The Tesla Charging Takeover!

I don't care which standard everyone goes with so long as there is a standard that's widely supported. It makes business sense for the owners of the charging network to open it up to as many customers as possible.

I just hope NACS becomes the “standard” fast enough to get ahead of the expansion of charging networks. That way there aren’t too many outdated chargers getting installed.

I can’t imagine a Hummer EV taking up a supercharger stall for 2.5 hours to fill that sucker.

It could be a win for everyone... as long as Tesla scales to meet the demand. As a Tesla owner, I'm terrified of a potential future where we have lineups at every charger.

It is so funny! In Europe ALL superchargers and tesla cars are CCS! We dont have the Tesla plug at all!!!

Texas said it will require electric vehicle charging companies to include both Tesla's NACS standard as well as the CCS standard if they want to be part of a state program to electrify the state's highways using federal dollars.

I would say the big change for Ford, GM and Rivian would be that the physical design of NACS is better for the end user. The cables are lighter, easier to use and overall a better experience. That's why Ford made the change. Experience matters for customers. So this is a huge win for EVs. Now we will have to see if EA, ChargePoint and the others step up on that experience and adopt NACS / retrofit.

Definitely gonna help the experience, quite unfortunate for those from some brands that say they'll switch for cars from production year 2025 or whatever, so any car up until then they'll end up being less valuable

In Europe where all superchargers has CCS that is more or less standard for all EVs it has been possible for all manufacturers to charge almost a year.

In EU all EVs are required to have CSS2. CCS2 might not be the best connector, but every car and charger has them. That allowed Tesla to just open the least busy chargers to all. I hope NA someday will be as lucky.

This is a great trend! I do hope that Tesla scales their charging network to serve demand, and quickly. On a few roadtrips in the last 6 months, I've had to wait for a charger to open up at some of the charging stations.

In the Nordics tesla opened up their chargers to all ev's a while ago and it's great. We also have a charger standard that everyone has to follow, including tesla, so it's pretty neat. Universal standards are great, was surprised to learn CCS wasn't the standard for American EV's

Glad to see that you are feeling better Marques!!

are other providers such as Electrify America/ChargePoint allowed to build NACS DC chargers? It would be really bad if Tesla had a monopoly over all charging infrastructure in North America

8:13 One of the biggest aspects of the GM-Tesla announcement that was overlooked is that GM considers Tesla their "second" EV charging partner. EVgo is their first. So it does appear GM and Rivian are going to continue building out their respective networks (Ultium Ready and Adventure Network). Hopefully, Rivian opens their network, but with this announcement, they might be transitioning away from the HUBER + SUHNER CCS1 cables and adopting whatever we end up calling this smaller format CCS standard after it is homologated. GM's partner EVgo has always maintained an open network with support for a number of vehicles and charging standards (including Tesla's native standard through a CHAdeMO adapter), so that shouldn't change.

I just did 4000 km (over 5 days) in a short-range Model 3 that I bought over 4 years ago. Zero problems. Zero range anxiety. Everything just worked. I'm not worried at all about others using the sc network -- it'll be 10x bigger in a couple of years, or more; as common as gas stations soon, and with charging times down to 5 minutes in the near future, what's there to worry about? Much better than the alternative.

No one seems to mention that if more cars use NACS then EV charging companies like Electrify America will put NACS on their chargers so a whole new avenue of charger’s become available to Tesla’s

Couple points, Tesla opened API up to Ford etc so that control of the charging can be done through the Ford app. The advantage for tesla owners is the predicative forecasting of charger access based on queued demand. This could be degraded by 3rd party users who are not tied into the smart routing software.

This already happens but I also think it will be even easier to convince shopping malls and other convenient locations to locate a bank of chargers that every EV can use instead of just Tesla and get the benefit of many more customers wanting to shop there while there vehicle is charging.

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