Mercedes-Benz is launching its high-power charging hub community within the fourth quarter of 2023 with speeds as excessive as 400kW — greater than any EV in the marketplace can deal with, the corporate announced. The stations will launch in Atlanta, Georgia (the corporate’s US residence base), Chengdu, China and Mannheim, Germany. The automaker plans to construct 400 hub areas with 2,000 chargers within the US, and a couple of,000 world wide by the tip of 2024.
Earlier this yr, Mercedes-Benz introduced plans to team with ChargePoint to construct the “Mercedes-Benz Excessive-Energy Charging Community.” The primary installations have been to incorporate each CCS and Tesla’s NACS (North American Charging Normal) connectors and be open to non-Mercedes EVs.
Now, the corporate has stated that “relying on area, the charging stations provide a charging fee of presently as much as 400kW, supplied through the respective commonplace charging programs CCS1 (North America), CCS2 [Europe], NACS [Tesla] and GB/T [China].” It promised that every automobile may be charged at its most energy score through clever charging administration, to maintain wait occasions to a minimal. Hubs shall be situated at “fundamental site visitors areas and choose Mercedes-Benz dealerships,” the corporate added.
Final month, Mercedes stated it will undertake NACS for its North American EVs. Previous to that, it should give owners access to the Tesla Supercharger community by way of a CCS-to-NACS adapter arriving in 2024 (Tesla presently has round 1,847 Supercharger stations within the US with 20,040 Supercharger ports — almost two-thirds of all DC Quick EV charging ports).
Mercedes-Benz’s cope with Tesla is unbiased of its personal branded charging community. Final month, the corporate introduced plans to workforce up with six different automakers together with BMW, GM, Honda, Hyundai, Kia and Stellantis to create a community of 30,000 new EV fast-charging stations throughout North America beginning in summer time 2024. These may even provide each CCS and NACS connectors.
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