Recently, General Motors announced that it is offering immediate availability to its Ultium Charging 360 ecological network of charging suppliers across North America, as well as its GMC Hummer EV pickup and Cadillac Lyriq electric vehicles, as well as the Chevrolet Bolt EV/EUV lineup with a DC charging option. Plug and charge service.
First, using the feature in North America requires owners to have an EVgo account, and then GM owners can use the plug-and-charge feature on the Ultium Charge 360 charging network.
Plug and Play was a concept that was first introduced to the ISO 15118 standard in 2014, but it's actually only recently that some carmakers have started to make it compatible.
With plug-and-charge, you only need to plug in the charging pile for your car, and then it can automatically recognize and start charging, thus eliminating the cumbersome links such as mobile phone login and scanning code, simple and practical, including Tesla at present Some of the companies have already started using them, but GM said it has become the first car company to introduce electric vehicles for the company's current and future vehicles.
The simplified concept of "plug and charge" is to seamlessly charge your EV and your designated credit card by plugging itself in, alleviating the need for multiple apps and charging network FOBs.
According to a report from the California Energy Commission (CEC) in February this year, charging providers "should immediately adopt" ISO 15118-compliant DC chargers and then roll out AC chargers in late 2022 or 2023, as they require longer transition time.
Aside from GM, several other automakers currently sell one or two EVs that support the feature, but GM appears to be the first to start offering the service across multiple charging networks, with plans to Originally announced in 2021, it has only been completed today.
This feature is initially required to be used with EVgo fast charging stations, but will be supported by other charging stations in the Ultium Charge 360 network in the future.
