Belgium has welcomed a new player in the EV infrastructure sector as startup Sparki emerges with ambitious plans to establish the country’s largest High-Power Charging (HPC) network. Sparki aims to achieve this feat in less than three years, supported by the Belgian government.
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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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Ikea has announced plans to install hundreds of new electric vehicle charge points at its stores in Spain and Belgium. In Spain, the furniture retailer has commissioned Acciona Energia, an energy company, with the installation. In Belgium, Allego scored the job.
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Pionix GmbH, a German open-source company for EV charging, has announced completing an oversubscribed Seed financing round, raising over €5 million. Pionix plans to use the capital to establish its open-source stack, EVerest, as a global development standard.
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Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) and BMW of North America have joined forces to explore the potential of vehicle-to-everything technology. The collaboration is underway and builds on earlier smart charging schemes launched by the companies.
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US-based battery swap startup Ample has revealed its latest station design, marking the second generation of its technology. The new design enables Ample to halve the times it takes to swap a battery, and the company says, the new stations boast faster deployment times.
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Driveco, a French electric vehicle charging company, has announced a €250 million fundraising round from APG, one of the world’s largest institutional investors. The investment represents the most significant funding round in France’s charging infrastructure sector.
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Hyundai Motor India Ltd (HMIL) has partnered with Shell to install fast chargers across 36 of its dealerships in India. If feasible, Shell India may install 120 kW fast chargers instead of the 60 kW stations currently defined in the deal.
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Dutch charging infrastructure specialist Heliox will launch two new chargers in North America. These will be available through Cummins’ North America distribution network.
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Charge+ has unveiled its plan to establish a 5,000-km EV charging highway across five Southeast Asian countries, encompassing Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam. The project aims to install 45 fast-charging hubs.
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Siemens is acquiring the EV division of Mumbai-based Mass-Tech Controls. The company is hoping to better service the growing EV market there.
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Charging infrastructure specialist Mer and Chinese EV manufacturer Nio have joined forces to develop more than 15 sites in Germany and Austria by 2025 that feature Mer’s charging stations and Nio’s battery swap stations.
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In Washington State, USA, the electric vehicle charging services provider EVCS has begun the construction and upgrade of its fast charging network across the state. By the end of this year, 52 DC fast chargers will be added across 21 locations.
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LNG Electric wants to equip more than 13,000 hotels in the US with both AC and DC charging infrastructure. To that end, the company has now partnered with the design firm MD7.
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The USA and Canada are creating a cross-border charging corridor for electric vehicles. It will run for around 1,400 kilometres between Kalamazoo, Michigan and Quebec City in Canada.
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Transport for London (TfL) has hired Zest to install 39 new HPC bays across 24 locations in south and southwest London by the end of 2024, including outer London boroughs such as Sutton and Bromley.
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Ionity has inaugurated its largest charging park to date in Affi on Lake Garda, Italy. The new Ionity site has 18 HPC columns, each with up to 350 kW of power, supplied by a photovoltaic system.
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Scania has launched Scania Charging Access, a new service designed to simplify public charging for mixed fleets of trucks and buses. The new tool promises set, predictable costs and no hidden fees via one invoicing system.
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BP Pulse has stopped selling home charging units directly to consumers today and only offers them to fleet customers, opting for a more simplified business approach. This move is part of the company’s adjustment in its EV infrastructure plans.
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The Chinese charging infrastructure manufacturer XCharge presented its new ultra-fast charging station C7 with a charging capacity of up to 420 kW for the first time in Oslo. A version that complies with calibration regulations should also be available soon.
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Tesla has significantly reduced the rates at its Superchargers in Europe. Depending on the country, observers report price reductions of up to 25 per cent. In Germany, the price range fell from 52 to 59 cents to 39 to 47 cents per kilowatt hour.
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Scania successfully tested a megawatt charging system (MCS) from ABB E-Mobility with a next-generation electric truck. The trial, which marks the first use of this technology in this context, is considered a critical step towards the future deployment of high-power chargers.
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Ingeteam, an electrical engineering company headquartered in Spain, has revealed plans to expand its production facility in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The investment, totalling over $20m, will bring the company’s output in line with recent infrastructure funding.
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Sweden is set to convert a motorway into a permanent electrified road, allowing electric cars and e-trucks to charge while driving. According to reports from Euronews, the Swedish transport authority Trafikverket has selected the E20 motorway to undergo the conversion.
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Infrared, an infrastructure investment firm, has invested €150 million in Jolt Energy to kickstart the development of its battery-buffered ultra-fast charging network across Europe. The money will allow Jolt Energy to build up to 500 charging stations over the next five years, with 50 of them expected to be operational by the end of this […]
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Panasonic will invest in Ubiden, which provides charging services for electric vehicles. Together, the companies want to expand the number of EV chargers in Japan.
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The Australian charging station manufacturer Tritium has received investments totalling $40 million. Most of the money comes from Tritium’s largest shareholder.
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Italian charging infrastructure provider Be Charge has secured more than €100 million in funding. The money will be used to set up HPC chargers in eight European countries by 2025, including in Italy, Spain, France, Austria, Germany, Portugal, Slovenia, and Greece.
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Technotrans is developing a cooling solution for the battery-supported ChargePost rapid charging station on behalf of ADS-TEC Energy. According to the thermal management specialist from Sassenheim, the order has a total volume in the high single-digit million euro range.
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Food distributor Sysco unveiled its vision for the ‘Riverside Electric Vehicle Hub’. Known to readers from a significant order for electric trucks, the new infrastructure will transform the company’s distribution centre into the “focal point of its electrified fleet”.
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