From Torque News.
Less than 24 hours ago Lucid CEO Peter Rawlinson spoke to the WSJ and made a breaking announcement on when his company will join Tesla in terms of adopting to the Tesla-led NACS charging standard.
While the rest of the EV industry is adopting NACS, Lucid Motors and CEO Peter Rawlinson are refusing to switch until Tesla enables 1000V DC charging at Superchargers.Why doesn’t Lucid poll their customers to see what they prefer instead of making the decision for them?
I think Lucid Lucid’s BIG mistake is thinking you can go with a totally different architecture from everyone else and just assume someone will cover the charging infrastructure for you. Now they’re stuck with CCS1 which sucks and even if they got NACS they’d only get 50kw.
“Really, what is the difference between those two (NACS and CCS)? We’re talking about a plastic plug here. That’s the difference. It’s a plastic plug with some copper in it. What actually supports that plastic plug in terms of the infrastructure and what it’s connected to is very relevant to the US consumer and a very important topic for the growth of the EV in terms of its value to the American people.
“I think it’s very important that when we look at US taxpayers’ money here, and how it is put to best effect, that it should be placed into a charging infrastructure that is future proof. And that means an ultra-high voltage charging standard. A thousand volts. That is the future for EVs. And really, it doesn’t really matter whether that plug, the way that high voltage enters the car, whether it’s through an NACS or CCS plug — that’s almost beside the point here — what’s really important is that we go for this efficient, high-voltage, high-power charging,” Rawlinson said.
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This is Armen Hareyan from Torque News. Please follow us at https://twitter.com/torquenewsauto on Twitter and https://www.torquenews.com/ for daily automotive news.
Reference
WSJ
Jeff https://twitter.com/JeffTutorials/status/1671166335387328516
Torque News Lucid https://www.torquenews.com/lucid-motors
Teslarati https://www.teslarati.com/lucid-ceo-weighs-in-on-tesla-nacs-vs-ccs-debate/
