- Automotive corporations are migrating from CCS to Tesla’s charging customary, NACs, with a view to get Supercharger entry.
- Many charging stations nonetheless solely assist CCS, although.
- One report suggests Lucid will supply each ports in the course of the transition interval, relatively than counting on adapters.
Lucid has discovered a solution to repair all of life’s charging issues: simply put two cost ports within the automotive.
Its upcoming three-row Lucid Gravity electrical SUV will do precisely that, in keeping with an X person, BLKMDL3, who posted pictures from a non-public occasion held on the Lucid Studio in Torrance, California. The pictures confirmed Lucid’s camouflaged Gravity EV with what look like two charging ports. Lucid’s one-of-a-kind answer, assuming it makes it to manufacturing, would permit drivers to cost at nearly any charging station, no matter customary or cable size, and juice up for the drive forward.
This welcome design is not simply meant to unravel for placement issues. Based on the put up, the 2 cost ports will not simply be to accommodate various cable lengths at totally different charging networks. The ports will truly be to accommodate totally different charging requirements altogether.
The put up claims that Lucid revealed on the occasion that the Gravity can have one CCS port and one NACS port, making it appropriate with just about each charging community on the market—no adapter wanted.
Lucid did not specify which port would home which charger, nevertheless. Although it appears apparent to imagine that the driver-side rear port can be the NACS inlet. That location would match Tesla’s current placement and maximize compatibility with current V3 dispensers with out Gravity house owners needing to double park.
InsideEVs reached out to Lucid to substantiate if this tech would make it right into a manufacturing car, however didn’t obtain a response on the time of writing.
This does not clear up each charging drawback, nevertheless, because it’s price calling out that each ports being within the driver’s aspect implies that curbside charging is a no-go, at the very least for any nation the place automobiles drive on the best aspect of the highway.
Rival automaker Rivian beforehand introduced that it might launch its upcoming R2 SUV with a single cost port on the passenger aspect, particularly for European clients who would use curbside charging. Nonetheless, the automaker backpedaled just lately and as a substitute moved the cost port to the rear of the R2’s driver aspect for a cause that it didn’t specify. We assume it is for Supercharger compatibility, since it is a NACS port.Â
The $80,000 Lucid Gravity is supposed to enrich the automaker’s sedan, the Lucid Air, which has been round since 2021. Based on Lucid, this seven-seat SUV will supply a driving expertise that rivals a Lamborghini Urus and be out there to consumers later this yr. It’s going to additionally boast a spread of greater than 440 miles, which implies that these cost ports—whereas extraordinarily handy—is likely to be used at residence greater than on the highway.
Lucid CEO Peter Rawlinson just lately mentioned in an interview that the automaker has “probably the most superior expertise on the planet” at its disposal, enabling it to construct a number of the best EVs. That being mentioned, this answer provides value and complexity to its autos and Lucid remains to be shedding cash with each car it sells, requiring extra infusions of money, the automaker has some critical monetary points to work out with a view to keep afloat. Let’s hope the Gravity fixes that.
