--- title: "Tesla Competitor Claims Its Car Will Be the “Fastest Charging” EV Ever" description: "Electric car company Lucid Motors just announced that its Lucid Air luxury sedan \"will be the fastest charging electric vehicle ever offered.\"" date: "2020-08-19" modified: "2020-08-19" authors: - name: "Victor Tangermann" job_title: "Senior Editor" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/victor" url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/tesla-competitor-fastest-charging-ever" categories: - "Advanced Transport" - "Tesla" tags: - "electric vehicles" - "lucid air" - "lucid motors" - "supercharger" - "tesla" - "the digest" --- # Tesla Competitor Claims Its Car Will Be the “Fastest Charging” EV Ever ![Electric car company Lucid Motors just announced that its Lucid Air luxury sedan "will be the fastest charging electric vehicle ever offered."]() *\Image: Lucid Motors\* ## The Fastest Charger Electric car company Lucid Motors [claims that]() that its Lucid Air luxury sedan "will be the fastest charging electric vehicle ever offered with the capability to charge at rates of up to 20 miles per minute," according to a press release. That's about 300 miles of range in just 20 minutes of charging, according to the company, which is making a pretty big deal out of its upcoming four door sedan right now. Just last week, [Lucid announced that]() the vehicle will have a [whopping 517 miles]() (832 km) on a single charge, beating out Tesla’s current range king, the Model S, with an estimated 402 miles. ## KW on KW Today, Lucid announced a 900-volt charger that can charge at an impressive rate of up to 300 kilowatts. To put that into perspective, the third generation of Tesla's Supercharger network maxes out at 250 kW. Lucid claims its charging tech will have "full interoperability with public charging infrastructure," including existing 350 kilowatt fast chargers that are currently being built in the country. ## Both Ways But it will also — with the help of Electrify America, a subsidiary of Volkswagen — build out a separate fast charger network in the US, using the Combined Charging System (CCS) standard. The company also announced what it claims to be the first-ever bidirectional AC charging station for the home, meaning that the charger can use their Lucid Air to pump electricity back into houses or "off-grid vacation properties," according to the release, like a giant battery. **READ MORE:** [Lucid Motors boasts it will have ‘the fastest charging electric vehicle ever offered’]() \[*The Verge*\] **More on Lucid:** *[Tesla Competitor, Lucid, Claims Their Car Will Have a 517 Mile Range]()* ## Author I've been at Futurism since 2017, where my role has evolved to encompass design, writing, and increasingly editing. I've always been fascinated by space exploration and advanced transportation, which I've leaned into by interviewing luminaries in those fields while closely following the dimensions of policy and regulation that allow next-generation projects to succeed -- or, sometimes, to fail. I'm also keenly interested in the effects of generative AI on society, policies, and democratic institutions, as well as clean energy, physics and biology, and the vagaries of tech leadership. My work for Futurism has been cited by publications including Ars Technica, Gizmodo, PC Magazine, Jalopnik, Fox News, and the New York Post. I spent my childhood living in locations including Manila, the Philippines, and Geneva, Switzerland, attended McGill University, and now live in Toronto, Canada. Before Futurism I worked at AskMen and a small photography studio. In my free time, I'm an avid gardener, foodie, and craft beer lover, as well as a maker of artisanal hot pepper sauces. I have a magnificent dog named Freida. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()