Tesla's charging standard is being dropped and CCS will be used by everyone. It's a shame North America still has years of plug incompatibilities and adapter fiddling to look forward to.
Europe really got EV charging standardization right. The European EV infrastructure is much further advanced than the North American infrastructure thanks in part to sensible standardization.
The opposite is happening. Tesla is opening their network to other brands. Ford and a few other car makers have already agreed. In new cars made from 2025, you can go to the only properly working charging network, plug in the car, and leave with no credit card hustle. Basically, like Tesla had forever.
It's a shame other brands didn't adopt a much better Tesla adapter as a standard. It's much more convenient and light.
I've seen how adapters work; they work badly and are glitchy. So, if someone buys a car with an old port in 2024, they will start to see lots of pain in 2025.
By implementing CCS. How do you think it works in Europe right now? They all use CCS, both cars and chargers. Tesla included.
Tesla will use their protocol and support CCS on chargers.
What Tesla offers to other brands in North America is much more advanced.
New cars will be able to see on the map how many stalls are available etc.
Payments integration etc.
It's a far more deeper integration and I guess that's the real big deal that needs to be standardized.
Tesla got the best-in-class charging experience, and finally, in 1 year, other brands can have somewhat matching capabilities.
Yes, it's just a plug on the end of a CCS charger.
> What Tesla offers to other brands in North America is much more advanced.
They're offering CCS. It's how it works whether you like it or not.
Not really, Tesla has over 24k charging stalls in the US. The second biggest is Electrify America, and they have only 3,800 charging stalls. There really aren't a lot of EV chargers that are non-tesla in the US, unlike the EU.
https://afdc.energy.gov/fuels/electricity_locations.html
It's plugs on chargers and inlets on cars. It'll be a slow and tedious process.
I think that currently holds the record for the slowest DCFC in the country. :)
Wow! You'd get a better charge from a standard 15A 110V AC plug.
A 15A 110V outlet can supply 1500W continuous (1.5kW). A 4kW DC charger is almost three times higher power than this.
I was referring to the L3 superchargers / fast chargers or equivalent. The majority of the ones you linked are L2 chargers are are not that useful outside of destination charging.