SPAN Drive

SPAN Drive is a Level 2 home EV charging station that pairs with SPAN Panel for a dynamic and flexible charging experience. With the SPAN Home app, SPAN Drive allows you to charge your EV faster, cleaner, and smarter.

While new EVs generally come with a Level 1 charger (a cord or charging system that plugs into a standard home electrical outlet), a Level 2 charger requires a dedicated 208-240 volt circuit and charges at significantly higher speeds. Level 1 charging typically delivers up to 6 miles of range per hour of charging to your vehicle; Level 2 charging typically delivers up to 27 miles of range per hour of charging.



SPAN Drive is a high-powered Level 2 EV charger, delivering 11.4 kW, or up to 41 miles of range per hour of charging.* Paired with the intelligence of the SPAN Panel, SPAN Drive is able to charge fast by adjusting charging speed dynamically and “borrowing” unused capacity from other home circuits.


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*Charging speeds will vary by make and model.

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Yes—SPAN Drive is designed to pair with any generation of SPAN Panel in order to leverage SPAN’s whole-home intelligence and get unique benefits like dynamic charging, charging with solar*, scheduled time of use charging, and more. SPAN Drive is sold exclusively as an accessory to SPAN Panel and is not supported as a standalone charger



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*Charge with solar is available now for SPAN Panel Main 32, coming soon for all other SPAN Panels.

Today, the SPAN Home app supports full functionality for one SPAN Drive charger.

SPAN Panel and SPAN Drive are engineered to be extremely flexible hardware platforms. However, industry standards for vehicle-to-grid and vehicle-to-home (V2X) functionality are still in early stages. While we have not announced V2X functionality with SPAN Drive at this time, we are actively keeping an eye on the space and look forward to considering this functionality for the future.

Stay tuned.

SPAN Drive exceeds the charging rate of many other Level 2 EV chargers by leveraging the intelligence of SPAN Panel to dynamically ramp charging speeds up or down based on real-time household energy consumption.

Typical Level 2 EV charging solutions require an electrician to set a fixed maximum charging rate at the time of installation (based on worst-case peak demand scenarios). This is often limited to 24-40A (5.7-9.6 kW). SPAN Drive delivers up to 48A (11.5 kW) of power to your vehicle. If SPAN detects your home energy usage is nearing maximum total system capacity, SPAN Drive will temporarily lower the rate of charge until that extra power becomes available again for fast charging