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In the electric vehicle market in North America (the United States, Canada and Mexico), there are currently two standards of chargers, one is the unique charging head used by Tesla, and the other is the Combined Charging System (CCS) used by all the other electric vehicle manufacturers.first Tesla announceswill reveal the specifications and design standards of its unique charging head and rename it the North American Charging Standard (NACS), hoping it will be adopted by third-party electric vehicle charging networks.
Tesla claims that NACS “has no moving parts, is half the size of CCS, and has twice the charging power” and that vehicles using NACS are “twice as powerful as all CCS combined, and stations Tesla’s Superchargers offer NACS. of charging stations is 60% higher than that of CCS.”
Tesla seems to have reached a tipping point now: While NACS is actually better than CCS in terms of the number of vehicles or charging stations, this is mostly because Tesla has many years of first-mover advantage. In fact, Tesla’s user data comparison between NACS and CCS is not actually the victory of NACS, but CCS is about to catch up and threatens the hegemony of NACS. If Tesla doesn’t open up and try to set NACS as the standard before CCS fully catches up with the lag, it could result that Tesla will become a minority in the market. Eventually, I’m afraid it will have to accept CCS just like Apple abandoned Lightning.
Tesla said there are already third-party EV charging networks “planning to add NACS to their charging stations,” but didn’t say which charging network or what scale it would roll out. Tesla disbanded its PR team in front of the media a long time ago, so it’s quite difficult to get information about it.
