Electric vehicle advocate, posting updates on life with an EV and development of the surrounding infrastructure. Primarily driving a 2020 Chevy Bolt EV Premier, formerly a 2017 Bolt Premier, with a Chevy Volt PHEV and Tesla Model 3 LR in the wider family.
From Plug and Play EV. We’ve come a long way since the days of sitting on a 25kW Bosch unit at the back of some Chevy dealership, slowly watching the 5% bars tick up and hoping the next location is more powerful/convenient/has more than one stall. But has DC fast-charging hardware expanded where it’s needed?…
From Plug and Play EV. DC fast-charging deployments continue to set records, with almost 16,000 distinct locations across the US and Canada for EV drivers to choose from as we approach mid-2026. But how many of those would you actually want to charge with? Listings show that almost one-quarter of those locations are at auto…
From Plug and Play EV. The Advanced Clean Transportation (ACT) Expo wrapped up in Las Vegas last week, and electric fleets seem closer than ever. From the Tesla Semi starting series production and some fleet operators posting orders in the hundreds, to a bevy of EV infrastructure companies developing freight charging corridors from their SoCal…
From Plug and Play EV. Is it faster charging that will make the difference? Or level 2 in every city space, workplace, and residential parking lot? Will Chinese electric vehicles finally break into the US via Canada and/or Mexico to dominate the market? Or can US automakers rise to the challenge of navigating a policy…
From Plug and Play EV. Another new Mercedes-Benz High Power Charging (MB-HPC) site is live in Massachusetts, making it 14 of 15 for the network’s New England expansion. Unfortunately, this one has hit some growing pains… Join us for a quick charge and look around the MB-HPC location in Braintree, MA, which is a welcome…
From Plug and Play EV. Join us for a quick (long) charge session in the 2017 Bolt EV, looking at bp pulse spring savings, the role of Gigahubs in bp’s DCFC mix, and the limitations of this otherwise well-situated fast-charging hub near Boston’s Logan Airport. PlugShare URL – https://www.plugshare.com/location/711816 bp pulse Network Stats – https://dcfctracker.com/?networks=BP_PULSE
From Plug and Play EV. Seven new DCFC sites in a week as the seasons change is just the tip of the iceberg for North America’s largest retailer… Join Eric, Walter, Steve, and returning special guest Landon West, aka The Arkansas eTraveler, to cover every aspect of Walmart EV Charging’s spring acceleration. The stream goes…
From Plug and Play EV. The latest EV infrastructure news and developments, pulled from The Weekly 1.21 email (editions 64 and 65) – http://EVI.plugnplayev.com/subscribe/ Chapters: 0:00 – Start 0:10 – bp pulse Boston Gigahub 1:00 – Alpitronic Tops (non-Supercharger) DCFC Deployment 4:40 – CPO Spotlight: Walmart EV Charging 6:00 – DCFC Additions in Recent Weeks…
From Plug and Play EV. The latest EV infrastructure news and developments, pulled from The Weekly 1.21 email (editions 64 and 65) – http://EVI.plugnplayev.com/subscribe/ Watch for Landon/@TheArkansaseTraveler joining Eric, Walter, and Steve for Coast-to-Coast EVs 58 on Wed. 15th April, 2026, live at 5PM (Pacific) / 8PM (Eastern) to talk Walmart, Alpitronic, ABB, and everything…
From Plug and Play EV. Why aren’t we further along with destination charging in North America? Filling your battery when and where the EV is parked is usually cited as the main advantage of electric vehicles. It’s typically cheaper, more convenient, and reputedly better for battery longevity. But that advantage is usually raised in terms…
From Plug and Play EV. Why aren’t we further along with destination charging in North America? Filling your battery when and where the EV is parked is usually cited as the main advantage of electric vehicles. It’s typically cheaper, more convenient, and reputedly better for battery longevity. But that advantage is usually raised in terms…
From Plug and Play EV. Get EV infrastructure updates every Sunday: EVI.plugnplayev.com/subscribe/ The Weekly 1.21⚡ is Plug & Play EV in newsletter form, offering updates on charging infrastructure across the US and Canada. It hits inboxes every Sunday, so I’m exploring whether a video recap of that email with a few more videos and visuals…
From Plug and Play EV. Join Eric, Walter, and Steve to unpack a new era of competition in US/Canada DC fast charging. Will it usher in much-needed price competition and customer choice, or will a few big players continue to dominate due to deep pockets and coverage that spans the continent? Check in with us…
