Lucid Air’s dwelling charger provides as much as 80 miles per hour

Lucid is lastly prepared to begin promoting a house charger for its Air electrical sedan. The automaker on Tuesday introduced the launch of its Lucid Related Residence Charging Station with a $1,200 price ticket.

First talked about by 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 per hour of charging. Lucid additionally claims its design and engineering departments labored to make the wall-mounted unit as small as attainable.

A 24-foot cable is included, together with WiFi connectivity that may enable the unit to obtain over-the-air (OTA) software program updates. Lucid mentioned the {hardware} for bidirectional charging is included as nicely, and the automaker has mentioned all alongside that the Air was constructed with that functionality in thoughts.

Bidirectional charging has a whole lot of potential to assist again up homes throughout blackouts. However to take advantage of it we’d like utilities to take part. Within the meantime, different automakers apart from Lucid are laying the groundwork by equipping their very own automobiles for bidirectional charging.

Nissan lately accredited the primary bidirectional charger for the Leaf, which had the required {hardware} built-in already. And Volvo notes that it selected a big battery for the EX90 partly to stability a protracted vary with power-bank functionality.

Volkswagen can 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 the F-150 Lightning pickup as an emergency backup energy supply for properties.

Lucid mentioned its dwelling charger shall be solely be obtainable in restricted portions till 2023. It is certainly one of a handful of equipment launching for the Air, alongside a roof cargo capsule ($2,000), cross bars ($500) and all-weather flooring mats ($250).