The famous hard discount brand, Lidl, is launching into the market for charging stations for electric cars.
Lidl is a company known for its physical hard discount stores located all over the world. Six months ago, she opened her online store to compete with Amazon. Since then, it has not only been possible to order DIY items and other non-food products, but also high-tech accessories from the brand on the Internet. The German brand is also launching into the electric car marketwith a wall-mounted charging station for electric vehicles to be installed in your garage or under a courtyard, the device having an IP 65 protection index, against dust and splashing water.
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There Ultimate Speed terminal offers you “easily recharge electric and hybrid vehicles at home”. Its size is compact, it has a color LCD screen and its sleep mode is energy efficient. It is sold in two versions with different power and amperage. THE most affordable model, at €349delivers an input and output current of 16 A and provides a power of 3.7 kW in single-phase and 11 kW in three-phase for 7 different charging powers.
Lidl is launching into home charging stations, and its product is already out of stock
For €150 more, you can simply double the performance of your wall outlet, with an intensity of 32 A and a power of 7.4 kW in single-phase and 22 kW in three-phase for 9 distinct charging powers. In addition to the 3,700 charging stations accessible in the car parks of its French stores, Lidl’s new products are a huge success.
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They are already out of stock, proof that the needs and expectations are great in this market which, according to a press release from AAA DATA, sales of new cars are booming in France.