From Plug and Play EV. In the market for a new home EV charger? This one brings a whole lot of features, including dual overheat sensors, without breaking the bank. Our quick unboxing and home test of the IYILO 40-48A home charger gives you an overview of this compelling new EVSE offering. Full list of…
From Plug and Play EV. Join Eric, Walter, and Steve for a free-for-all Q&A session on electric vehicles and infrastructure. We threw out the usual prepared topics and left ourselves in the hands of the Coast-to-Coasts EV’s community to ask questions, pose ideas, and possibly even stoke a heated debate or two… Chapters: 0:00 –…
From Plug and Play EV. Join Eric, Walter, and Steve for a free-for-all Q&A session on electric vehicles and infrastructure. We’ll throw out all of the usual prepared topics and leave ourselves in the hands of the Coast-to-Coasts EVs community to ask questions, pose ideas, and possibly even stoke a heated debate or two… What’s…
From Plug and Play EV. Come for a quick tour of three new DC fast charging options on either side of the border between Maine and New Hampshire. Steve is joined by Porsche Taycan owner Dan to test the activation processes, prices, power sharing, and all-around appeal of the following DCFC locations from relatively new…
From Plug and Play EV. With new charging networks such as IONNA, Mercedes-Benz HPC, Walmart, and many others competing for the spots behind Tesla, established charging providers must now look over their shoulders. What does the future hold for the likes of Electrify America, EVgo, and ChargePoint as the next wave of charging operators accelerates…
From Plug and Play EV. A new report from the EV data boffins at Paren confirms what we all watched unfold over the last 12 months: 2025 was a record-setting year for DC fast charging in the United States. A 30% increase in DCFC ports tells part of the story, but there’s so much to…
From Plug and Play EV. Wrap up warm and join Eric, Walter, and Steve to explore the multi-faceted "EV Winter" that we’re hearing so much about as January unfolds. From the old tropes that electric vehicles won’t work in cold weather to the analogy that media outlets are adopting to describe slower EV sales in…
From Plug and Play EV. Happy New Year! Join Eric, Walter, and Steve, for the first Coast-to-Coast EVs live stream of 2026 and a discussion around what we expect to see from electric vehicles and charging infrastructure over the next 12 months. Catch us live at 5PM (Pacific) / 8PM (Eastern) on Wednesday 7th January,…
From Plug and Play EV. Squeezing in the fourth video of our Thanksgiving week travel in the IONIQ 5 before Christmas, taking the opportunity to look at how radically the DCFC options in Pennsylvania have changed since our early 2018-2022 trips in the Chevy Bolt EV. There will be one more video about the return…
From Plug and Play EV. Join Eric, Walter, and Steve to celebrate the 50th edition of Coast-to-Coast EVs! We briefly look back over our years of fortnightly fast charges and a wild 12 months for electric vehicles and infrastructure in 2025, unpacking the charging operators with the most DCFC locations across the US and Canada.…
From Plug and Play EV. The third edition in our quick-hit Thanksgiving 2025 EV travelog takes us from Northeast to Southwest Pennsylvania, finding abundant NEVI sites along the way. These federally funded DCFC locations have transformed non-Tesla EV travel in the state over the last 12-18 months and there’s much more to come, with 25…
From Plug and Play EV. Hitting the road on the busiest travel day of the year, join our veteran EV road tripper 2022 Hyundai IONIQ 5 as we battle Greater Boston traffic to hit the Promised Land of the Poconos, where we can drive above 20mph. A typically full Electrify America location is backed up…
From Plug and Play EV. Join us for the first in a series of quick hit videos, chronicling our charging experiences on the 1,000+ mile round trip from Boston, MA to southwest Pennsylvania and back. This pre-game edition explains why we’re fast charging before the trip and how EVgo won a chunk of our charging…
From Plug and Play EV. Join Eric, Walter, Steve, and returning guest Jacob (AP1 – https://www.youtube.com/@ArtiePenguin1/) gather, after a week of frenetic NEVI activity and DCFC activations across the US, to join the live chat in discussing EV infrastructure around the country. Many wrote off the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) program, even before a…