In an effort to persuade network providers and manufacturers to adopt the technology and aid in making it the new norm in North America, Tesla is revealing the design of its EV charging port. Tesla announced that its design and specification files are ready for download in a blog post on Friday. In order to make Tesla’s charging connector a public standard, the firm claimed it is “actively working with relevant standards bodies to codify Tesla’s charging connector as a public standard.”
All Tesla vehicles have a charging plug that supports up to 1 MW of DC charging as well as AC charging. Compared to the Combined Charging System (CCS) connectors used by the majority of EVs in North America, it is regarded as having a more compact design and better performance.
Tesla asserts that the North American Charging Standard (NACS), the name it has given to its charging connector and charge port, is the most widely used charging standard in the continent. This statistic is based on the number of chargers at Tesla-branded Supercharging stations as well as vehicle sales in North America. In the US, Tesla has roughly 1,500 Supercharger stations. An average of nine chargers are present at each station.
Tesla did not identify any automakers or providers of charging infrastructure as converts. It’s difficult to imagine GM, Ford, and Stellantis switching to Tesla’s technology in this intensely competitive environment, where almost every automaker is now using the CCS.
But at least one business, the EV startup Aptera, is in favour of the change. Aptera demanded earlier this year that the U.S. government make Tesla’s Supercharger technology the norm for all EV charging across the nation. Additionally, several of EVGo’s American charging stations now have Tesla hookups.
Network operators “already have plans in motion” to implement NACS at their chargers, the business claimed in the blog post. Tesla owners would be able to charge at these stations without the use of an adaptor if network service providers like ChargePoint, EVConnect, or Electrify America added NACS. Owners of those vehicles would have access to Tesla’s North American Supercharging and destination charging networks if automakers switched to NACS for its EVs.
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