Charged EVs | As the EV charging industry gradually adopts the NACS standard, Electrify America expands its implementation

As penance for its sins in the Dirty Diesel Debacle, the Volkswagen Group created EV charging subsidiary Electrify America in 2017. The charging network’s creators wisely arranged for its funding to be released in four 30-month cycles over 10 years, so that it would be able to invest in new technology as it emerged.

Now EA is into its Cycle 4 Investment Plan, and it has $412 million to invest before the end of 2026. One of the technical advances the company is dealing with is the gradual transition from the CCS standard to NACS, and it recently announced plans to expand its NACS pilots.

EA currently has NACS pilot stations in Connecticut and Florida. Later this month, NACS implementation will expand to five of its large-format sites in California—San Francisco, Santa Clara, South San Diego, Santa Monica and Santa Barbara. The company will convert some CCS connectors to NACS at each of these sites to support a broader range of EV drivers.

Later this summer, EA will convert four stations in California to all NACS connectors, and will convert some CCS connectors to NACS at five sites in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

Some chargers at these stations may briefly go offline while the CCS connectors are converted to NACS. All the changes will be reflected on EA’s Network Updates page and the Electrify America app.

Source: Electrify America