Electrify America
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An ad campaign from Electrify America attempts to demonstrate progress in electric cars—and how normal EVs have become.
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EVgo and Electrify America team up to make chargers more accessible
EVgo and Electrify America have formed a roaming partnership that will allow members of one service to charge at the other's stations.
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Would automatic robotic chargers be helpful? Take our Twitter poll
We want to know if our readers could be helped by robotic electric-car chargers.
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Project examines how to automate charging for self-driving fleets
Stable Auto and Electrify America are partnering on a pilot project in San Francisco that will study how to automate DC fast charging.
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Cooling issue slowing some Electrify America fast chargers over holiday week (Updated)
Electrify America has temporarily reduced the power of some of its fastest DC chargers due to an issue with the Efacec hardware.
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ChargePoint and Electrify America simplify charging access with roaming agreement
Two major charging networks are connecting to allow interoperability between their members at more than 30,000 charge points, without additional fees.
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In the rollout of the 2019 E-tron quattro SUV, Audi is making the claim that rated range might not be the most important thing on a road trip. The E-tron is rated at just 204 miles of estimated range, so the German automaker has some steep ground to gain versus Tesla. But it's made a case that consistency of real-world range and fast charging rates through an entire charge can make up for that. On a recent drive from California's wine country up past 7,000 feet to Lake Tahoe in the E-tron quattro, it indeed showed pretty consistent range estimates and charged quickly on one of Electrify...
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Electrify America releases new pricing plans and mobile app
A new debate is raging in the electric-car and charging communities: Whether electric-car drivers should pay for charging like gas, by the kilowatt-hour; or like parking, by the minute. Electrify America, which has been firmly in the latter camp, released new pricing plans last week that takes a...
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Green New Deal, Electrify America expansion, Audi e-tron delay: Today's Car News
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ed Markey introduced the outline of a Green New Deal in Congress. Electrify America laid out plans for its second-round roll-out starting later this year. German reports show the launch of the Audi e-tron could be delayed overseas. And the USPS is rolling out electric...
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Electrify America adds city charging, fills in highways in second cycle
Over the next 2-1/2 years, Electrify America plans to expand its network of DC fast chargers for electric cars to include more cities, as well as to finish more of its build-out along highways across the U.S. Electrify America is a division of VW founded to use money from Volkswagen's diesel...
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Tesla battery packs coming to Electrify America chargers
Electrify America has been billed as a charging network to compete with Tesla's Superchargers. Now it turns out, they may be partners as well. In an announcement on Monday, Electrify America said it would install Tesla stationary battery packs at 100 of its locations to balance power demand and...
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Tesla profits, GM doubles down on EVs, Mustang and 911 hybrids: The Week in Reverse
Which company showed a new hybrid system this week? What new retro-themed electric car does Volkswagen plan to build? This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending Feb. 1, 2019. The news this week centered around Tesla, as it often...
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UPDATE: As of Tuesday morning Electrify America said that it is "restoring full capacity to its entire network" after the potentially affected charging cables cleared extensive testing, and it called the original incident spurring the shutdown "an isolated event" at a private facility with a prototype cable. Thus, we updated the story title to reflect that they "were down" rather than "are down." Electric car owners who are planning to use the DC fast chargers that are part of the Electrify America network may want to allow a little extra time in their plans over the coming days and weeks...
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Road-trip mission: 2020 Porsche Taycan charging is free and very fast
As Porsche is finding out with its Taycan electric car, it’s not always easy being the first—or the fastest. The 2020 Porsche Taycan will be the first production model built on an entirely new 800-volt architecture that helps allow much faster road-trip charging than any other electric...
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VW TDI claims, more Tesla details, "Jetstones" promote electric cars: Today's Car News
The VW TDI settlement nears completion. Elon Musk reveals more details about his privatization plan for Tesla. And Electrify America rolls out the "Jetstones" to promote electric cars. All this and more on Green Car Reports. Owners of 2.0-liter VW TDI models have until Sept. 1 to file for...
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VW electric charger network spreads to Canada
Mirroring its Electrify America network of public fast chargers for electric cars in the U.S., Volkswagen announced Thursday that it will set up a similar network in Canada—called Electrify Canada, logically enough. Electrify Canada plans to set up 32 DC fast-charging stations in major...
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Electrify America maps out charging network to rival Tesla Superchargers
Mark 2018 as the year that practical, widespread electric-car charging really started coming to America. We've had a lot of news about new charging networks coming to the U.S., and it doesn't look like it will be slowing down any time soon. Following the announcement last week that 100 Walmart...
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Electrify America contracts with Greenlots for electric-car charging sites, installations
The $2 billion electric-vehicle infrastructure program funded by Volkswagen as part of its diesel-emission scandal settlement has picked an installer to roll out some of the first phase of its electric-car charging network. Electrify America said on Monday it would contract with the Greenlots...
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This Thursday, the California Air Resources Board will meet to consider what action it will take on an important plan that could bring many more electric-car charging sites to the state. That document is the first 30-month investment plan submitted by Volkswagen for its "Electrify America" program. Each of four stages in the 10-year plan is evaluated separately by the EPA (for the 49 states) and by California, which sets its own, unique vehicle-emission rules. DON'T MISS: VW Electrify America plan for electric-car charging across U.S. released (Apr 2017) The Electrify America plan, which is...
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VW Electrify America plan for electric-car charging across U.S. released
Two billion dollars is a lot of money. When VW Group of America agreed to fund a $2 billion project to spread zero-emission vehicle infrastructure across the U.S. as part of its settlements in the Volkswagen diesel emission scandal, that immediately changed the playing field for electric-car fast...
John Voelcker