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Coulomb, MasterCard, and the future of public charging

Plugs and Cars

Free Juice Bar explicitly sells charge stations to offer free power. Virtually everyone who enters this parking lot for the foreseeable future will likely pass two empty spots, reserved for apparently non-existent electric vehicles. The question isn't whether drivers of plug-in cars deserve free power. Obviously not.

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Fast-Charging vs. Home-Charging: What Is Better for EV Owners?

Get Electric Vehicle

Understanding Fast Charging Fast charging, or DC fast charging, is a high-power, quick way to add juice to an EV battery. Home charging is cheap and more beneficial for battery life but is time-consuming and needs an upfront investment.

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Test drive: 2024 Lexus RX 450h+ half-steps into future

Baua Electric

But it’s not cheap; it’s not elegant; and Lexus’ tech foibles carry over from the standard RX and other models. Volvo’s system will automatically kick in the gas engine when the accelerator is mashed to the floor, but Lexus doesn’t engage the gas engine in EV only mode unless the juice runs out.

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Review: 2025 Porsche Macan EV Turbo – Electric PowerED SUV Meets Porsche DNA

EV Info

Its the future of Porsches compact SUV and its everything we hoped for. It supports 800V fast charging , which means you can juice it from 10% to 80% in around 21 minutes with a high-speed DC charger. Its not cheap but this is Porsche, and the value lies in how much car youre really getting. equating to.35 35 kWh / mile.

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Review: 2025 Mercedes-Benz AMG E 53 Hybrid blends luxury into sporty PHEV

Baua Electric

Mercedes said the E 53 Hybrid can stay in electric-only mode until the juice is out with exceptions that range from environmental conditions such as battery or ambient temperature, or depending how much power is being called upon. It was happy to do so to a point.

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2023 Kia EV6 GT review: Mega-popular electric vehicle put to the seven-day test

EV Central

“It’s not warm and fuzzy, more a hard, electric future,” I’m told. Day 4: Juicing Up Despite all my driving fun, I’m still returning just under Kia’s official consumption figure. The boot’s not as cavernous as I was expecting, considering the almost wagon-type rear end. Opportunities galore.

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Greentech Media | ECOtality CEO: Fast Charging and Why Battery Swapping Is Doomed

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Email ECOtality CEO: Fast Charging and Why Battery Swapping Is Doomed Jonathan Read discusses why electric vehicles and fast-charging systems, not battery-replacement systems such as the one touted by Project Better Place, are the future. by: Jonathan Read, President and CEO, ECOtality June 24, 2008 ECOtality CEO Jonathan Read.