mobility Service Providers (MSP) or charging services from car manufacturers participating in Ionity at a reduced rate.
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Driivz and Hubject are cooperating to drive the roll-out of Plug&Charge. The impetus for this was provided by Mer Group, which is switching to Driivz’s operating system to manage its charging infrastructure in Europe and is expected to be the first to benefit from this cooperation.
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Hubject and the European platform e-clearing.net, initiated by Smartlab and the foundation ElaadNL, are cooperating with immediate effect to spread the Plug&Charge technology. The aim is to make “seamless charging” available to all Hubject, Smartlab and e-clearing.net partners.
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Renault’s mobility brand Mobilize has unveiled new offerings for Europe, including a battery certificate for greater transparency in the resale of electric vehicles, a charging passport and a smart charging app to reduce domestic electricity costs.
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Charging infrastructure specialist Enel X Romania has joined the Hubject network. Specifically, over 160 charging points from Enel X in Romania will become part of Hubject’s Intercharge roaming platform. Until now, access to Enel X Romania’s charging points was only possible via the JuicePass app.
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Hubject and Plugsurfing announce the renewal of their long-lasting international roaming partnership. Hubject will continue to give Plugsurfing access to their eRoaming platform intercharge, effectively giving Plugsurfing customers access to 150,000 charging stations across Europe.
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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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To promote cross-border electric driving and charging, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg (so-called Benelux countries) have established the joint service IDRO (Benelux ID Registration Organisation). IDRO is supposed to help ensure that national borders are not an obstacle to charging.
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UK Transport Minister Rachel Maclean has announced that the government and charity sector will be coming together to set accessibility standards for charging points in the UK. The aim is to provide the industry with guidance on how to make individual charge points more accessible by summer 2022
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In cooperation with VW’s charging service provider Elli, LogPay’s ‘Charge & Fuel’ Card offering will be expanded and the charging offer will be bundled within the Volkswagen Group.
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Tesla is being sued in a Californian court over charges at its Superchargers. Specifically, Kevin Shenkman filed a lawsuit on behalf of customers who were promised free use of the Superchargers for life when they purchased their car from Tesla.
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Drivers of electric cars from Volvo and Polestar may rejoice. The companies’ partnerships with Plugsurfing is reaping fresh tariffs with a significant price reduction for ultra-rapid charging at Ionity stations.
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Mer, a new entrant to the British EV charging market and owned by Statkraft, announced a roaming partnership with NewMotion, a Shell group company. The agreement opens Mer’s 160 charging points to NewMotion clients and Shell Recharge users in the UK.
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