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New bp pulse "Gigahub" about ready to pop north of Boston Logan airport...

⚡⚡2 x Alpitronic Hyperchargers up to 400kW

⚡8 x Tritium dispensers up to 150kW

🚘 20 charging stalls in total

⚠️ Short walk to Starbucks, if you don't mind navigating commercial rental vehicle traffic and potholes.

Texas Time! NEVI Program Update 6 - Nov. 2024 YouTube video by Plug and Play EV

Closing out November with another #NEVI update:

⚡️37 stations open, 16 new this month

📍10 states with open stations (HI/TX/UT/OH/KY/PA/NY/VT/RI/ME)

🔧15 sites w/ Delta EVSE | 8 Signet | 3= Tesla/CPP/ABB

🚧 121 days avg. turnaround (ground broken to cars charging)

Full summary: youtu.be/HkVVMUp1E9E

First local public charging spot (Greater Boston) to receive a J3400/NACS connector where a CHAdeMO would previously be specced.

Just the beginning of what will be a drawn out transition to a single connector type. Net positive but expect to see CCS1 handles around well into the next decade.

Interesting match up between the current North American IONIQ siblings.

Neither the ride height nor the cargo capacity of the 6 turned out to be a significantly restricting factor compared to our IONIQ 5.

Still prefer a hatch overall, but the 6 is the better driving experience.

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Honda joins Toyota in hiking pay after UAW agreements with Detroit Three The increases demonstrate the domino effect on the labor market and efforts by the transplants to avoid unionization of their plants, experts say.

Another *remarkable* coincidence, following the same from Toyota.

Starting in January 2024, production workers at Honda's U.S. auto plants will receive an 11% wage increase. That's the exact percentage UAW workers just won at the Detroit 2.5.

What Is a Plug-In Hybrid? How Does It Work? It’s a regular hybrid—and it's also an electric car with no more than 60 miles of range. Not surprisingly, that can confuse a lot of car shoppers.

I seem to be writing a lot of EV explainers, which suggests a much larger group of car shoppers are now searching online for info on cars that plug in.

Here's my take on perhaps the MOST misunderstood type of #EV: the plug-in hybrid.

Leveling up on Tesla's Magic Dock, where our previous paltry 42kW in EGMP models is now up to an almost acceptable 97kW ⚡⚡

Before everything turns a hazy shade of winter, some of our better autumnal EV experiences from earlier this month.

#autumn #fallfoliage #upstateNY