You Are Thinking That Your Next Car Might Be An EV, But … ?

Credit to Author: Arthur Frederick (Fritz) Hasler| Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2023 19:40:31 +0000

A big portion of new car buyers are now buying fully electric cars. But more are buying non-electric cars. If you’ve been in the bigger, latter group, what’s keeping you from an EV as your next car? Here are some common responses: I would expect to have range anxiety. (Where will I refuel? How long […]

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Tesla Charging Up Sunshine Coast — Road Tripping Made Easy, But Still Some Hiccups

Credit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2023 08:02:23 +0000

Mark Purcell and his family have just completed a holiday drive, travelling 8000 km from the Sunshine Coast in Queensland to Hobart in Tasmania and back, all the while myth busting about the capabilities of electric vehicles. He tells me that he visited 19 Tesla Superchargers with zero wait time at a total cost of […]

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Why I Don’t (& Won’t) Call Tesla’s Charging Plug “NACS”

Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2023 03:00:40 +0000

For the last couple of months, something has really been grinding my gears, but I figured it was a fad that was going to go away. When Tesla renamed its charging connector and called it the “North American Charging Standard,” Tesla fans adopted the NACS acronym overnight. My initial reaction was that it was a bad […]

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EV Charging Stations In The US, Ranked

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2023 17:35:40 +0000

More options than ever are available these days for EV public charging. Several companies have established themselves as the top go-to charging sites when you’re on the road.

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Tesla In 2022 — Stats, Factory Progress, Milestones

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2023 04:47:11 +0000

2022 has been a big year for Tesla, with the automaker surpassing some key milestones despite a bear market. Tesla is heading into 2023 with newly and substantially increased production output, a growing charging infrastructure and energy sector, and firm financials to back these milestones up. Gigafactory Progress Tesla opened two new factories this year: […]

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Massive Tesla Supercharger Buildout in Response to Massive Sales of Model Y, 3, S, & X

Credit to Author: Arthur Frederick (Fritz) Hasler| Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2022 18:50:14 +0000

I picked up my new Tesla Model 3 in October 2019 at the Salt Lake City Delivery Center. Since then, I’ve been very pleased with the Tesla Supercharger network that allows me to travel cross-country on Interstate highways with only a little inconvenience compared with my previous trips in gas-mobiles. I’m particularly pleased with the […]

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You’re Planning On A Non-Tesla EV Purchase For Cross Country Trips — Seriously?

Credit to Author: Arthur Frederick (Fritz) Hasler| Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2022 16:03:53 +0000

You have your eye on an economical Bolt EUV, or your dream battery-electric car, a BMW i7 or Porsche Taycan, but you are planning frequent or even infrequent cross country trips. For this, ideally you will need functioning, unoccupied CCS chargers at 100 mile intervals along your proposed routes. No way! For most proposed cross-country […]

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Lectron To Provide Tesla/NACS Connector & EVSE For Aptera

Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2022 15:58:14 +0000

A couple weeks ago, we covered Aptera’s buried announcement that it will be using the Tesla/NACS plug for its vehicle. It was expected that the company would make this choice, but it was not highlighted. Days later the company announced in a blog post (as the main topic) that it would be using the Tesla […]

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Can Electric Vehicles Revive the Great Aussie Road Trip? Part 2

Credit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2022 20:00:23 +0000

For the beginning of the great Aussie road trip in EVs, you need to read part 1. In Sydney, we stayed with old school friends and demonstrated how we could charge in their garage over the weekend. He is a big fan of Lexus, but they can only offer an EV with 200 km of […]

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