{"id":76005,"date":"2024-08-22T09:04:44","date_gmt":"2024-08-22T13:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=76005"},"modified":"2024-08-22T09:04:44","modified_gmt":"2024-08-22T13:04:44","slug":"1144201_love-s-plots-fast-charging-for-future-road-trips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=76005","title":{"rendered":"Love&#8217;s plots fast-charging for future road trips"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong>Love&#8217;s added charging stations to two of its gas stations<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>All future Love&#8217;s Travel Stops will have EV chargers<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Love&#8217;s started adding chargers to its gas stations in 2017<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Love&#8217;s Travel Stops is continuing to add EV charging at its locations, in part with federal funding from the Biden administration&#8217;s infrastructure law.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Love&#8217;s announced the groundbreaking of two new &#8220;next-generation&#8221; charging sites <strong>in Ripley and Waterloo, New Yor<\/strong>k. Each will feature two dual-port DC fast chargers (for a total of four charging connectors) albeit with a minimum <strong>power rate of 160 kw<\/strong>. All new Love&#8217;s Travel Stops will also have space set aside for EV charging.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"static-marker-video-player-primis\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"image_wrapper first_wrapper\" readability=\"7\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" name=\"tccimg_100757144_m\" title=\"Electrify America charging stations at Love's Travel Stop\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAD\/ACwAAAAAAQABAAACADs=\" alt=\"Electrify America charging stations at Love's Travel Stop\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"first_image lazy\" data-width=\"1024\" data-height=\"576\" data-url=\"https:\/\/images.hgmsites.net\/lrg\/electrify-america-charging-stations-at-loves-travel-stop_100757144_l.jpg\" data-src-h=\"https:\/\/images.hgmsites.net\/hug\/electrify-america-charging-stations-at-loves-travel-stop_100757144_h.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/images.hgmsites.net\/lrg\/electrify-america-charging-stations-at-loves-travel-stop_100757144_l.jpg\" data-src-l=\"https:\/\/images.hgmsites.net\/lrg\/electrify-america-charging-stations-at-loves-travel-stop_100757144_l.jpg\" data-src-m=\"https:\/\/images.hgmsites.net\/med\/electrify-america-charging-stations-at-loves-travel-stop_100757144_m.jpg\" data-src-s=\"https:\/\/images.hgmsites.net\/sml\/electrify-america-charging-stations-at-loves-travel-stop_100757144_s.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Electrify America charging stations at Love&#8217;s Travel Stop<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Love&#8217;s has been installing EV chargers since 2017, and in 2020 partnered with Electrify America to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greencarreports.com\/news\/1129297_love-s-travel-stops-and-electrify-america-add-road-trip-charging-waypoints\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">add road-trip charging waypoints<\/a> at its locations. The company now claims to have <strong>more than 100 chargers at 28 stores in 11 states<\/strong>. That includes a mix of Level 2 AC chargers and DC fast chargers, but future construction will be exclusively <strong>fast chargers under protective canopies<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Love&#8217;s also confirmed that it had secured National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) funding to pay for some of its new charging stations. Created under the 2021 infrastructure law, the NEVI program <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greencarreports.com\/news\/1134092_infrastructure-bill-7-5b-toward-nationwide-network-of-500-000-ev-chargers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">provides $7.5 billion<\/a> for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greencarreports.com\/news\/1134440_biden-500-000-charger-national-network-for-evs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">national network of 500,000 charging stations<\/a> along 75,000 miles of highways, with said funding allocated state-by-state. Love&#8217;s claims to be among the top three firms in terms of funding received.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image_wrapper\" readability=\"7\"><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"tccimg_100939859_m\" title=\"Love's Travel Stop EV charging\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAD\/ACwAAAAAAQABAAACADs=\" alt=\"Love's Travel Stop EV charging\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" data-width=\"400\" data-height=\"300\" data-url=\"https:\/\/images.hgmsites.net\/med\/loves-travel-stop-ev-charging_100939859_m.webp\" data-src-h=\"https:\/\/images.hgmsites.net\/med\/loves-travel-stop-ev-charging_100939859_m.webp\" data-src=\"https:\/\/images.hgmsites.net\/med\/loves-travel-stop-ev-charging_100939859_m.webp\" data-src-l=\"https:\/\/images.hgmsites.net\/med\/loves-travel-stop-ev-charging_100939859_m.webp\" data-src-m=\"https:\/\/images.hgmsites.net\/med\/loves-travel-stop-ev-charging_100939859_m.webp\" data-src-s=\"https:\/\/images.hgmsites.net\/sml\/loves-travel-stop-ev-charging_100939859_s.webp\" class=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Love&#8217;s Travel Stop EV charging<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Groundbreaking for four NEVI-funded stations in Pennsylvania, and four more in Kentucky, will start this year, according to Love&#8217;s. Construction on additional NEVI-funded stations in Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Michigan, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and Washington is expected <strong>start in 2025<\/strong>. It&#8217;s an encouraging sign after the relatively <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greencarreports.com\/news\/1143375_why-federal-ev-charging-network-is-rolling-out-slowly\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">slow roll out of the federal charging network<\/a> thus far.<\/p>\n<p>Love&#8217;s points to factors like proximity to highways, onsite amenities, and 24\/7 staffing as plusses for co-locating EV charging with its travel centers. That&#8217;s also the case with an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greencarreports.com\/news\/1141643_pilot-gm-evgo-ev-fast-charging-network-first-stations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EV fast-charging network<\/a> at Pilot Travel Centers being developed jointly with General Motors. The first 17 locations opened in 2023, with about 200 planned by the end of 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Love&#8217;s added charging stations to two of its gas stations All future Love&#8217;s Travel Stops will have EV chargers Love&#8217;s started adding chargers to its gas stations in 2017 Love&#8217;s Travel Stops is continuing to add EV charging at its locations, in part with federal funding from the Biden administration&#8217;s infrastructure law. On Tuesday, Love&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76006,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-cars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/76006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}