EV-optimized Airstream, range-boosting Lightship, utility-funded EV charging: At the moment’s Automotive Information

Airstream goes small with an EV-optimized journey trailer for SXSW. A mammoth RV journey trailer claims to take care of the 300-mile vary of an electrical tow car. And will utility ratepayers foot the price of a charging community? This and extra, right here at Inexperienced Automotive Stories.

A U.S. startup referred to as Lightship needs to turn out to be the Tesla of RV makers with the battery-powered, solar-supplemented, propulsion-equipped L1, a 27-foot journey trailer that, the corporate claims, will protect the towing EV’s vary.

Airstream and the design agency that’s an extension of Porsche have labored collectively to give you the primary “garageable” Airstream journey trailer within the firm’s 90-year historical past. The small-footprint idea can also be the primary Airstream optimized for towing with EVs.

And one of many nation’s largest utilities, in Minnesota, needs to construct an enormous EV charging community funded partly by ratepayers. The proposal is controversial from the beginning, as it will increase utility charges throughout the board, whether or not prospects personal EVs or not.

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