ChargePoint Network
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California BMW i3 owners will get free DC fast charging on the NRG eVgo network through 2015.
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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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Why Electric-Car Charging At Work Matters: Explaining The 'Duck Curve'
For many electric car owners, charging at work is a nice bonus, but not a necessity. For others, it's the difference between choosing an electric vehicle, and not doing so--the extra charge at work makes all the difference. But there's another reason charging at work is important, and it's all to...
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Easier Electric-Car Charging: BMW ChargeNow, Nissan EZ Charge
Both BMW and Nissan are set to roll out electric-car charging programs for their customers.
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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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Got A Blink Charging Station? ChargePoint Offers Up To $2,200 For You To Switch
Last month, Ecotality became the latest green company to fall foul of the tricky emerging market when it filed for bankruptcy. It leaves customers of its Blink network of charging stations--and indeed, owners of businesses who had them installed--unsure as to what their next step should be. For the...
Antony Ingram -
It's Earth Day today, and if you're intending to roll it out a little, Earth Week all this week. To coincide with a week where we're all encouraged to do just a little more to consider the environment, charging station network ChargePoint is giving away free charging cards for simply filling in a form. It's open to any electric car driver in the U.S. and Canada and you've got until Thursday, April 25 to claim your card. You won't get it in time for Earth Week itself--delivery is expected to take around 6 weeks--but it's a good chance to get hold of an extra card, which normally costs $4.95. A...
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Nest: Where One Electric-Car Charger Grew To Three
While we're nearing 100,000 plug-in electric cars on U.S. roads, they're not evenly distributed--and the largest group of them is in California. This has led to occasional congestion at charging stations, and now it turns out that happens at workplaces too. Venture-funded startup Nest Labs, a media...
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Collaboratev Project: 'Roaming' For Electric-Car Charging Stations
Electric-car charging stations are being added to more and more public parking lots, curbsides, corporate garages, and a host of other locations. But as any electric-car driver can tell you, many of them are operated by specific networks. They often require drivers to have set up an account...
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New ChargePoint Mobile App Shows Every U.S. Charging Station
Android and iPhone users can now find any electric vehicle charging station in the country, thanks to a new app from ChargePoint. The ChargePoint EV app doesn't just let drivers locate ChargePoint's own stations, but those from other providers, too. Compatible with all Android and iOS smartphones...
Antony Ingram -
What Happens To Abandoned Electric-Car Charging Stations?
Finding an electric-car charging station gets easier every day. More than 10,000 public and private electric-car charging stations have now been installed in the U.S., or one for roughly every five plug-in cars on the road today. But not every single one of those stations is going to stay with us...
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Need An Electric Car Charging Station At Work? Here’s One For Free
If you drive an electric or plug-in car and drive to work every day in it, you’ve probably given the topic of workplace charging stations some thought. Convincing your boss to shell out company cash for a charging station might not be that easy, but now charging station provider ChargePoint...
Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield -
Our recent test of a 2012 Mitsubishi 'i' electric minicar was actually the first time we've tested a pure battery electric car in New York City. While the relatively short distances covered in NYC would seem well suited to plug-in cars, there's the big issue of recharging. With most residents not having private garages--either parking on the street or in commercial lots and garages--where can you recharge? We did a little research and concluded that with our Chargepoint card, we could probably piece together enough places to recharge the Mitsubishi. We're lucky to live five minutes from a...
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Free Electric-Car Charges Start To Depart; What's A Fair Fee?
demanding $ 2.00/hour for charging as do the similar charging stations....
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Reliability Of Electric-Car Charging Networks Varies Wildly, Study Says
Remember the early days of mobile phones, when lots of small carriers competed and roaming was just a far-distant dream? Welcome to the wild world of electric-car charging, folks. Right now, more than a dozen networks--some local, some regional, some national--operate Level 2 charging stations for...
John Voelcker