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action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /home4/scienrds/scienceandnerds/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6114Source:https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2023\/06\/09\/gm-tesla-charging-standard\/<\/a><\/br> Seven months ago<\/span>, when Tesla announced it would\u00a0share its EV charging connector design<\/a> to encourage automakers to adopt the technology and help make it the new standard in North America, few, if any, predicted competitors would bite.<\/p>\n Now, with Ford<\/a> and General Motors<\/a> agreeing to integrate Tesla charging tech in their next-gen vehicles by 2025, the EV industry is suddenly on the cusp of a shift that could splinter the market.<\/p>\n \u201cThese announcements with Ford and GM solidify that there will continue to be a standards war for a decade,\u201d Arcady Sosinov, founder and CEO of fast-charging startup FreeWire Technologies, told TechCrunch+. \u201cNACS (Tesla\u2019s standard) is a better experience, and more OEMs, we believe, will converge on it.\u201d<\/p>\n Most electric vehicles in the U.S., with the exception of Tesla, use the Combined Charging System, an internationally recognized charging standard developed by a consortium of automotive manufacturers, including Ford, Volkswagen and Daimler. Tesla went a different direction and developed a charging ecosystem (dubbed the North American Charging Standard, or NACS) that includes the charging port and connector. Tesla also built out a network of thousands of fast chargers called Superchargers, which are only accessible to vehicles with the NACS standard.<\/p>\n CCS has been the go-to standard for automakers. However, the quality of Tesla\u2019s charging system \u2014 from the size and weight of the charging cables to the quality of the Supercharging stations to the ease of payment \u2014\u00a0<\/em>has helped propel the automaker to become the No. 1 seller of EVs.<\/p>\n \u201cFord and GM are saying they can\u2019t wait any longer,\u201d Sosinov said. \u201cThey can\u2019t put their success in the hands of these charging networks that are just not doing it, and that\u2019s a really big statement to make and should be a shot across the bow at folks like the Electrify Americas and the EVgos.\u201d<\/p>\n Tesla is poised to make 7,500 Superchargers available<\/a> to non-Teslas by 2024, according to a statement from the White House, but it\u2019s not clear whether Ford\u2019s and GM\u2019s alignments with Tesla have changed those plans.<\/p>\n Opening Tesla Superchargers to Ford, GM and possibly other automakers also gives Tesla guaranteed utilization on its infrastructure. But that comes with its own challenges. Tesla Superchargers located along corridors in California and parts of the East Coast are already crowded with Teslas.<\/p>\n Charging isn\u2019t a high-margin business for Tesla. The automaker\u2019s revenue from \u201cservices and other,\u201d which includes Supercharging along with Tesla servicing and parts and used car sales, came to $1.8 billion in the first quarter<\/a>. The cost of that revenue was $1.7 billion. But getting more use out of existing chargers could help Tesla fund the deployment of even more infrastructure, thus fracturing the industry further.<\/p>\n The EV charging industry is a nascent one, and while CCS advocates might bemoan the premature demise of a standardized charging protocol, the fact remains that we\u2019re already living in a two-standard system. At least in the United States.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n <\/br><\/br><\/br><\/p>\n
\nGM and Ford could help spark a charging standards war by teaming up with Tesla<\/br>
\n2023-06-09 21:45:00<\/br><\/p>\nA two-standard system<\/h2>\n