Kempower has introduced a single charging unit built to serve both passenger EVs and heavy-duty electric trucks, a design choice that could reshape how charging sites are planned in the years ahead. The new Mega Satellite Flex supports the established CCS standard at up to 560 kW and the emerging Megawatt Charging System (MCS) at up to 1.2 MW, making it the company's first dispenser capable of handling either protocol from the same cabinet.
The announcement came this week at ACT Expo, during Kempower's Unplug & Recharge event for customers and partners, where the unit is on display. Operators evaluating fleet routes and charging corridors will want to understand how power delivery, cable specifications, and site layout interact before committing to hardware - much the way travelers checking a VPN connection might want a reliable method, such as how to confirm your location has changed, to verify that a system is actually doing what it claims. In this case, the claim is flexibility: one dispenser, two charging languages, no rebuild required when a site's traffic mix shifts from cars to trucks or back again.
Why CCS and MCS Coexist
CCS has been the dominant fast-charging standard for passenger EVs for more than a decade, built around power levels that suit sedans, crossovers, and light commercial vans. Heavy trucks are a different problem entirely. A loaded semi needs to recharge in a time window that keeps freight schedules intact, and CCS simply wasn't engineered for that scale. MCS was developed specifically to push power delivery into the megawatt range, cutting charging time for vehicles with battery packs many times larger than a typical car's.
The two standards are expected to run in parallel for years rather than one replacing the other. That transition period is exactly what Kempower is targeting. Instead of forcing site operators to guess which standard will dominate a given location, or build separate infrastructure for cars and trucks, the Mega Satellite Flex lets a single site serve both from the outset.
Technical Specifications and Site Design
The unit supports up to 1,500 amps for MCS connections and 700 amps for CCS, with cable lengths of 5 meters for CCS and 2.7 meters for MCS - long enough to accommodate the different vehicle geometries involved. An optional payment terminal can be integrated directly into the dispenser, and the system is compatible with Kempower's existing distributed charging architecture, meaning operators can add it to current sites without reworking the underlying power infrastructure.
The unit also supports 800-volt EV architectures, an increasingly common platform among newer electric vehicles designed for faster charging. That compatibility matters because it future-proofs a site against the next generation of passenger vehicles, not just today's fleet.
What It Means for Operators
Charging site economics depend heavily on utilization. A dispenser sitting idle most of the day is a poor investment regardless of how advanced its technology is. By serving both car and truck traffic, the Mega Satellite Flex is designed to raise the odds that a charging point stays in use throughout the day, which shortens the timeline for recovering the capital cost of installation.
Kempower has said the Mega Satellite Flex is expected to reach the North American and European markets in July 2026, giving fleet operators and site developers a defined window to factor the technology into infrastructure planning already underway for the broader shift toward electric trucking.