Mercedes-Benz is about to affix the likes of Tesla and Nio by providing its personal charging community for electrical automobiles.

Mercedes’ community, often called the Mercedes-Benz Excessive-Energy Charging Community, was first introduced in January, and by the tip of fall can have its first stations on three continents. They are going to be in Atlanta, Georgia, Chengdu, China, and Mannheim, Germany.

Mercedes will proceed increasing the community and by the tip of the last decade expects to have over 2,000 stations worldwide providing entry to greater than 10,000 DC fast-charging factors mixed. The stations are being rolled out at foremost site visitors areas and choose dealerships, and supply different close by facilities, the automaker mentioned. Tesla’s Supercharger community presently has simply over 5,000 places.

Relying on the area, the stations will supply charging charges of as much as 400 kw, supplied by way of the respective commonplace charging techniques CCS1, CCS2, NACS, and GB/T. Mercedes mentioned the stations shall be rolled out in core markets.

Mercedes-Benz EV charging station

In North America, Mercedes is working with charging community know-how firm ChargePoint and photo voltaic power and battery storage firm MN8 Vitality on the build-out. The involvement of MN8 Vitality will assist guarantee prospects have entry to renewable power. In its earlier announcement, Mercedes mentioned the community can have over 400 stations in North America by 2027, which mixed can have greater than 2,500 fast-charging factors.

The stations shall be open to EVs from all manufacturers, although Mercedes house owners can have the unique possibility of reserving a charging level. The stations will even function Plug & Cost, which means eligible automobiles can have the charging and cost processes activated as quickly because the cable is plugged in.

Mercedes additionally introduced in July that it plans to undertake the NACS commonplace for the North American market ranging from 2025, and that Mercedes EV house owners ranging from 2024 can have entry to a few of Tesla’s charging community, initially utilizing a CCS to NACS adapter.

Regardless of establishing its personal charging community, Mercedes will proceed to assist the growth of the Ionity community in Europe, plus a new North American community additionally backed by six different automakers.