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…