Charging

Nissan’s announcement that it has approved the Fermata Energy FE-20 bidirectional charger and V2X Platform for use with the Leaf is more consequential than the typical automotive branding effort.

EV owner satisfaction with the public-charging experience improved for two consecutive quarters in the first half of 2024, says J.D. Power in its latest U.S. Electric Vehicle Experience (EVX) Public Charging Study.

Omni Port will make ChargePoint chargers accessible to all EVs, whereas before, drivers either needed to carry an adapter with them or find a charger with a compatible plug.

Mercedes-Benz has partnered with Starbucks in an initiative that will install public DC fast-charging stations at 100 locations along Interstate 5.

Bidirectional charging aims to put an EV’s battery to work, whether it’s to power a home during an outage or send power back to the grid en masse.

Ionna, an automaker-led partnership to develop a nationwide public-charging network, is now joined by a company known for its reluctance to develop EVs: Toyota.

E-roadways are an industrial-strength relative of the kind of inductive Qi charging technology that lets you wirelessly charge your devices, but how do such inductive-charging roads work for EVs?

Are there hidden costs that could make owning an EV as much or more expensive? The evidence is no, not over time.

Many BMW nameplates that aren’t receiving major refreshes for 2025 are seeing minor improvements instead, including the X1, X2, XM, iX, 5 Series and 7 Series.

In the pursuit of experience, we drove a 2024 Kia EV9 GT-Line from L.A. to Las Vegas and learned some lessons about the now and future of our EV timeline.