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UK’s Largest Public EV Charging Hub Comes Online In Birmingham 

BP pulse, The EV Network (EVN), and NEC Group, announced the launch of the United Kingdom’s largest public electric vehicle charging hub on the NEC Campus in the West Midlands.  The site, called Gigahub, has 16 ultra-fast chargers (14 dual-head and two…

Tesla Rival Chevy Has Bad News About Its Popular Electric Vehicle 

The Bolt was the second best-selling electric vehicle behind the Tesla  (TSLA) Model S after it launched. It was also named the 2017 Motor Trend Car of the Year, 2017 North American Car of the Year, Automobile magazine 2017 All Star and was…

Stellantis Expects To Add More Gigafactories For Ev Batteries 

Stellantis will build more battery-making plants on top of the six facilities it already plans in Europe and North America. The additional capacity will support growing production of EV vehicles, said Stellantis’ head of global propulsion systems, Micky Bly. “We have committed…

California Shows An Electric-car Uprising Headed For The Us 

If you want to know how quickly electric vehicles might spread across the U.S., just look at California. In the past five years, EVs have gone from 2% of new-car sales in the state to 22%.  The pace of adoption…

Europe’s Auto Giants Trail in Electric Vehicle Transition 

BYD, a leading Chinese electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer, has outpaced European auto giants BMW, Volkswagen, and Mercedes in the global EV market. In the first half of 2023, BYD sold nearly 1.2 million plug-in electric vehicles, double the combined total…

Honda Will Use Tesla’s Ev Charging Standard In North America 

Honda announced today that it’s switching to Tesla’s North American Charging Standard (NACS) for upcoming EVs sold on the continent. Honda models that go on sale in 2025 and later will use NACS instead of the Combined Charging System (CCS). The automaker says it’s developing…

Hilton Adding 20,000 EV Charging Stations To 2,000 North American Hotels 

Hilton and Tesla have entered into a deal to add up to 20,000 Tesla Universal Wall Connectors to 2,000 U.S., Canada, and Mexico properties, with a minimum of 6 per hotel. These charging stations will work with other electric vehicles…

Wawa Reaches 150 Stores Offering Ev Charging 

Convenience store chain Wawa marked two milestones in its electric vehicle journey by announcing Aug. 31 that it had reached its 150th store to offer electric vehicle charging and the launch its first battery-electric truck in partnership with Penske Logistics.  …

Pacifica Gogreen Introduces Cnmi’s First Commercial Ev Charging Station 

CNMI’s first commercial electric vehicle charging station will be accessible to all EV green drivers in Saipan starting tomorrow, Thursday, Sept. 7.  Pacifica Insurance Underwriters, Inc. through its Pacifica GoGreen program, in partnership with Evlution Energy, has built an EV…

Unit Of South Korea’s Solus To Build Canada Copper Foil Facility As Part Of EV Battery Push 

A unit of South Korea’s Solus Advanced Materials will build a copper foil facility in the Canadian province of Quebec, producing technology for electric vehicle (EV) batteries, Ottawa said on Tuesday.  The Volta Energy Solutions project in the town of Granby is valued…