Avcon

Avcon Corporation was a company that manufactured charging interfaces for early battery electric vehicles (BEV).

Avcon belonged to the Maréchal Electric group of companies, which has its primary corporate headquarters in France.

[8] American and Japanese plug-in electric vehicles that came to market starting in 2011 such as the Chevrolet Volt and Nissan Leaf use the Yazaki coupler specified in the 2009 revision of SAE J1772 for level 2 charging.

[citation needed] Many public EV charging installations funded by the California Air Resources Board (CARB) – money came from DMV fees – were required to have both an inductive and a conductive AVCON charging head.

[9] In 2001, AVCON was endorsed by the California Air Resources Board (CARB) over Magne Charge,[10] which caused GM to retire inductive paddle technology in 2002.

This practice will fade away since virtually all 2011 and later production Electric Vehicles are equipped with a SAE J1772 charge port.

AVCON stations are being converted to the round (Yazaki) SAE J1772 (2009) connector or phased out starting in 2011.

Public charging stations near LAX . The two 6 kW AC charging stations reflect the CARB mandate to include both connector types: the inductive Magne-charge gen2 SPI ("small paddle", left) and the conductive EVII ICS-200 AVCON (right).