In another win for Tesla, SAE International (formerly the Society of Automotive Engineers) has announced that it will set performance standards for using Tesla’s electric vehicle charging cords so that other EVs may use its propriety charger network.
Until recently, Tesla had fit its vehicles with a proprietary charging adaptor called NACS, which was engineered for its global Supercharger network (as of earlier this year, Tesla had 17,800 Superchargers in its US network). All other automakers adopted a different charging adaptor, known as CCS, for their EVs. Tesla’s automobiles could use an adapter to allow a NACS plug to use a CCS, but the reverse was impossible.
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