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Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) Credits Explained
Electric vehicle (EV) charging stations are eligible for LCFS credits in California— here’s how you can participate in the carbon market to offset project costs while reducing emissions. Under... more
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Santa Monica Launches Zero-Emissions Delivery Zone
Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator (LACI) and the City of Santa Monica have launched and deployed a first-in-the-nation zero-emissions delivery zone (ZE Delivery Zone) within a one-square-mile voluntary ... more
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Choosing the Right Power for Your Public EV Charger
Are you deciding between a 50 kW, 100 kW, or 350 kW fast electric vehicle (EV) charger? Let’s help you make a market-informed decision for your site. EV adoption is growing rapidly. Over two hundred... more
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EV Charging Startup FreeWire Raises $50 Million, Will Help Improve Infrastructure
While Tesla already has its own, quite expansive Supercharging network of EV chargers, other automakers, including Ford, are left scrambling to provide the same benefit for their customers. It’s obv... more
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EV Charging Firm FreeWire Closes Funding Round From Riverstone
FreeWire Technologies Inc., an electric vehicle charging and power startup, has raised $50 million in a series C funding round. The round was led by energy-focused private equity firm Riverstone Holdi... more
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FreeWire Secures $50 Million In Series C Funding Round
FreeWire is getting ready for market expansion and hopes to sell thousands of battery-integrated fast chargers. FreeWire Technologies, specialized in battery-integrated ultra-fast chargers, announced ... more
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BP Pulse To Use FreeWire’s Battery-Powered Ultra-Fast Chargers
FreeWire Technologies and bp pulse (a British charging provider formerly known as bp Chargemaster) announced a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to deploy FreeWire’s Boost Chargers across the UK. Th... more
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FreeWire and BP unit ally for more UK fast chargers without grid upgrades
BP Pulse, the charging-infrastructure unit of oil giant BP, is working with FreeWire Technologies to get more of the company’s fast-charging stations installed in the United Kingdom. Under a $50... more
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Clean Power Propels Voting: FreeWire Electrifies Voting Centers this Election
Hollywood Bowl among nine voting centers in LA using Mobi Gen to power voting stations Voting centers throughout Los Angeles are being quietly powered by next-generation mobile battery units from Free... more
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Shell, BP, Chevron Offer EV Charging At Select Stations
Forward thinking oil companies are providing EV chargers next to their gas pumps While it goes against the business model of an oil company to promote a competing technology (electricity), the big pla... more
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Gathering Place receives electric vehicle charging stations
The Gathering Place will be the latest site in Tulsa to make use of electric vehicle charging stations for public use. In a partnership with Public Service Co. of Oklahoma and the Indian Nations Counc... more
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FreeWire’s boost charger becomes first battery-integrated EV charger to achieve UL certification, enables ultrafast charging without grid upgrades
FreeWire Technologies, Inc., San Leandro, California, has announced that Boost Charger™ is the first battery-integrated ultrafast charging system to achieve UL certification. Boost Charger is the fu... more
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How Convenient! Ultra Fast, Battery-Boosted EV Charging At ampm Stores
The field of battery-enabled ultra fast EV charging is about to blow up out of nowhere. In the latest development, the company FreeWire Technologies has inked a deal with the convenience store chain a... more
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EV Charging Live at ampm Store
An ampm store in Lodi, Calif., has installed electric vehicle (EV) charging from FreeWire Technologies. The installation of the Boost Charger in Lodi is the first of its kind, and FreeWire expects to ... more
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What’s the Difference Between EV Charging Levels?
Most drivers are familiar with different grades of gasoline, like regular, plus, or premium. What about electric vehicles? Are there different “grades”? Electric vehicle (EV) chargers are ... more
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Are You Prepared for the Next Power Outage?
With wildfire season around the corner in California, it’s not a question of if the power supply will turn off, but when. In 2019 Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) intentionally turned off pow... more
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FreeWire Offers Safe, Touch-Free EV Charging
According to a Kimberly-Clark study, fuel station handles are the filthiest object in America, with 71% of handles considered “highly contaminated.”1 Electric vehicle (EV) owners using pu... more
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Acterra Celebrates 30 Years of Business Environmental Awards Virtually on May 28
Nonprofit Recognizes Eight Bay Area Organizations for Sustainability Leadership PALO ALTO, May 19, 2020—This year marks the 30th anniversary of Acterra’s Business Environmental Awards (BEA), a pro... more
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Clean, Reliable Power Supporting Emergency Services in San Francisco
Every two seconds someone in the U.S. needs blood1. The Red Cross is a major provider of blood and emergency services, supplying about 40 percent of the nation’s blood. The San Francisco Disaster Ac... more
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FreeWire Shows How to Revive a Discharged Tesla Model 3 with a Dead 12 V Battery
Misery loves company, so what happens when the traction battery and the 12 V battery are both discharged? As electric cars become more and more popular, many users or potential buyers will wonder what... more
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East Bay energy tech startup raises $25M for ultra-fast electric car charging stations
Located in an old Chrysler and Dodge manufacturing building, energy tech company FreeWire Technologies has secured a $25 million funding round led by BP Ventures. The money will go toward commercializ... more
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FreeWire Technologies Raises $25M, Starts Shipping Battery-Boosted Fast Chargers
California startup finishes its “infrastructure-light” electric car chargers and moves into initial deployment. Startup FreeWire Technologies raised another $25 million to commercialize its electr... more
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FreeWire Technologies Raises $25 Million: ABB Joins The Board
FreeWire secured financing and is ready to launch flexible DC fast chargers with integrated batteries. FreeWire Technologies, provider of the flexible charging solutions, has announced the successful ... more
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Mobile EV Chargers
Charging Vans, Portable Chargers, and Temporary Chargers: Global Market Analysis and Forecasts The perpetual increase of the EV population and its expansion into new ownership cases and vehicle types ... more