Car companies like Honda, BMW, and Hyundai are banding together to build an EV-charging network bigger than Tesla’s Supercharger empire::Tesla has been building out its Supercharger network for over a decade. Now legacy car companies are taking a page from Elon Musk’s playbook.
That’s early adopter pain for you. In Europe there is one standard, and in the US, we’re getting there. Yes it’ll be a pain for a while that people with CCS ports will need to use adapters at NACS chargers and vice versa, but we’re settling on the underlying CCS technology being the standard, so it’ll just be a matter of connector. Much better than the three standards we had very recently (add chademo)
The article says they’re going to build 30,000 new chargers with two different charging standards. That’s not settling, that’s hedging.
In EU Tesla superchargers have two plugs: one for older Teslas that have the Tesla proprietary connector and one CCS mandated by law and that is used by newer Teslas built for EU market
well with Ford and GM signing deals with Tesla to use their NACS, and Tesla releasing most to all of any ownership of NACS it could be the standard. It will be interesting to see. Some lobbying could get a new bill passed that allows gov funding for NACS super charger stations.
Given how many manufacturers have declared they’re moving to NACS it doesn’t sound like CCS will be the standard I don’t think ?
Ford, General Motors, Mercedes-Benz, Nissan, Polestar, Rivian, and Volvo have signed up.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Charging_Standard
CCS communication protocol not the port itself. Tesla only used a proprietary communication protocol, now they also support CCS communication protocol. Basically means all you need is an adaptor and everything should be interoperable.
Technology Connections just made a whole video about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJOfyMCEzjQ
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