{"id":34625,"date":"2022-10-26T12:03:58","date_gmt":"2022-10-26T16:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=34625"},"modified":"2022-10-26T12:03:58","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T16:03:58","slug":"1137606_lucid-air-s-home-charger-adds-up-to-80-miles-per-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=34625","title":{"rendered":"Lucid Air’s home charger adds up to 80 miles per hour"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lucid is finally ready to start selling a home charger for its Air electric sedan. The automaker on Tuesday announced the launch of its Lucid Connected Home Charging Station with a $1,200 price tag.<\/p>\n

First mentioned by Lucid more than two years ago<\/a>, the home charger takes advantage of the Air’s 19.2-kw onboard charger to deliver up to 80 miles of range per hour of charging. Lucid also claims its design and engineering departments worked to make the wall-mounted unit as small as possible.<\/p>\n

\"2022<\/p>\n

2022 Lucid Air Grand Touring Performance<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

A 24-foot cable is included, along with Wi-Fi connectivity that will allow the unit to receive over-the-air (OTA) software updates. Lucid said the hardware for bidirectional charging is included as well, and the automaker has said all along that the Air<\/a> was built with that capability in mind.<\/p>\n

Bidirectional charging has a lot of potential to help back up houses during blackouts. But to make the most of it we need utilities to participate<\/a>. In the meantime, other automakers besides Lucid are laying the groundwork by equipping their own cars for bidirectional charging.<\/p>\n

\"2022<\/p>\n

2022 Lucid Air Grand Touring Performance<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Nissan recently approved the first bidirectional charger for the Leaf<\/a>, which had the necessary hardware built-in already. Volvo notes that it chose a large battery for the EX90<\/a> partly to balance a long range with power-bank capability.<\/p>\n

Volkswagen is also in the process of adding the capability to its mass-market MEB EVs<\/a>, including the ID.4 crossover. It joins Hyundai, which built the capability into its E-GMP platform, and Ford, which is marketing the F-150 Lightning pickup as an emergency backup power source for homes.<\/p>\n

Lucid said its home charger will be only be available in limited quantities until 2023. It’s one of a handful of accessories launching for the Air, alongside a roof cargo capsule ($2,000), roof rail cross bars ($500) and all-weather floor mats ($250).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lucid is finally ready to start selling a home charger for its Air electric sedan. The automaker on Tuesday announced the launch of its Lucid Connected Home Charging Station with a $1,200 price tag. First mentioned by Lucid more than two years ago, the home charger takes advantage of the Air’s 19.2-kw onboard charger to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34626,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-cars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}