Gravity, a New York-based startup specializing in EV infrastructure, has opened a new public charging station, touted as the fastest in the US.
With the ability to replenish up to 200 miles of range in a mere five minutes of charging, drivers can get back on roads more quickly, bringing the segment closer to time parity with traditional gas station visits.
The new charging center exists in a parking garage through a partnership with Related Companies, in which the former mounted its ceiling-mounted 500kW Distributed Energy Access Points (DEAPs) within the footprint of existing parking spaces.
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According to the 2019 Traffic Signal Benchmarking and State of the Practice Report, sitting at red lights and the associated traffic caused by them costs society almost $23 billion a year.
Engineers at the University of Michigan have developed a new method for creating traffic models using data from connected cars that will allow traffic light timing to be optimized every few months, rather than every few years—and at a much lower cost.
While most traditional forms of traffic monitoring only show the volume of cars traveling through an intersection with an estimated speed, this new method allows researchers to see speeds and delays between intersections. New timing plans decreased travel times by 20%, and the need to stop at traffic lights by 30%.
MoveEV, an AI-powered EV transition platform that helps organizations convert fleet and employee-owned gas vehicles to electric and reimburse for charging at home, has announced a new Home Charging Savings Calculator for fleet managers who currently or soon will manage electric vehicles (EVs).
The calculator requests simple inputs: the type of electric vehicle (sedan, truck, SUV), average annual mileage, and vehicle range.
The Home Charging Savings Calculator is part of MoveEV's commitment to promoting efficient fleet management practices and accelerating the country’s adoption of climate-friendly electric vehicles.
"Showing the ROI of electrification is essential if we want fleet managers to embrace the switch to electric vehicles,” said David Lewis, CEO of MoveEV.
Launched in California in 2019, Xeal focuses primarily on installing level-two EV chargers for multi-family apartment or condo complexes, university residence halls, and other mostly private spaces.
In 2021, Xeal introduced a distributed-ledger technology called Apollo. Xeal chargers have no WiFi or cellular connection, nor do they require the user's phone to have a cellular signal—a great thing, since many are located deep within parking garages that can act like Faraday cages. They simply rely on nearfield communication with the phone. In addition to enhancing reliability, this makes Xeal chargers less expensive to operate, too, because they don't each need their own cellular data plan.
There is nothing about the Apollo communications protocol that limits it to level 2 charging; it just so happens that Xeal has focused its marketing on real estate management companies to provide residential-type charging.