Electrify America on Wednesday introduced the opening of a DC fast-charging station close to the Grand Canyon, placing its pure splendor inside attain of extra EV drivers.

Positioned on the Grand Canyon Customer Middle on the south entrance of Grand Canyon Nationwide Park in Tusayan, Arizona, the charging station consists of six particular person chargers with energy charges as much as 350 kw—the utmost presently provided on the Electrify American community.

A visit to the Grand Canyon was beforehand difficult for a lot of EVs. The South Rim is about 160 miles from Flagstaff, Arizona, the closest massive metropolis, and there are few locations to cease in between.

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Electrify America introduced earlier this 12 months that it plans so as to add some North American Charging Customary (NACS) Tesla connectors, however none look like out there at this location but. The closest Tesla Supercharger is in Flagstaff.

Funded by the Volkswagen Group as a part of that automaker’s diesel-emissions dishonest settlement, Electrify America’s most important competitor apart from the Tesla Supercharger community is prone to be the community beginning to take kind with seven automakers collectively invested. BMW Group, Basic Motors, Honda, Hyundai, Kia, Mercedes-Benz, and Stellantis collectively goal to put in no less than 30,000 high-powered cost factors at city and freeway places.

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All of those efforts have usually been much less centered on parks and different out of doors locations. As just lately as a decade in the past, nationwide parks like Yosemite which have been even then changing into frequented by EVs did not have a transparent plan for charging. Rivian has additionally been working by itself charging community, however it’s principally Degree 2 charging oriented towards those that wish to cost up whereas out for hours doing an exercise.

Nationwide parks thus current an open avenue for growth for Electrify America, which for a time was focusing efforts round Walmart shops, however the retailer final 12 months introduced plans to go its personal approach on charging. Many of those new chargers might quickly want to fulfill stricter reliability requirements as a part of the federal authorities’s $7.5 billion charging infrastructure funding.