All the news about EV charging in the US

The authorities of electrical conveyance charging successful North America is shaping up for illustration nan smartphone charging wars — but focused connected overmuch much costly hardware. Right now, for illustration USB-C and Android phones, nan Combined Charging System (CCS, Type 1) plug is connected a greater assortment of cars. Meanwhile, Tesla’s plug was agelong compared to Apple and Lightning.

But while Apple yet adopted USB-C, Tesla is opening up its connector, renaming it nan North American Charging Standard (NACS), and trying to shove CCS retired of nan way.

Meanwhile, Europe already dealt pinch its standards rumor by settling connected CCS2. For now, EV drivers successful their Tesla Model Ys, Kia EV6s, and Nissan Leafs (with nan ailing CHAdeMO connector) successful nan US are still stuck looking for nan correct position aliases adapter and hoping everything’s operational — but things should get easier soon.

To thief lick these issues, nan national authorities has established a pool of $7.5 cardinal to money charging web operators successful building reliable EV infrastructure.

North America tin go a awesome and convenient spot to ain an electrical vehicle, but really agelong will that take? You tin find retired by reference each nan news astir electrical conveyance charging correct here, truthful travel backmost and plug successful often.

• The United States now has 1 EV charging position for each 15 state stations.

  Bloomberg:

  Almost 600 nationalist fast-charging stations were switched connected for US drivers successful nan first 3 months of nan year, a 7.6% summation complete nan extremity of 2023, according to a Bloomberg Green analysis of federal data. There are now almost 8,200 quick-turn EV stations crossed nan country, aliases 1 for every 15 state stations. Tesla is responsible for somewhat much than 1 4th of them.

  EV charging is still a spot much analyzable than a fill-up, what pinch different charging speeds, competing standards, and rival networks, but alignment is underway.

  
  

• Google Maps will usage AI to thief you find out-of-the-way EV chargers

  Photo by Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge

  Google Maps is rolling retired immoderate caller updates designed to make locating an electrical conveyance charging position little stressful. And to execute this, it will (of course) thin heavy connected artificial intelligence.

  Google says it will usage AI to summarize customer reviews of EV chargers to show much circumstantial directions to definite chargers, specified arsenic those located successful parking garages aliases much hard-to-find places. And location will beryllium much prompts successful nan app to promote users to taxable their feedback aft utilizing an EV charger — which will past beryllium fed into nan algorithm for early AI-powered summaries.

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• Revel offers 25 percent charging discounts to eligible Uber drivers successful NYC.

  In summation to discounts for eligible Uber Pro drivers, Revel will usage anonymized Uber information to determine connected early EV charging station locations to reside “charging deserts,” according to a property merchandise shared pinch The Verge by Uber spokesperson Conor Ferguson.

  Revel CEO Frank Reig says this will thief it turn its charging business successful NYC and, eventually, different cities. Revel plans to adhd 48 nationalist fast-charging stations adjacent nan rideshare waiting area of New York’s La Guardia Airport.

  
  

  Revel will usage Uber driver information to nonstop its EV charging position description .

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• Tesla says that Rivian, GM, Polestar, and Volvo are adjacent successful statement for Supercharger access.

  Ford EV owners are the first to get access, pinch nan institution opening up orders for complimentary NACS-to-CCS adapters starting today. And (as noticed by Electrek) adjacent successful statement will beryllium GM, Rivian, Polestar, and Volvo. The companies will besides request to rotation retired package updates to let Tesla’s chargers to automatically admit their vehicles for billing purposes.

  
  

• Rivian owners pinch iPhones tin usage Live Activities to show charging.

  If you person 1 of Rivian’s electrical trucks and an iPhone, you tin support an oculus connected nan position of your charging advancement a small easier pinch the type 2.7.0 update.

  As 9to5Mac points out, support for the Live Activities characteristic added successful iOS 16 keeps nan charging accusation pinned connected your fastener surface aliases successful nan Dynamic Island connected iPhone 14 and 15 Pro models.

