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by promocha
1111 days ago
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This makes sense as Ford just adopted Tesla's NACS (North American Charging Standard) and GM would logically follow. We can now assume that the charging industry is disrupted by Tesla's NACS. Existing EV charging companies for ex. EVGO would need to upgrade all their chargers to adopt Tesla's connector. Currently none of the existing chargers, if it all, work with Teslas. The worst thing of this all Tesla would start selling chargers to networks and only moat existing charging companies have is the 10-15 years leases they have on charging sites. |
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There is an adapter for any tesla (except the OG roadster) to use CCS1 DC Fast charging plug; it's $450 for the elderly original model S cars to be updated to support the CCS1 protocol and you also get the big chonky plug adapter as well.
Apparently the new supercharger kiosks support 'ccs1' protocols with an adapter, so if you've got a CCS1 plug car you can avail yourself of the super new superchargers with that plug.
There's also an adapter to let you use L2 (AC "normal") chargers -- I think you get the adapter when you buy the car; it's just a passive adapter.
But this effectively kills all DC fast charging networks in the same way chademo is dead; there will be some population of cars to use it but it'll plateau and shrink and evaporate.
Good riddance to CCS1 -- the charging experience is astonishingly hostile compared to "drive up, plug-in, get coffee, come back, drive away". I can only imagine that there's a memo somewhere to the effect of "make DC fast charging so bad it drives people away from EVs"