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Mercedes-Benz Trucks opens charging park for customers in Wörth

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Mercedes-Benz Trucks, together with its project partner, the services division of Netze BW, has opened a charging park for customers near the Application Information Center (BIC) in Wörth am Rhein. To start, the eTruck Charging Park has six charging stations from different manufacturers with outputs between 40 kW and 300 kW.

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Make It Yours: The Best Ways to Personalize Your Electric Car

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With the right personal touches, you can turn your electric car into something that truly reflects your personality and style. Personalized/Private Plate The Ultimate Personal Touch Nothing says unique like personalized or private number plates. Add a personal message, your name, or a favorite image.

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Personal: My Ongoing EV Adventure

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This is fine for commuting, but I had to be diligent with charging and couldnt decide impulsively to take the long way home. The much longer range meant fewer charges and longer trips. After years of driving EVs, you get used to thinking about conserving charge. But the second weakness was the real concern.

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Franklin’s Charging Delivers The Fast Charging Experience The World Needs

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We wrote about a regional EV charging company called Franklin’s Charging when they opened their first location in Little Rock, Arkansas. Reading about cool new EV charging business models online is great, but there’s nothing that can replace checking them out in person. Are the chargers easy to pull into?

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UC Davis researcher finds ride-hailing EVs offer triple the emissions benefits of a personally owned EV

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Replacing a gasoline-powered ride-hailing vehicle with an electric vehicle can deliver three times the carbon benefits of a personally owned electric vehicle, according to a study by a University of California, Davis, researcher of Uber and Lyft data. Ride-hailing vehicles travel more miles than personal vehicles, making them more efficient.

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Porsche opens Europe’s most powerful rapid-charging park in Leipzig; 7MW, all renewable energy

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Porsche Leipzig is expanding the charging infrastructure for electric vehicles in central Germany with a new charging park called Porsche Turbo Charging. The total capacity of the facility, which includes six internal quick charging points, is 7 MW. Porsche Turbo Charging, Rapid-charging park, Leipzig.

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UCSD team suggests building more fast-charging stations based on study of pandemic impact on EV charging

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A team of engineers at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) recommends expanding fast-charging stations for electric vehicles as campuses and businesses start planning for a post-pandemic world. As expected, charging declined significantly once most campus operations became remote. DC fast charging initially dropped by 67%.

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