The Lucid Air tops different EVs in EPA-rated vary, which means drivers can have a lot to spare after most journeys. Now they will use it to cost different EVs.
Lucid on Thursday introduced that it’s enabling this perform, dubbed RangeXchange by the automaker, through an over-the-air (OTA) software program replace and adapter. This can allow an Air to cost one other EV at as much as 9.6 kw, which Lucid estimates is sufficient to add 24 to 40 miles of vary per hour.
Lucid has mentioned from the beginning that the {hardware} for bidirectional charging is included within the Air—it simply must be enabled. The mandatory software program replace will arrive later this month for U.S. house owners for a few of this performance, the corporate confirmed in a press launch. However house owners will nonetheless want to purchase the adapter to cost different EVs.
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Within the launch, Lucid additionally hinted at different functions, together with vehicle-to-home (V2H) backup energy, vehicle-to-grid (V2G), and time-of-use (TOU) optimization for dwelling charging. However the firm did not give a timeline for the implementation of those options.
A number of different automakers have mentioned bidirectional charging, however the precise rollout has been fairly gradual. Though bidirectional charging was engineered into the Hyundai/Kia/Genesis E-GMP platform, the Kia EV9 is the one mannequin that’s set to permit vehicle-to-load (V2L), for functions that embrace charging different EVs, plus home-backup energy in addition to V2G serving to again up the grid, from the beginning.
Ford presents the tools to show its F-150 Lightning right into a home-backup energy supply, whereas Basic Motors has mentioned doing the identical by its new GM Vitality enterprise. In August the automaker introduced that may increase bidirectional charging to all of its Ultium EVs by 2026. Volkswagen mentioned again in 2021 that its EVs would have the tech in 2022, but it surely’s nonetheless not right here within the U.S.
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Tesla, one of many holdouts, surprisingly—maybe because it makes cash from Powerwall stationary battery packs—has introduced that its automobile lineup will get bidirectional charging functionality in 2025.
Lucid, in the meantime, lately introduced that it’s adopting Tesla’s North American Charging Commonplace (NACS) fast-charging connector. The automaker mentioned earlier this week that it’ll combine the NACS connector into new autos in 2025. Present Lucid autos with the present Mixed Charging Commonplace (CCS) connector will have the ability to entry the Tesla Supercharger community with adapters that very same yr.