Nissan And BMW Will Build EV Charging Stations Together

BMW and Nissan decided to work together. They are planning to build 120 public DC charging locations across 19 states of the United States. Each station will offer a 50 kE DC charging.

Yusuf DemirCloud & Software Reporter

2 Jan 20161 min read

BMW and Nissan decided to work together. They are planning to build 120 public DC charging locations across 19 states of the United States. Each station will offer a 50 kE DC charging. In these stations, there will be two different charging plugs. CHAdeMOB used by Nissan, Kia and Mitsubishi and CCS Combo used by BMW and most of other US and German car manufacturers.

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This is an excellent news for EV market. All electric cars will need stations like these. Of course, you can charge them from your home’s electric grid but depending car’s range all the time it is not possible to go back home. And these stations probably support other brands of cars which are from Japan and Germany.

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BMW and Nissan are not only the ones that installing charging station all around The U.S. but also Tesla has many stations already. If all-electric car manufacturers want to sell more cars, they will need more charging stations like these.

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Yusuf Demir

Cloud & Software Reporter

Yusuf Demir is the Cloud & Software Reporter at TrendinTech, where he covers cloud infrastructure, enterprise platforms, developer tools and the digital transformation of businesses in the UK and the United States. He previously reported on enterprise technology for The Register in London and covered the cloud and SaaS beat for TechCrunch, following the competition between AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, the open source licensing disputes and the rise of Kubernetes. Yusuf holds an MEng in Computing from Imperial College London and speaks regularly at KubeCon and AWS re:Invent, where he moderates conversations with engineers and chief technology officers. He is most interested in the gap between vendor roadmaps and the systems engineers actually run, and in what the cloud bill looks like once the free credits expire.

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