2023-07-12 06:26:20
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The US government’s program to promote the charging infrastructure in the country might be overtaken by Tesla on the right: when it was announced, it seemed clear that CCS would also prevail over the supercharger system in North America, because charging stations according to the standard were a prerequisite for the Billions in funding, and initially Tesla also got involved with adapters. Recently, however, more and more electric car manufacturers have announced that they will instead switch to the supercharger specifications in North America. In Hawaii, on the other hand, the first columns for the US program have now been ordered – and their manufacturer is in favor of Tesla cables also being required in Texas.
Hawaii uses US charging subsidy first
Tritium DCFC, an Australian company with a factory in the United States and a listing on the Nasdaq, announced on Tuesday that all charging stations for the first round of financing of the National Electric Vehicle (NEVI) program will be supplied to Hawaii. This means that the company was probably the first manufacturer to secure an order under the new funding. It comprises eight systems, each consisting of four charging stations with an output of 150 kilowatts (see photo above) and two rectifier units.
Apparently tailored to government support, Tritium offers these packages under the name NEVI. Hawaii orders them according to the notification through his nonprofit Sustainability Partners and will receive $2.6 million from the US Department of Transportation for the purchase. That’s just a tiny fraction of the total budget of $615 million for fiscal 2022 and $5 billion over five years to result in 500,000 new highway charging stations.
Tesla might also benefit from this and was among the companies listed with concrete commitments at the NEVI presentation by the US government this February. At that time, Tesla wanted to make at least 3,500 DC charging stations available “for all electric cars” by 2024, which was understood as the introduction of superchargers with built-in CCS adapters. So far there are nine Tesla locations with this “magic dock” in the state of New York and two in California. And it might stay that way, because even in the NEVI program, the proposed Tesla standard is gaining supporters.
Tritium for Tesla cables in Texas
These include tritium, which is now supposed to supply the charging stations for Hawaii. The US states decide for themselves in detail what equipment they require for the subsidized pillars. And since the vast majority of electric car manufacturers active in the USA have announced since the end of May that they will be offering supercharger adapters from 2024 and installing suitable charging sockets ex works from 2025, some of the states are considering prescribing cables for the Tesla format in addition to CCS .
One is Texas, where the Department of Transportation has already submitted an official proposal for comment. Several major charging station manufacturers rejected it as premature, although most of them have already announced additional supercharger cables on their products. Tesla has proposed its system as the North American Charging Standard (NACS), but standardization with independent bodies is still pending. But Tritium sided with the Texas proposal the day before the Hawaii announcement. From the end of 2023 or beginning of 2024, its NEVI columns should have optional cables with the Tesla connector.
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