Mercedes adopts Tesla’s EV charger.
„… which is rapidly becoming the de facto charging standard in North America and Europe.“
Wait? Europe? I have never heard of anyone in Europe switching to NACS. Europe is all CCS2, even Tesla uses CCS2. Only Model S and X are using a custom Tesla-Solution which is based on the Typ2 AC-Connector. An probably switch to CCS2 in the next generation cars.
So, definitely no NACS in Europe as far as I know.
You have to go out of your way to even find Tesla charging stations in Germany. They are comparatively rare and far in between.
Could be worse.
The whole article reads like a tesla ad. Uptime percentages for Tesla which can’t be confirmed and nothing except “plagued by downtime” for other chargers. Tesla is doing this because other companies are eating their lunch. Elon literally said he’d never do 400v because no one needs it and now look at him.
And it’s ridiculously backwards. The CCS 2 standard allows for so much more than Tesla’s connector and yet people act like NACS is better. It’s literally called North American Charging Standard for a reason, because no one else uses it.
Yeah, only 400V. :/ a lot of cars will have 800V in the future. Of course, they have technology built in to be compatible to 400V charging. But the automakers using 800V are already speculating the drop the 400V compatibility as soon as possible because it will get less and less relevant. (Despite Tesla, most new installed chargers are 400V chargers… is anyone else installing still 400V???)
And 900A charging through this tiny NACS connector… well. For how long? 2 minutes? I’m still quite sceptical.
We‘ll see what happens.
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Standard business practice. Every company create their own proprietary stuff and try to make them the standard via lobbying etc, then earn money from other companies when their stuff becomes the standard.
Looking like the Tesla connector is well on its way to becoming the standard now. GM, Ford, Rivian, (I’m forgetting one), and now Mercedes all switching over. The Tesla Supercharger network in the US is fantastic, much better than the alternative. Hopefully that doesn’t go downhill as more cars flood the network.
ABB is supporting it therefore EA is supporting it, therefore it’s only a matter of time before VW is supporting it. Stellantis basically has no choice. V4 superchargers will have 800v so Hyundai-Kia should be able to jump on board, assuming the V2L stuff is worked out. Not sure of the status of that on NACS right now but it shouldn’t be a big lift for Hyundai since at this point it’s more of a physical difference.
