Adapters will vastly expand charger availability to Kia EV customers Current and recent EV6 and EV9 customers will receive free NACS adapter in coming months Kia EV6 and EV9 customers will have access to more than 16,5001 NACS DC fast chargers across the United States in January 2025 Kia America will … [continued]
Seismic shift in competitive landscape opens opportunity to further drive utilization of the EVgo network, expand footprint with new site host partners, and serve more Tesla EV drivers EVgo Inc. (NASDAQ: EVGO) (“EVgo” or the “Company”), one of the nation’s largest public fast charging networks for electric vehicles (EVs), this … [continued]
A few days ago, Tesla shocked the charging world when Elon decided to fire the whole Supercharger development team. These weren’t the people who maintain existing sites (thank goodness!), but they are the people who found places to put chargers in, designed the plans for the site, dealt with utilities, … [continued]
When it comes to the transition to NACS in North America, access to Tesla’s Supercharger network has been the main topic of discussion. This comes naturally, as the Supercharger network has not only proven itself to be very reliable, but to generally just have a lot more locations in a … [continued]
A recent interview with Jim Farley by Tom Moloughney at State of Charge revealed some interesting details about how the deal that changed EV charging went down. When Ford announced that it was moving from CCS1 to Tesla’s NACS plug last year, it rocked the EV charging world. We know … [continued]
One of the big arguments for switching to Tesla’s NACS plug was standardization. Europe chose CCS2 for its EVs. China created its own GB/T standard plug. Whereas, the US only sort of chose CCS1, with only government spending on chargers tied to the standard. This led to a fragmented charging … [continued]
Ford CEO Jim Farley announced today that the company is not only going to start supplying adapters for existing Ford CCS vehicles to charge at Tesla’s Superchargers, but that eligible Mach-E and F-150 Lightning owners will soon be able to reserve a complimentary adapter. When we announced @Ford EVs would … [continued]
SAE International has just published its new J3400 standard for NACS compatible EV charging. The process took just six months.
Some months ago, I wrote an article about the surprise switch from CCS to NACS as the de facto standard for EV charging in North America. CCS charging won’t disappear, but Tesla has over 60% of the EVs on the road and now most manufacturers who were formerly committed to … [continued]
One of the big stories of 2023 is finally wrapping up as VW Group (including Volkswagen, Audi, Porsche, and the upcoming revival of Scout) announces that the company’s going to switch to Tesla’s NACS plug for future cars. And, with the SAE recently announcing its full adoption as an industry … [continued]
