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Ford was one of the first automakers in the United States to announce it would start to use Tesla’s NACS (North American Charging Standard) connector in its future electric vehicles, something that almost all of the other North American automakers have since agreed to do as well.However, that switch to the NACS connector won’t happen until 2025. That’s when Ford and most of the rest are expected to start releasing vehicles to customers with the adapter built in. In the meantime, Ford’s EVs still feature the…

Mazda is the latest automaker to announce that it will adopt NACS, Tesla’s open-source charging standard. It’s going to Mazda’s very few EVs access to Tesla Superchargers. Virtually all automakers selling electric vehicles in North America have announced that they will adopt Tesla’s NACS connector in future electric vehicles to take advantage of the Supercharger network. Most of them have said that the rollout will take the form of an adapter in 2024, followed by a direct integration in new…

Volkswagen Group has announced that Audi, Porsche, Scout Motors, and Volkswagen will adopt the North American Charging Standard (NACS), which was developed by Tesla, for their future electric vehicles (EVs) in the North American Region. According to the conglomerate, these companies will offer the NACS connector on their EVs from 2025, which will allow people to charge those vehicles with any charger that offers an NACS connector, including those installed at the Tesla Supercharger and Mercedes-Benz Charging Hub charging…

is the latest automaker to Tesla's North American Charging Standard () in electric vehicles. Subsidiaries Audi, Porsche and Scout Motors will implement the NACS in their North American EVs starting in 2025 as well.The VW brands are also looking into providing owners of existing models with adapters so they can tap into Tesla's Supercharger network. There are more than 15,000 Supercharger stations in North America. VW's EVs will be able to charge at those in addition to more than 3,800 DC fast charging outlets run by…

Credit: Genesis The Federal Highway Administration announced today that it will seek feedback on how government rules should be updated to account for the new NACS/J3400 charging standard, potentially unlocking $7.5 billion in federal subsidies for the Tesla-developed charging connector. As part of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the US government has allocated $7.5 billion in subsidies to expand EV charging access. $5 billion of that is through the NEVI program, which is intended…

VW, Audi and Porsche have all committed to use the Tesla-developed NACS connector starting in 2025. It’s one of the last dominos to fall towards universal adoption of the connector. NACS has taken the industry by storm this year, after Tesla released specifications of its charging connector in November 2022. It called it the “North American Charging Standard,” which was somewhat of an absurd name at the time, given that Tesla was the only company using it. However, since Tesla is a majority of…

Joel Patel / Digital Trends General Motors and Ford are getting Supercharger access quicker than we thought. According to a Tesla employee who recently spoke at a city planning committee meeting about a new Supercharger station, Ford and GM will get Supercharger access as early as 2024. Almost all major automakers have announced that they’ll switch to NACS (the same Tesla connector that Tesla uses) by 2025 — meaning that we should start to see non-Tesla cars with the connector sometime in mid-2024. Of course, it’s…

SAE has followed through on its plan to finish its NACS certification by the end of the year, and the NACS standard is now ready to go. And the new standard promises to solve a lot of charging problems in one fell swoop. Tesla released specifications of its charging connector in November 2022. It called it the “North American Charging Standard,” which was somewhat of an absurd name at the time, given that Tesla was the only company using it. However, since Tesla is a majority of the US EV…

Tesla It’s finally happening. Up until now, we’ve had a few different connector types on electric vehicles, but everyone is finally moving toward one connector. The NACS connector, invented by Tesla, is set to become the dominant (or only) charging connector on electric vehicles in North America. But the actual connector is only part of the story if we want better EV charging. It’s an important one, sure, but to create a truly convenient charging experience, software is as important as hardware. What is Plug &…

Toyota has become the latest major automaker to ink a deal with Tesla to adopt the North American Charging Standard (NACS) — also known as “the Tesla plug” — on its fully electric vehicles from 2025. The agreement sees the Japanese car giant following in the footsteps of more than a dozen other automakers that have also adopted Tesla’s charging connector, among them GM, Ford, BMW, Jaguar Land Rover, Volvo, and Honda. The move toward NACS greatly increases the convenience for owners of the growing number of electric…