cwerdna
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I just checked my "favorite" EA site and the free candy is over. No more complimentary session on the display. I went to check the other site that was free Friday and it was over, as well.
Celebrating Earth Day with Free Charging Sessions from Electrify America
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Reston, VA (April 20, 2021) -- On Earth Day, Thursday April 22, electric vehicle owners will get free charging sessions at all Electrify America ultra-fast charging stations.
Electric vehicle drivers can locate a charging station by visiting the Electrify America website.
The company will not charge EV drivers for sessions starting at 12:00 a.m. EDT April 22 on through to 3:00 a.m. EDT April 23.
WetEV said:3490 Stockton Hill Rd
Kingman, AZ 86409
salyavin said:https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/free-ev-charging-earth-day-electrify-america/
free charging today
cwerdna said:^^^
Yes. I posted about this earlier in the thread...
Maybe we should have a separate thread like https://www.mychevybolt.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=9545 to call out when EA has announced or unannounced free juice.
cwerdna said:Got my free juice today. Went for a drive to the beach then came back (about 70 miles of driving). Picked up 36 kWh of free juice.
Bolt/Taycan driver pinged me that he was there getting his free candy when I was driving, so our stays overlapped a bit. An e-tron BEV showed up for his free juice as someone told him. I saw his car go as high as 147 kW, but mostly was at 146 kW when I was looking. This is on 150 kW chargers.
This might be a first for all 3 DC FCs there to be in use. EA checked in yesterday saying the CHAdeMO plug is down.
Amazingly, I've been seeing these EA DC FCs in use in prior days: once an i3, later an e-tron BEV and at another site, a Volt on J1772. I have no idea why they went there given that there are working J1772s and now repaired DC FCs both at 19 cents/kWh just a few miles away. EA here is 31 cents/kWh for Pass+ and 43 cents/kWh for Pass.
Love's Travel #286 (Quartzsite, AZ) at 760 S Quartzsite Blvd, Quartzsite, AZ 85346 is now live.
DougWantsALeaf said:Any chance EA came to understand that a significant chunk of their base is Leafs and Teslas with adapters?
Electrify America announces $200M additional investment for ZEV infrastructure and education in California
. . . Green City Investment: - $25 Million in Long Beach-Wilmington. One key part of the California plan is the $25 million investment in a Green City program in the Long Beach-Wilmington community, home to the nation’s busiest port complex and served by a fleet of more than 18,000 drayage trucks.
Building on Electrify America’s first successful Green City program in Sacramento, the company will work with Long Beach and Los Angeles city officials and fleet operators to implement projects focused on charging transit and heavy-duty electric vehicles, showcasing ultra-fast charging technology, energy storage and renewables and energy management for these two emerging use cases.
Efforts will focus on tackling medium- and heavy-duty emissions in a predominantly disadvantaged and low-income community, which is classified as an extreme non-attainment area under the Clean Air Act (64% of Long Beach/Wilmington community is classified as low-income and disadvantaged by the California Air Resources Board. . . .)
Highlights of California’s Third ZEV Investment Plan. The central focus of electric vehicle charging infrastructure investment will focus on building strategically-placed charging stations in many of Electrify America’s existing metro areas, where electric vehicle (EV) drivers are expected to charge most often. DC Fast Charging stations will be placed in retail locations, but will also consider the needs of adjacent multi-unit dwellings, where Level 2 (L2) residential charging deployment is oftentimes challenging. In addition to existing metro investments, Electrify America will invest in five new metro areas:
Bakersfield
Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura
Santa Maria-Santa Barbara
Stockton
Visalia
Existing metro area investments to be expanded are:
Fresno
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim
Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario
San Diego-Carlsbad
San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward
San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara
Additional Investment Plan focus areas include:
Highways & Regional Routes: The new investment will expand highway network DC Fast Charging stations, featuring charging power up to 350 kilowatts for capable vehicles, adding density along major routes and investing in regionally significant routes to new destinations including Joshua Tree National Park.
Transit and Medium-Duty/Heavy-Duty Fleet Charging: Both the transit and medium/heavy-duty sectors are poised for significant growth over the coming decade. Electrify America is investing in infrastructure to support these emerging, but transformational, technologies. . . .
Rural Investments: As part of the plan, the company will build off its more than $81 million investment to date in rural parts of the state, including the Central Valley, where Electrify America has built more stations to date than any other charging provider.
Renewable Generation: Consistent with California’s broader air quality goals, Electrify America will invest in renewable generation for select stations as site-level energy management tools to help to reduce station operating costs and reduce the carbon consumption for EV recharging. . . .
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