  
  

• Ford is testing its Tesla Supercharger adapter.

  Ford CEO Jim Farley showed disconnected nan charging adapter successful a station connected Threads and said nan institution will stock “more info very soon.” The CCS to NACS charging adapter is expected to commencement shipping to Ford EV owners free of charge this spring.

  
  

• Google Maps mightiness soon show Plug and Charge EV stations — wherever you salary pinch your car.

  Android Authority spotted 3 strings of related codification erstwhile it pulled isolated nan Android APK, including this description:

  Charging stations pinch plug and complaint fto you complaint much conveniently, without utilizing your telephone aliases charging card. You tin group up plug and complaint successful your vehicle’s settings and costs app.

  Some cars already support Plug and Charge, and location was even talk of standardizing connected it successful North America.

  
  

• Lucid slashes prices for its luxury EVs for nan 3rd clip successful 7 months

  Photo by Tim Stevens for The Verge

  Lucid Motors announced it was slashing prices connected astir of its electrical vehicles and would besides supply up to $1,000 for customers to acquisition charging equipment. It was nan 3rd value simplification announced by nan institution successful conscionable 7 months and came arsenic nan institution continues to struggle to make request amid a broader slowdown successful EV income maturation crossed aggregate markets.

  Lucid said its guidelines Air Pure exemplary pinch rear-wheel thrust would now commencement astatine $71,400, which includes a $1,500 destination fee. That’s down from Air Pure’s $78,900 value announced successful October, which itself was down from nan $83,900 value that was reported successful August.

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• Stellantis becomes nan past awesome automaker to adopt Tesla’s charging plug

  Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge

  Stellantis, genitor institution to storied brands for illustration Chrysler, Jeep, Ram, and Dodge, said it will adopt Tesla’s electrical conveyance charging plug for its early EVs — becoming nan past awesome car institution to do so.

  Stellantis said its first EVs to characteristic nan SAE J3400 plug, besides known arsenic Tesla’s North American Charging Standard, will beryllium retired successful 2025. During nan modulation period, nan institution said it will supply adapters to customers who ain EVs pinch Combined Charging Standard, aliases CCS, plugs.

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• Tesla Supercharger successful Chicago packed pinch “dead robots” that can’t complaint successful nan cold.

  Electrek points retired this Fox 32 report from Monday showing Teslas that couldn’t charge successful subzero temperatures, akin to issues immoderate drivers reported last winter.

  It’s unclear if drivers grounded to warm nan batteries by preconditioning (EVs successful Norway, for example, seem to get by somehow) aliases if nan chargers failed, and Tesla doesn’t respond to questions. Another study from WGN News points to agelong lines astatine functioning stations and includes a work halfway usability telling group to parkland their cars wrong if possible.

  
  

• LG is building an EV charger mill successful Texas.

  The institution has announced that it’s building its first US-based charger accumulation mill successful Texas “in consequence to nan increasing request for EV charging stations crossed North America.” LG besides plans connected rolling retired 11kW and 175kW EV chargers, on pinch 350kW accelerated chargers successful nan US this year.

  
  

• So astir that nationwide EV charging network.

  This study says that contempt nan billions successful backing approved successful 2021, only Ohio and New York person utilized them for caller EV charging stations truthful acold arsenic states navigate biology effect and CCS vs. NACS.

  It besides cites a survey uncovering that 80 percent of group said a deficiency of chargers is 1 of their reasons for not buying an EV, suggesting nan slow rollout (we said patience would beryllium required) could temper demand. And wherever chargers exist, immoderate person recovered that owed to unreliability, they’re not guaranteed to supply more than a shopping convenience.

  
  

• Volkswagen, Porsche, and Audi yet opportunity they will usage Tesla’s EV charging plug

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  Volkswagen Group, which besides owns Audi, Porsche, and Scout Motors, is yet doing what astir each different automaker has already done: denote its volition to adopt Tesla’s electrical conveyance charging standard.

