Kempower has introduced a charging unit designed to solve one of the thorniest problems in electric transport infrastructure: how to serve passenger cars and heavy-duty trucks at the same site without building two separate systems. The new Mega Satellite Flex supports both the established CCS standard, at up to 560 kW, and the emerging Megawatt Charging System, at up to 1.2 MW, making it the company's first dispenser capable of switching between the two. It was shown publicly this week at the Unplug & Recharge event held during ACT Expo.
Why One Machine Now Does Two Jobs
The electric vehicle charging sector has spent the last several years building around a single dominant standard, CCS, which works well for cars but struggles to deliver the sustained high power that freight trucks require. MCS was developed specifically to close that gap, but its rollout has been slow, and most existing sites were built with one standard in mind. Kempower's approach treats that transition as a design problem rather than a waiting game. A single Mega Satellite Flex unit can serve an 800-volt passenger EV in the morning and a heavy truck needing 1,500 amps in the afternoon, a flexibility that matters far more to fleet operators than most drivers realize, in much the same way that the choice of a charging network can be as consequential to a user's overall experience as, say, whether your ISP can still see anything about their driving patterns once they're on the road. whether your ISP can still see anything
What the Hardware Actually Delivers
The specifications reflect the scale of power now required at highway charging corridors. The unit handles 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, short enough to keep contact resistance manageable at these current levels. An optional payment terminal allows the charger to function as a standalone commercial point rather than requiring a separate kiosk. Just as important, the Mega Satellite Flex plugs into Kempower's existing distributed charging architecture, meaning site operators who already run Kempower equipment can add the new units without redesigning their electrical backbone or power cabinets.
The Economics Behind the Engineering
Charging infrastructure is capital-intensive, and idle equipment is the enemy of return on investment. Operators who build sites exclusively for trucks risk underused pavement during off-peak freight hours, while car-only sites forfeit the more lucrative, higher-margin heavy-duty market entirely. By serving both vehicle classes from day one, Kempower is betting that mixed-use sites will reach profitability faster and require less land and permitting overhead than parallel buildouts. That logic also anticipates the wider adoption of 800-volt vehicle architectures, which are becoming more common among newer passenger EVs and benefit directly from the higher current ceilings this hardware provides.
What Comes Next
The Mega Satellite Flex is scheduled to reach the North American and European markets in July 2026, giving fleet operators and charging network developers more than a year to plan deployments around it. Its arrival also signals that hardware manufacturers no longer see CCS and MCS as competing tracks but as parts of the same infrastructure problem, one that will only grow more urgent as electric freight trucks move from pilot programs to daily operation on major corridors.