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A Midnight Stop at a German Motorway Service Area: There Was Power—So Why Couldn’t the Driver Charge?
How one miserable charging experience on a snowy night can cost an operator a customer for good It was 12:47 a.m. on a German motorway. The snow had been falling for three hours. Fine grains of ice battered the windscreen as the wipers swept back and forth, barely clearing two blurred windows ont...Read more -
How to Size an EV Fleet Charging Depot in North America
For a fleet operator, choosing charging hardware is not the first planning decision. The first decision is defining what the depot must accomplish before each vehicle leaves on its next route. A site with more chargers and a higher nameplate power rating is not automatically a better fleet charg...Read more -
How Companies Can Acquire Charging Capability — Paths and Boundaries
How charging capability should be acquired once the vehicle strategy is defined In the previous article, we discussed several ways companies can acquire electric vehicles: purchase, leasing, FaaS, sharing, and retrofitting. The conclusion was straightforward — electrification is not a one-off pro...Read more -
What Is CHAdeMO? A Complete Guide to the EV Charging Connector — and Why It’s Fading Out
If you’ve come across the term “CHAdeMO” while researching EV charging — maybe on a spec sheet, a charging map filter, or a forum thread about an older Nissan Leaf — it’s a connector standard with a genuinely interesting history, and understanding it also helps explain h...Read more -
ISO 15118 Explained: What It Is, Why It Matters, and What’s Different Between -2 and -20
If you’ve been reading EV charger spec sheets lately, you’ve probably run into a line that reads something like “ISO 15118-2 supported, ISO 15118-20 upgradable.” It’s a phrase that shows up more and more often, usually without much explanation of what it actually m...Read more -
The Federal EV Charger Tax Credit Just Expired — Here’s Why ENERGY STAR Certification Matters More Than Ever
On June 30, 2026, the federal Alternative Fuel Vehicle Refueling Property Credit — the tax credit that gave US buyers up to $1,000 back on a home EV charger, and businesses up to 30% back under Section 30C — expired under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. For years, that federal credit was the he...Read more -
What Is CSA Certification for EV Chargers? A Clear Guide to North American Charger Certifications
If you've been shopping for EV charging equipment for the US or Canadian market, you've probably run into an alphabet soup of marks: CSA, UL, ETL, FCC, IC, NTEP, CTEP. Some sound interchangeable. Some aren't. And almost none of the product spec sheets explain which ones ...Read more -
EV Charging Cable Management: The Overlooked Problem Costing Charge Point Operators Millions
For years, the EV charging conversation has centered on charging speed, network coverage, and uptime. But a quieter problem has been building beneath the surface — literally lying on the ground at charging stations around the world: EV charging cable management. As overseas charging networks scal...Read more -
How Distributed Charging Systems Improve Heavy-Duty Fleet Charging Efficiency
If the electrification of passenger vehicles represents the “zero-to-one” transition for mass adoption, then the electrification of logistics and heavy-duty fleets is a “deep-water” challenge focused on energy efficiency. With the global push toward net-zero logistics, an ...Read more