  VW said it is “exploring adapter solutions” truthful that its existent EV owners tin entree Tesla’s Supercharger web and expects to person thing to rotation retired by 2025. That aforesaid year, you’ll commencement to spot caller VW electrical vehicles rolling disconnected nan assembly statement pinch Tesla’s charging larboard natively installed. All told, VW says nan woody will springiness its customers entree to 15,000 Supercharger locations successful North America.

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• Those GM-partnered EV charging stations consciousness inspired.

  Skipping nan state position is 1 of nan astir freeing aspects of switching to an EV, but sometimes group miss it for nan amenities — for illustration utilizing those squeegees to cleanable their windshields while refueling.

  Well, opportunity hullo to this GM Ultium-branded gas-station-looking EV charging hub successful Ohio, which looks for illustration it’s portion of nan recently announced EVgo and Pilot partnership. It’s sewage nan acquainted canopy, accessories, and nan pull-up-at-the-petrol-pump vibe.

  
  

• Ford and Xcel Energy will build 30,000 EV charging ports for fleet businesses

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  Ford whitethorn beryllium dialing backmost immoderate of its larger EV investments, but it’s still operating nether nan presumption that a batch of businesses will beryllium willing successful electrifying their fleets eventually. The institution is partnering pinch Xcel Energy to instal 30,000 EV charging ports for fleet customers by 2030, astatine small to nary costs to nan businesses to nan businesses themselves.

  The task will beryllium tally retired of Ford Pro, which is nan automaker’s commercialized conveyance and package division. The first EV charger installations will statesman successful nan first 4th of 2024 successful 2 states, Wisconsin and Colorado, and later will turn to see much states, said Amanda Rome, executive vice president and main customer serviceman astatine Xcel Energy.

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• EVgo and Meijer are linking up to instal much accelerated chargers successful Ohio.

  The nationwide electrical conveyance charging web institution and nan Midwest superstore concatenation person already installed 24 charging stalls successful six locations crossed Michigan and Ohio.

  Fresh disconnected of National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) funding, EVgo will supply white-label chargers to Meijer and will besides negociate installation, ongoing operation, and maintenance. Ohio’s $13.8 cardinal allocation of nan backing is bully for 20 caller locations for EV chargers, of which EVgo will grip 14.

  
  

  EVgo accelerated chargers astatine a Meijer supercenter location.

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• Ford revises dealership EV charger rules aft pushback.

  Premium “Certified Elite” dealership locations now only request to instal 3 AC charging stations alternatively of 5 by June 30th, 2024 — a six-month delay. They won’t request to instal a DC accelerated charger by 2026. And required EV training costs person besides been reduced.

  The automaker changed nan rules aft immoderate of its Illinois dealerships based on that nan demands for EV sales and its certification program violated authorities franchise laws.

  
  

• Hertz and EVgo’s year-long connection is for illustration a discount state card, isolated from for EVs.

  Hertz and charging web EVgo are partnering to connection EV car renters 1 twelvemonth of discounted charging rates pinch nary monthly subscription aliases complaint fees.

  To return advantage, EV renters tin sign up online aliases scan a QR codification astatine Hertz locations and group up a caller EVgo relationship from now until November 2024. Then you tin spell to 1 of EVgo’s 950-plus stations successful nan US — and hope you find 1 that works!

  
  

• Broken, busted, and retired of order.

  After experiencing fast-charging vexation successful her Mustang Mach-E, WSJ’s Joanna Stern tried connecting DC chargers to a Rivian R1T astatine 30 LA-area stations from EVgo, Electrify America, and EVCS. More than 40 percent of nan stations had a problem somewhere, pinch 27 percent of nan 126 charging stalls offline.

  A batch of money is being spent to amended charging electrical cars successful nan US, but surgery parts, handshake issues, and costs processing are still hurdles. Opening up entree to Tesla’s Superchargers and switching complete to NACS whitethorn thief immoderate successful nan future, but this is nan present.