by Amy Barzdukas WiTricity has commissioned a number of research reports to see if consumers want wireless charging for their electric cars and if they are willing to pay for it – and the overwhelming consensus has been “yes” and “yes.” Virtually everyone (96%) wants wireless EV charging, and they deem it a feature that…
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By Craig Cole, Senior Editor EV Pulse Do you know how to be a good electric vehicle owner? Electric vehicles are different, and a lot of drivers don’t have experience with them, so they don’t know the best ways to use their battery-powered cars and trucks. To help you avoid any faux pas, here are…
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By Guest Blogger, Craig Cole, Senior Editor, EV Pulse Will electric vehicles destroy our power grid – that immense system that generates and delivers electricity to your home and workplace? We hear it all the time from the naysayers … “electric vehicles are a scam and they’re going to destroy our power grid.” But is…
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It’s a hot day, the kids will be home from camp soon, and you need to get the groceries put away before they begin running through the house. You hop out of the car, grab multiple grocery bags from the trunk and … forget to plug in your EV! Check out how WiTricity’s video reenactment…
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By Amy Barzdukas The #1 misconception that people have about wireless EV charging is that it somehow must be less efficient and slower than plugging in – I mean, there is an AIR GAP. At WiTricity we talk until we are blue in the face, trying to explain that our technology is not the same…
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by Guest Blogger, Craig Cole, Senior Editor, EV Pulse If you’ve never owned an electric vehicle, there are a lot of confusing terms, like kilowatt-hour… plug-in hybrid… heat pump… and CHAdeMO. Another one that a lot of drivers don’t understand – or even know about – is something called bi-directional charging, but it’s a feature…
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by Eric Cohen Buffalo is no stranger to snow, but a once-in-a-lifetime snowstorm brought the city to its knees. As the December 2022 storm raged for days, dumping four feet of snow and packing winds as high as 70 miles per hour, Jacob Szczygiel hunkered down and ensured everything was safe at home. He had…
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By Guest Blogger Craig Cole, Senior Editor, EV Pulse All vehicles need maintenance, even electrics. But did you know electric vehicles generally require way less service than conventional gas- or diesel-powered cars and trucks? It’s true. Routine ICE and EV maintenance … you’ve got to do it if you want your vehicle to work properly…
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“We drive up. We park. The car starts charging automatically. We walk away. It seems almost too good to be true. Electric vehicles charged wirelessly. No heavy cords. Nothing to trip on in the garage. Just a pad on the floor and the charging takes care of itself.” Seeing is believing as WDIV Local 4…
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Mark Phelan, auto critic and columnist for the Detroit Free Press, recently tested what may be the next big thing in electric vehicle charging in a parking lot on the edge of Detroit’s Corktown neighborhood. “I maneuvered a Ford Mustang Mach-E astride an 11-kW wireless pad that charged the EV faster than the 240-volt home chargers…
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