Lucid Air’s home charger adds up to 80 miles per hour

Lucid is in spite of everything able to begin promoting a house charger for its Air electrical sedan. The automaker on Tuesday introduced the release of its Lucid Hooked up House Charging Station with a $1,200 price ticket.

First discussed by way of Lucid greater than two years in the past, the house charger takes benefit of the Air’s 19.2-kw onboard charger to ship as much as 80 miles of vary in keeping with hour of charging. Lucid additionally claims its design and engineering departments labored to make the wall-mounted unit as small as conceivable.

A 24-foot cable is incorporated, along side Wi-Fi connectivity that can permit the unit to obtain over-the-air (OTA) instrument updates. Lucid mentioned the {hardware} for bidirectional charging is incorporated as neatly, and the automaker has mentioned all alongside that the Air used to be constructed with that capacity in thoughts.

Bidirectional charging has numerous doable to assist again up homes all over blackouts. However to benefit from it we’d like utilities to take part. Within the period in-between, different automakers but even so Lucid are laying the groundwork by way of equipping their very own automobiles for bidirectional charging.

Nissan just lately licensed the primary bidirectional charger for the Leaf, which had the vital {hardware} integrated already. Volvo notes that it selected a big battery for the EX90 partially to stability a protracted vary with power-bank capacity.

Volkswagen could also be within the technique of including the aptitude to its mass-market MEB EVs, together with the ID.4 crossover. It joins Hyundai, which constructed the aptitude into its E-GMP platform, and Ford, which is advertising and marketing the F-150 Lightning pickup as an emergency backup chronic supply for properties.

Lucid mentioned its house charger might be handiest be to be had in restricted amounts till 2023. It is considered one of a handful of equipment launching for the Air, along a roof shipment pill ($2,000), roof rail pass bars ($500) and all-weather ground mats ($250).