General Motors (GM) recently announced that from 2025 all its new electric vehicles will be produced with NACS charging ports, which can be picked up at Tesla’s advanced charging stations everywhere. Ford (Ford) has previously made a similar decision to adopt Tesla’s charging standard. The addition of Tesla this time means that the three major electric vehicle manufacturers in North America have now unified the charging hardware specifications.
General Motors announced a partnership with Tesla Starting in 2024, GM will provide adapters to allow the NACS cable to be connected to the CCS1 charging port of existing electric vehicles; from 2025, all new electric vehicles will produce NACS charging ports and switch to providing CCS adapters to Customers so they can continue to use the CCS charging network.
Currently, in the United States, Mexico, Canada and other places, the design of electric vehicle charging head is mainly divided into Tesla’s own North American Charging Standard (NACS), and the combined charging system of vehicle manufacturers other electricity (Combined Charging System, CCS).), the former thousands of advanced charging stations provide services only for Tesla cars, the latter includes North American standards and European standards, and other car manufacturers uses this charging system for electric vehicles. According to the US Department of Energy, Tesla superchargers make up about 60 percent of the total fast charging stations in the US and Canada.
Tesla, GM and Ford together account for 70% of the current US electric vehicle market. Some executives in the electric vehicle industry believe that the difference in charging connectors is one of the barriers preventing more consumers from choosing electric vehicles.
Source: Forbes
