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US drugstore chain Walgreens plans to have electric-vehicle (EV) charging stations up at some 800 locations across the country by the end of the year. The plan would make the chain the largest retail host of EV charging stations in the US. The charging stations will feature either a high-speed
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Working with its OnStar subsidiary, General Motors has announced plans to start real-world tests to see how intelligent energy management can make electric-vehicle (EV) charging as efficient as possible and keep EV drivers’ electric bills as low as possible. GM says the smart-grid pilot will help pave the way for
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Energy management specialist Schneider Electric has just come out with its latest offering: the EVlink outdoor electric vehicle (EV) charging station. The outdoor stations are the newest addition to the company’s EVlink portfolio, which features a line of residential and commercial EV charging solutions. The availability of the EVlink
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Portugal is rolling out more than 1,000 new charging stations for electric vehicles with the help of Oracle and the non-profit association Inteli. Part of the Portuguese government’s MOBI-E vehicle electrification project, the pilot will see the installation of 1,300 slow charging stations and 50 fast charging
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Home improvement retailer Lowe’s expects to make electric-car charging stations widely available to customers by this September. Lowe’s plans to begin selling GE’s WattStation wall-mounted charging system at five stores in California starting in August. It says it will offer the charging stations at 60 stores in
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With plans for a commercial launch later this year, electric car-focused Better Place has unveiled its first battery switching station in Europe. The station in Gladsaxe, just outside of Copenhagen, demonstrated the company’s Battery Switch technology by replacing the battery in a Renault Fluence ZE. The station is the
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Luxury electric-car maker Fisker Automotive has partnered with EV Connect for its electric vehicle supply equipment services (EVSE). Under the partnership, EV Connect will install and service charging equipment for owners of Fisker’s electric Karma, as well as for 47 Fisker dealerships throughout the US and Canada. Before Fisker
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Starting early next year, drivers of electric cars in Québec will be able to stay charged up through Canada’s first public charging network for plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs). The first charging stations in “The Electric Circuit” are expected to be operational in early 2012. Stations will be located at
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Europe’s first commercial battery switch station is set to debut in Denmark later this month. The technology, the brainchild of the electric-car business Better Place, enables drivers of plug-in vehicles to quickly exchanges depleted batteries for fresh ones rather than having to wait for a battery to recharge. The
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Behind all the encouraging headlines and press releases about so many new electric vehicle charging stations going up here, and so many new plug-in cars entering the market there, the reality is we still have some serious challenges ahead of us if we want to meet our goal of moving
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Google’s at it again. In a month that’s already seen the search-engine giant put $168 million toward the world’s largest solar project, announce Kansas City as the first municipality to receive Google Fiber high-speed broadband and invest in the world’s largest wind farm, Google is now
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Better Place has partnered with several Canadian agencies to kick off an electric vehicle (EV) charging and demonstration project in Ontario. Its partners include two of Ontario’s largest municipally-owned electric utilities — PowerStream and Veridian Connections — as well as the city of Toronto and national charity Evergreen. The project aims