The two companies, Electrify America and Stable, want to provide a robot for fast charging of autonomous e-vehicles.
The subsidiary of Volkswagen, Electrify America, together with California-based Stable, plans to launch a robot-assisted charging solution for autonomous e-vehicles. The basis for this was Volkswagen CarLa already developed.
Automatic fast charging station
The system was in the demonstration area in San Francisco will be disseminated in the future as part of the modern transport infrastructure. In this way, autonomous electric vehicles can be charged independently. As a customer you target fleets. The charging should be done with a 150kW DC device.
At this location in the US state California is also said to be the first commercial and automated charging station beginning 2020 be put into operation. The directors are Stable, who also work with Black & Veatch on the project.
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