CleanTechnica EVs

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

By Charles Morris It sounds like the perfect plot for a conspiracy thriller: the giant oil companies are buying up electric vehicle charging companies as fast as they can. Do they mean to shut ‘em all down, or just to make sure that the price of charging is high enough that driving an […].

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Green Car Reports

JULY 5, 2018

As electric cars begin eating into profit growth at oil companies, the war for electric-car drivers' pocketbooks has begun. Electric utilities are counting on supplying increasing quantities of juice, especially during off-peak hours to make their operations more efficient—and not insignificantly to boost revenues along the way.

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Teslarati

MARCH 19, 2024

Gas and oil giant Shell is looking to close as many as 1,000 retail gas stations in the coming years, as it pivots toward deployment of electric vehicle (EV) charging stations. The company has also said it plans to focus on public charging stations, rather than on home charging, due to its competitive advantages in the sector.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 13, 2023

Hertz this week announced plans to nearly triple its EV rental fleet in the heart of America's oil industry. The rental giant plans to bring 2,100 EVs to Houston, as well as an "EV fast-charging hub" at Houston Hobby airport that will serve both ride-hailing drivers and the general public, according to a company press release.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 19, 2023

Volta, a charging company distinguished by its partly free, partly ad-supported EV charging, announced Wednesday that it will be acquired by oil giant Shell.

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Electrek

APRIL 15, 2024

Oil and gas giant BP is slashing jobs at its electric vehicle charging business and pulling out of several markets as its big bet on rapid growth in commercial EV fleets “didn’t pay off,” according to company sources.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Ubitricity, a charging network operator owned by oil giant Shell, is expanding the rollout of lamppost EV chargers in the U.K. The company recently announced that it had been appointed by the governments of the Richmond and Wandsworth borough of greater London to install 1,050 public EV chargers, evenly divided between the boroughs.

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Setec Powerr

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

In order to reduce dependence on oil resources, improve the global energy structure, and reduce pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, vehicle electrification has become a major trend. Along with independent new energy vehicles, there are also charging facilities companies.

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Teslarati

MAY 10, 2022

Oil and gas giant Shell has partnered with Penske Truck Leasing to launch a new joint initiative to support light-duty electric vehicle charging at Penske locations. The companies announced the partnership yesterday at the Advanced Clean Transportation Act Expo. Find out more: [link] pic.twitter.com/Xeb4Yr6uG9.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MARCH 17, 2023

That includes oil companies (like Shell) and gas stations & convenience stores (like 7-Eleven). Regarding the latter, the news this week is that 7-Eleven has launched its own EV charging network! The name of that charging network is 7Charge. The first […]

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InsideEVs

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

What exactly does the oil industry have in store for charging companies?

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Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2017

Oil demand for transportation fuel see its “ demand will flatten out ,” after 2030, Couse said. Colin McKerracher, head of advanced transport analysis at Bloomberg New Energy Finance, sees Couse’s forecast as the highest EV sales margin yet to be forecasted by a major company in the oil sector. Maybe even decline. ”.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Neste is the first company in Finland to provide a service for companies and other organizations to monitor their climate emissions caused by the use of transport fuels. Neste’s new service supports companies in monitoring their emissions and emissions reductions, and encourages them to replace the use of fossil fuels.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Oil giant Royal Dutch Shell and Chinese EV firm Nio last week announced a cooperative agreement to expand charging and battery swapping stations in Europe and China. The agreement includes a network of co-branded battery swapping stations, starting with two pilot sites in China, the two companies said in press releases.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 26, 2021

Oil giant Royal Dutch Shell will buy charging-infrastructure Ubitricity, a German company that specializes in streetside charging for electric cars.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

With oil prices low and showing no sign of an immediate rebound, the industry is beginning to pull back on spending. Oil prices have dropped around 30 percent since summer highs, raising fears among producers across the globe. Yet, many oil majors are relatively diversified, with large holdings downstream.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 14, 2022

A possible answer, though, might lie in oil wells. The California-based Hyperlight Energy will be piloting an installation where they plan to use existing oil wells as solar thermal wellsprings, with the stored energy being converted back to clean electricity when required. to test the concept for the first time.

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Teslarati

APRIL 15, 2021

Goldman Sachs is preparing for the lapse of the Age of Oil, predicting big gains for the companies that continue to help expand the footprint of sustainable energy. “We now expect transport oil to peak in 2026, but we see robust growth for petrochemicals and jet fuel offsetting declines in transport demand in 2025-2030.”

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 26, 2020

To achieve mass adoption, the average electric car will need to offer 31-minute charging, 291 miles of range, and a base price of $36,000. Those three factors comprise a global tipping point for EVs, according to a new study commissioned by oil company Castrol, which is looking to sell so-called "e-fluid" lubricants for EVs.

