{"id":133334,"date":"2021-12-30T19:25:19","date_gmt":"2021-12-31T03:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/new-ev-charging-station-quickly-powers-four-vehicles-at-once"},"modified":"2021-12-30T19:25:19","modified_gmt":"2021-12-31T03:25:19","slug":"new-ev-charging-station-quickly-powers-four-vehicles-at-once","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/new-ev-charging-station-quickly-powers-four-vehicles-at-once","title":{"rendered":"New EV charging station quickly powers four vehicles at once"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cz-FGonzNMs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Swiss tech company ABB has <a href=\"https:\/\/new.abb.com\/news\/detail\/82941\/abb-launches-the-worlds-fastest-electric-car-charger\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">unveiled<\/a> a new EV charging station that can rapidly power four electric vehicles at once \u2014 which could help make annoying wait times at stations a thing of the past.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The challenge:<\/strong> It typically takes less than five minutes to fill up a car\u2019s tank at a gas station, and gas stations are everywhere in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Depending on an EV\u2019s battery and the type of EV charging station, it can take anywhere from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/08\/24\/cnbc-road-test-the-us-ev-charging-network-isnt-ready-for-your-family-road-trip-let-alone-the-expected-wave-of-new-cars.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">45 minutes<\/a> to several hours to fully charge the car, and because charging stations are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/22463219\/electric-vehicles-charging-station-infrastructure\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">far less common<\/a> than gas stations, drivers regularly have to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/06\/22\/business\/energy-environment\/electric-cars-charging.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wait for ports<\/a> to open up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swiss tech company ABB has unveiled a new EV charging station that can rapidly power four electric vehicles at once \u2014 which could help make annoying wait times at stations a thing of the past. The challenge: It typically takes less than five minutes to fill up a car\u2019s tank at a gas station, and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}