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Planning an EV Road Trip? Good Luck Finding a Hotel With a Charger
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Planning an EV Road Trip? Good Luck Finding a Hotel With a Charger

[ad_1] The journey is no longer the major pain point for electric car drivers embarking on the great American road trip. It's the destination.For those who don't already own an EV, rental car giants like Hertz Global Holdings Inc. offer plenty of options across the cost spectrum. And there are more than 63,000 places to plug in on the road scattered around the US and Canada, with more coming soon at major gas stations. But EV chargers are still largely absent from one crucial node on many a road trip: hotels and inns. A recent survey of 17,000 hotels in the American Hotel and Lodging Association found only about a quarter offer EV charging. Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc. and Hyatt Hotels Corp. have chargers at less than a third of their US properties. Calling around to more than two doz...
Tesla Chargers Win More Backers as Its Plug Becomes US Standard
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Tesla Chargers Win More Backers as Its Plug Becomes US Standard

[ad_1] Tesla Inc.'s charging technology won more backers as a handful of players in the electric-vehicle power industry said they would offer compatible equipment, further solidifying the automaker's system as the US standard.ChargePoint Holdings Inc., Blink Charging Co. and Wallbox NV each said Monday they will have chargers capable of working with Tesla's North American Charging Standard, which is quickly winning in competition with the so-called Combined Charging System. Australia's Tritium DCFC Ltd. also said it would offer an NACS connector option with its chargers. The rapid succession of announcement comes just days after car giants General Motors Co. and Ford Motor Co. agreed to join with Elon Musk's company by adopting standardized NACS ports in future models. These latest move...
Ford electric vehicle owners to get access to Tesla Supercharger network starting next spring
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Ford electric vehicle owners to get access to Tesla Supercharger network starting next spring

[ad_1] All of Ford Motor Co.'s current and future electric vehicles will have access to about 12,000 Tesla Supercharger stations in the U.S. and Canada starting next spring.Ford CEO Jim Farley and Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced the agreement Thursday during a “Twitter Spaces” audio chat. “We think this is a huge move for our industry and for all electric customers,” Farley said. Musk said he didn't want Tesla's network to be a “walled garden” and that he wants to use it to support sustainable transportation.“It is our intent to do everything possible to support Ford and have Ford be on an equal footing at Tesla Superchargers,” Musk said.Farley said there will be a cost to Ford owners, perhaps a monthly subscription, but he didn't give specifics. Details of any financial arrangement betwe...