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Is Your Dealership Ready for EV Buyers?

Blink Charging

Here are a few steps your dealership should take to ensure it is ready to sell EVs: Install EV infrastructure Perhaps the most obvious step is to install EV charging stations at the dealership to ensure EVs are always topped up with juice for test drives and so buyers can leave the lot with a full battery.

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Tale of Two 2,000-mile EV Rural Road Trips

Clean Fleet Report

Since it was not a Level 2 charger, I knew it would not gain much juice overnight. That meant looking for a decent public DC charging station in a nearby town. I don’t understand why all chargers won’t accept credit cards just as they do at gas stations. I duly plugged it into an exterior household outlet. In summary.

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Ford, Volkswagen, and GM Explore EV-Powered Houses

Cars That Think

And in the last two weeks, one of the largest utility companies in the United States, Pacific Gas & Electric, announced plans to work with General Motors in experiments with their bidirectional charging technologies. In case of power outage at home, the DC pins in the charger can send juice back into the house, keeping the lights on.

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We drove the 500hp electric Arc Sport and holy heck, this thing rips

Baua Electric

The Sport is also capable of 225kW CCS DC charging, for the few marinas that have installed DC fast chargers (there’s one in Tahoe ). And it’s a lot cheaper to fuel than paying marina rates for gasoline. That brings us to the “range” question, which is a different set of calculus for boats.

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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

Cars That Think

In California, regulators separated generation from distribution and sold 40 percent of installed capacity to newly created independent power producers that specialized in peaking power. Then market speculators got into the act, sending wholesale prices up 800 percent and bankrupting Pacific Gas & Electric.

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Why One LEAF-Driving Cop Can't Drive Straight Home After Work Anymore

Plugs and Cars

We chatted while he finished charging his LEAF at the recently installed Quick Charger at the new Market Street Whole Foods in San Francisco. Many became very interested after Bill showed up in his LEAF and told them the hundreds he had been spending on gas paid the lease on his cool new ride -- and then some.

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Newly launch by Tesla on its Multinational Supercharger for Electric Vehicles

EV Report

Couples of years back, Electric Vehicles were not in demand and there were two categories of people – one set of people who wanted to use electric but did not trust on any such single vehicle and secondly – cars that can do everything – gas powered vehicles being replaced by Electric Vehicles. Reference – [link].