The state of electric vehicle charging in North America is shaping up like the smartphone charging wars — but focused on much more expensive hardware. Meanwhile, Europe already dealt with its standards issue by settling on CCS2. North America can become a great and convenient place to own an electric vehicle, but how long will that take? You can find out by reading all the news about electric vehicle charging right here, so come back and plug in often.
Andrew J. It was the latest move by President Donald Trump to reverse Biden-era EV policies — even as those policies have personally enriched his top ally, Elon Musk. Kia also says owners can buy the adapter from dealers. If you can find them, that is. For now, locations with the newly-designed stalls will support kW charging for Cybertrucks. Electrek notes that Elon Musk once suggested V3 would be capable of more than kW. Lucid started delivering the Gravity SUV to customers late last year but waited until now to reveal an interesting quirk about the new luxury EV that it says can help make charging better than ever before.
That architecture allows Gravity owners to add up to miles of range after just 12 minutes of charging — provided you have access to the right charger. The new cable can be retrofitted on commercial and fleet charging stations both AC and DC models made by the company. The adapters are available to purchase through dealerships. And EV owners will get to giddily watch as the number of accessible public EV chargers suddenly grows by the thousands.
By last count, Tesla had 20, stalls in the US and Canada. The free adapter is available to those who purchased or leased their Hyundai EVs on or before January 31st, You can request the free adapter through the My Hyundai owner portal. But more importantly, it shows how President Joe Biden is intent on doling out as much money for EV projects as he can before leaving office. Trump has promised to reverse or cancel much of the spending by Biden on EVs once he assumes office.
But none of those EVs need you to take a confusing extra step to make the adapter work. With that, GM has met a deadline it set in September to have the bulk of its planned 2, DC fast-charging stalls set up by the end of this year. GM says the new station, which is near Interstate in Riverside County, serves five kW fast chargers for as many as 10 EVs simultaneously. The fragmented and frustrating nature of our current EV charging landscape has been widely — and correctly — cited as one of the most significant barriers to EV adoption.
