Magne Charge (also known as Magne-Charge, MagneCharge and J1773) is a largely obsolete

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system used to charge

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s (BEVs). It was produced by

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subsidiary

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for vehicles such as the

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, the Chevy S10 EV, and the Toyota

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. It is still used by a few hundred first generation Toyota

electric vehicles. As these first generation Toyota RAV4 EV electric vehicles retire from the roadways, Magne Charge will be completely obsolete since no existing or future electric vehicles will use it. The 2012 Gen 2

, as well as the

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and

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, use the wired SAE J1772 charging standard instead of Magne Charge.

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The Level 2 charger with 6.6 kW was the most common version. A Level 3 higher power 50 kW fast charge version was demonstrated. This charger was unique in that its charge port used an inductive charge paddle, of which there were two sizes, a small and large paddle. These are often referred on electric vehicle charging station maps as SPI and LPI stations for Small Paddle Inductive and Large Paddle Inductive stations. The system was also designed to be safe even when used in the rain and was demonstrated in operation fully submerged in water. for vehicles such as the

, the Chevy S10 EV, and the Toyota

"Demonstration of the Magne Charge Inductive Charging System."
(Video). General Motors Corp., 1998. Retrieved on 2007-08-23. Magne Charge support was withdrawn by General Motors in 2002, after the

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settled on a conductive charging interface for electric vehicles in California in June 2001. In 2011 the

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created the Reconnect CA Program, a grant program to upgrade and expand existing publicly available EV charging infrastructure to the SAE J1772 charging standard.

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In the film

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, the character Vincent is shown plugging a Magne Charge paddle into his electric car at 41 minutes into the film.

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