Charged Magazine

The world’s most visited city plans to eliminate gas- and diesel-fueled cars by 2030. Paris City Hall said in a statement that France’s target date of 2040 for a transition to electric vehicles would require earlier phase-outs in large cities.
The French capital has long been plagued by choking air pollution, …read more

Washington-based Zunum Aero, profiled in the July/August issue of Charged, has unveiled details of its first aircraft – a hybrid plane with a capacity of 12 passengers and a range of 700 miles. It will have a maximum cruise speed of 340 miles per hour, and a take-off distance of …read more

The city of Los Angeles has ordered 2 zero-emission refuse trucks. These Class 8 trucks feature a Motiv All-Electric Powertrain, a Crane Carrier chassis, and an Amrep automated side-loader body.
The trucks will be built by Amrep in Los Angeles, and are to be delivered in the first quarter of 2018. …read more

Whatever you may think about Ford’s efforts to sell its plug-in vehicles, when it comes to workplace charging, the company is forging ahead. It currently has 200 charging stations at 50 facilities in the US and Canada, and it plans to triple that number to 600 in the next two …read more

Nikola Motor Company is partnering with Bosch on the development of its hydrogen fuel cell range-extended electric Class 8 long-haul truck, which was unveiled as a prototype last December.
By 2021, the company intends to bring the Nikola One and Two to market, each of which will deliver more than 1,000 …read more

BYD says the latest expansion of its Lancaster, California plant makes it North America’s largest battery-electric bus manufacturing facility. The grand opening was attended by a coterie of local politicians.
The new wing brings the total size of the facility to nearly 450,000 square feet, almost four times its initial 2013 …read more

New York-based alpha-En has won an award of $750,000 from the DOE’s Office of Technology Transition Technology Commercialization Fund. The funding will be used to commercialize Argonne National Laboratory’s proprietary highly conductive solid-state electrolyte coating for alpha-En’s lithium metal anodes.
alpha-En says its lithium metal is purer than what is currently …read more

Georgia-based Green4U Technologies showed its first all-electric vehicles – the MTU-6 and Enova SUVs – at two recent US trade shows.
The developmental prototypes on display feature all-electric powertrains that will deliver up to 230 miles of range. Both vehicles, which are designed primarily for fleet use, will share an in-house-designed …read more

Efacec has developed a mobile fast charger that’s built into a towable 20-foot container. The system can charge three vehicles simultaneously, and can be fed through the local electrical grid or by a generator.
The container includes three HV350 charger units, as well as a power management system. It provides output …read more

Jaguar Land Rover, which recently announced that it will add electrification to all its vehicles by 2020, has now released a few details of its first PHEV, which it plans to offer as a 2019 model.
The Range Rover P400e combines a 296 hp 2.0-liter four-cylinder Ingenium gasoline engine with a …read more