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California is piloting a US$3m project to integrate Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) technology with electric school buses.

Penske Truck Leasing and Hitachi Energy are launching a groundbreaking project to test large-scale electric truck charging.

Beam Global has received its first order from the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) for solar EV charging systems for bases on the island of Cyprus.

EVC&I had a great chat with EV charging industry guru Thomas Speidel, founder and CEO of ADS-TEC Energy, at the EV Charging Summit & Expo in Las Vegas.

Two public transit agencies have found plenty of success – and overcome a few bumps in the road, too.

Will churches become EV charging hotspots? Will ‘WD’ Scherle of Soulful Synergy LLC sees the potential. Churches often have a great deal of parking space that is only used one or two days per week. That makes them great potential EV charging sites – especially in crowded urban areas. “Tax exemption gets a little tricky, but that’s for another day,” Scherle said.

EV charging infrastructure deployments that are funded by the US government's National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) funding programme have sometimes faced issues with achieving the NEVI requirement to achieve 97% charger uptime.

EV charging platform Monta says it aims to lead the charge to support the UK’s grid stability with Powerbank, its latest grid services technology.

Chris Hutter, CEO of National Power, will be one of the high-profile speakers at this week's EV Charging Expo & Summit in Las Vegas. Speaking to EV Charging & Infrastructure ahead of the show, he says availability and reliability are the two major issues needing to be addressed to ensure EV users have confidence in the US charging infrastructure.

Kempower has delivered its first public charging systems in Kleve, Germany at a charging hub operated by Kuster Energy.