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How Truck Stops and Convenience Stores Can Benefit from Holiday EV Travel

Blink Charging

Because most convenience stores or fuel stations are not intended as destinations where drivers park for several hours, DCFCs are the ideal type of charger for quick charging. DCFCs are capable of charging a vehicle battery in under an hour.

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The US Needs 20 Times More EV Charging Stations by 2030… Or Else

Blink Charging

The federal government and automakers have set new goals for electric vehicle sales, and now it’s up to the business world and EV charging companies like Blink to provide the right number of EV chargers by 2030. In fact, BEVs accounted for 3.2% of the total light-duty vehicle market in 2021!

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Senate Energy Bill Contains $3.8B for Natural Gas Vehicle Conversion and Purchasing, $400M for Plug-in Vehicle Deployment

Green Car Congress

The rebates are primarily targeted at medium- and heavy-duty vehicles; of the funding allocated for rebates, not more than 25% is to be used to provide rebates to qualified owners for the purchase of qualified alternative fuel vehicles that have a gross vehicle rating of not more than 8,500 pounds.

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How to Select the Right Charging Level for Your Parking Facility

Blink Charging

Like Level 1 chargers, they feed alternating current (AC) into the vehicle’s on-board charger to convert to direct current (DC) power which can be stored in the battery. Drivers often only charge their batteries to 80% in order to take advantage of regenerative braking features.)

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Hyundai to offer Tucson Fuel Cell vehicle to LA-area retail customers in spring 2014; Honda, Toyota show latest FCV concepts targeting 2015 launch

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Currently, there’s an ongoing debate about the future of the electric vehicle, which Hyundai condensed into two approaches: Store more electricity on-board using more/larger batteries. Create electricity on-board with hydrogen-powered fuel cell technology. Hyundai is taking the second approach. —John Krafcik.

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California Air Resources Board releases proposed Advanced Clean Car package: LEV III, GHG and ZEV rules to transform the California fleet; ZEVs and TZEVs to be 15+% of new vehicle sales by 2025

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While staff has worked with USEPA in an effort to align many of the requirements of the two programs, some elements of the proposed LEV III program are expected to remain more stringent than the federal program in order to address California’s unique air pollution problems.