eVgo charging network
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ChargePoint and NRG EVgo are getting additional private funding.
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Largest (Non-Tesla) Fast-Charging Site In U.S. At CA Supermarket
EVgo opens a fast-charging site that can charge cars on multiple standards simultaneously.
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Some BMW i3 Electric-Car Owners Get Expanded Free Fast Charging
As DC fast-charging networks emerge as a crucial battleground for long-range electric cars, BMW will expand its ChargeNow program for owners of its i3 electric hatchback. Announced last week at the Los Angeles Auto Show, the expanded program will give those drivers access to 500 additional DC...
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Free Electric-Car Charging For Ford C-Max Energi Owners (For 3 Years)
Ford is offering free charging to California and Maryland customers who buy or lease a C-Max Energi plug-in hybrid.
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Electric-Car Drivers Will Pay For DC Fast-Charging 12-To-1 Over Level 2
NRG eVgo claims Bay Area customers overwhelmingly prefer DC fast charging.
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Energy Firm NRG's Business Reset: Will It Affect Electric-Car Charging Network?
NRG Energy is splitting its electric-car charging and solar divisions into a separate company.
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NRG eVgo plans to focus more on facilitating intercity electric-car driving.
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Price Of Electric-Car DC Fast Charging Varies: Sacramento A Test Case
While fast charging for electric cars is still nonexistent--or just starting to roll out--across much of the country, California leads the way. And the state capital of Sacramento now has such stations installed both by private vendors and the local public utility, Sacramento Metropolitan Utility...
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Electric-Car Charging Station Operator 350Green Charged With Fraud
Former heads of the company contracted of operating Chicago's electric-car charging network are charged with fraud.
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NRG Now Has 120 Quick-Charging Stations Open In California
The NRG eVgo electric-car charging network now includes more than 120 operating stations in California.
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Electric-Car Fast-Charging Networks: Competition Heats Up
It's always interesting to reporters when a news story produces unsolicited counterpoints from affected parties. Yesterday's announcement of the agreement among BMW, Volkswagen, and ChargePoint to install roughly 100 electric-car DC fast-charging stations by the end of the year spawned two separate...
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BMW i3 Electric Car Owners To Get Free DC Fast Charging Through 2015
California BMW i3 owners will get free DC fast charging on the NRG eVgo network through 2015.
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Solar power for your home has been around a long time, but for many homeowners, it's required subsidies, special financing arrangements, and still delivered long payback periods. That's changing fast, according to the CEO of a major Texas electric utility. David Crane, who runs NRG Energy, says that in fully half the states of the union, electricity from residential solar panels will be cost-competitive with that delivered by local electric utilities by next year. DON'T MISS: Will Solar Panels Destroy Electric Utilities' Business Model? Yes, They Say Crane was quoted two weeks ago in a blog...
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EZ-Charge Program Not So Easy As ChargePoint Exits Nissan Plan
The design for EZ-Charge, an access card that would let new Nissan Leaf electric-car drivers use multiple charging networks, was unveiled yesterday at the EDTA convention. Unfortunately, one of the four partners pulled out of the program--seemingly just an hour or so before the lunch event at which...
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Nissan EZ Charge Card To Let Leafs Recharge On Four Networks
One of the minor hassles of owning an electric car is the need to have multiple accounts, passes, and fobs to access multiple different public charging networks. Now Nissan is working to make public charging simpler, introducing a program called EZ Charge that lets Nissan Leaf electric-car drivers...
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Why Oil State Texas Turns Out To Be Friendly To Electric Cars
Charging stations run by utility companies make Texas a popular spot for electric cars.
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Is There Any Business Model For Public Electric-Car Charging? Plug-In 2013 Report
Suppose there's no way for businesses to make money on public electric-car charging stations--even with DC quick-charging? Then what? That was one sobering question that came up during the Plug-In 2013 conference, held in San Diego last Monday through Thursday. Almost three years after the first...
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EVgo Network Opens Electric-Car Quick-Charging Station In CA
eVgo is bringing its electric car charging stations, called Freedom Stations, to California to capitalize on the Golden State's enthusiasm for plug-in cars.
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Nissan announced today that it would provide 40 quick-charging stations to NRG, which will use them to expand its eVgo electric-car charging network into the Washington, D.C., region. Working with its dealers, local authorities, and charging-station partners. Nissan hopes to triple the number of quick-charging stations available in the U.S. There are now about 160 quick-charge stations, mostly on the West Coast and in Texas; Nissan hopes to add another 500 new stations over the next 18 months. The company envisions "a quick-charging network that links communities and neighborhoods where...