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Baua Electric

MAY 10, 2024

BP is eying Tesla Supercharger sites as part of a planned expansion of the oil giant’s U.S. charging network, Bloomberg reports. The company said it “is aggressively looking to acquire real estate to scale our network, which is a heightened focus following the recent Tesla announcement.”

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 12, 2024

Photo by Juan Mt on Pexels.com The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will fine oil and gas companies for emitting excess methane – the first federal government tax ever on greenhouse gas emissions. That’s because methane is a climate “super pollutant” that’s more potent than carbon dioxide.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 27, 2011

JX Nippon Oil, Idemitsu Kosan Co, Cosmo Oil Co. and Showa Shell Sekiyu KK are collaborating to test a fixed-fee EV charging service at 27 of their affiliated gas stations in Tokyo and Kanagawa Prefecture during the first quarter of 2012.

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Teslarati

MARCH 20, 2023

TotalEnergies, a prominent French gas station chain, has announced it plans to sell its gas station locations in Germany and the Netherlands as it pursues EV charging and hydrogen fueling. “TotalEnergies has been looking at ways to develop non-fuel revenues in its retail business,” says the company’s announcement.

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Electrek

JANUARY 16, 2022

Oil giant BP claims the use of its BP pulse electric vehicle chargers is “on the cusp” of being more profitable for the company than filling up an internal combustion-powered car with gas.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2020

According to the report, global VC funding (venture capital, private equity, and corporate venture capital) for Battery Storage, Smart Grid, and Efficiency companies in 2019 was 18% lower with $2.3 In 2019, VC funding into Battery Storage companies increased by 103% to $1.7 billion compared to $2.8 billion raised in 2018. Smart Grid.

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Electrek

OCTOBER 22, 2021

This week, I got to sit down with Tannaz Banisadre, COO of Greenlots, a company that was acquired by oil and energy behemoth Shell almost two years ag o.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 31, 2019

Electric cars are getting the attention of oil companies. On Wednesday, one of the largest fast-charging networks in the U.S., Greenlots, announced that it had been bought by oil giant Royal Dutch Shell—via the subsidiary Shell New Energies US LLC. the kind.

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Electric Vehicles India

MARCH 28, 2023

With the help of a Rs 800 crore subsidy transfer from the Ministry of Heavy Industries, India’s public sector oil-marketing companies (OMCs) will shortly install 7,432 EV charging stations. The OMCs include Indian Oil Corporation (IndianOil), Bharat Petroleum Corporation (BPCL), and Hindustan Petroleum Corporation (HPCL).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Lightning Systems, a global developer of zero-emission drivetrains, introduced “Lightning On Tap” charging solutions, a comprehensive offering of AC and DC fast charge charging stations. We can now help overcome that challenge by delivering a full suite of charging hardware and software options.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2018

a US-based manufacturer of mobile electric vehicle (EV) rapid charging systems, and plans to roll out FreeWire’s Mobi Charger units for use at selected BP retail sites in the UK and Europe during 2018. Freewire products currently offer Level 2 charging at 7.5 kW or DC fast charging at 50 kW.

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CleanTechnica EVs

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Now that Tesla has grown to become a trillion-dollar company (larger than any of the legacy automakers, and larger than most of the “oil giants”), the petroleum crowd has […]. By Charles Morris A few years ago, when electric vehicles were considered an R&D project, the fossil fuel interests had little to say about them.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 28, 2010

Eaton Corporation will collaborate with Takaoka Electric Manufacturing Company, Ltd. The collaboration will enable Eaton to provide a complete line of charging stations across residential, commercial and industrial applications in North America. The company was founded in 1918 and employs 1,086 people.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Greta Bekerytė started out cleaning offices and ended up designing electronics for EV charging stations. Today she works as a hardware engineer at Zaptec , which makes electric-vehicle charging stations and is also based in Stavanger. She was hired to clean offices, and her boyfriend found a job washing the inside of oil tankers.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 21, 2024

Driven by anticipated expansion of the country’s battery demand, the two companies will conduct a feasibility study to finalize details of their collaboration by summer. The country’s largest state-owned oil production company, IndianOil has in recent years been developing clean energy sources, including solar power, biofuels and hydrogen.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 17, 2022

Oil companies expanding electric car fast-charging networks might not entirely be the image-burnishing loss-leader some would suspect. BP sees EV charging as a business line bound for profitability, according to a report from Reuters, citing a top executive at the energy giant.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

One casualty of the oil price downturn could be the megaproject. For years, as conventional oil reserves depleted and became increasingly hard to find, oil companies ventured into far-flung locales to find new sources of production. The collapse of oil prices, however, could kill off the megaproject.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 31, 2019

As part of a strategy to continue providing low-emissions solutions for harsh offshore operating environments, Siemens has opened a fully robotized and digitalized plant in Norway that will develop and manufacture energy storage technologies for both marine and offshore oil and gas applications. Earlier post.).

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