We Tour a Facility in China to See How EV Charging Equipment Is Made
Key takeaways
- This is where Lectron assembles its charging adapters as well as its new Nexus Level 2 home-charging unit.
- Almost every new EV comes with one or more to accommodate plugging in a SAE charger into a NACS port or vice versa.
- Lectron invited us to take a peek behind the scenes at the assembly process of its adapters and its new Nexus Level 2 home charger at one of its contract manufacturers in southeast China.
Why this matters: an automotive development that could shape industry direction or buying decisions.
This is where Lectron assembles its charging adapters as well as its new Nexus Level 2 home-charging unit.
Lectron|Car and Driver With more and more EVs switching to the NACS charging port, and also more automakers doing deals to let its vehicles charge on Tesla's Supercharger network, we're living in the age of the charging adapter. Almost every new EV comes with one or more to accommodate plugging in a SAE charger into a NACS port or vice versa. What you probably don't realize is the company that makes the vast majority of those adapters is Lectron, which is also a popular provider of Level 2 home-charging units. That's because car companies can be very stingy about allowing suppliers to speak openly about which parts they produce.
Lectron invited us to take a peek behind the scenes at the assembly process of its adapters and its new Nexus Level 2 home charger at one of its contract manufacturers in southeast China. One of the most mind-blowing steps in the highly automated production of the printed circuit boards is where a machine affixes all of the various electrical components—capacitors, resistors, diodes, etc.—which happens in a matter of seconds.