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In practice there are only three: NACS (currently only at Tesla stations); CCS (everywhere that isn't Tesla), and J1772 (destination charging).

NACS is the industry consensus on the one true North American plug to rule them all going forward.

CHAdeMO is completely dead -- you'll sometimes see them, but they're being kept on life support if not outright decommissioned.

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In practical terms, CCS and J1772 are the same standard, in the sense that 2 prong and 3 prong US power plugs are the same standard, since receiving plugs support both.

I do still see CHAdeMO at a lot of EA and EVgo stations (I usually charge at home, so my charging station experience is mostly limited to road trips)

Around here EA's upgrading to CCS-only stations. The older non-upgraded stations only have a single CHAdeMO plug that is usually out of order because it's on very old hardware.

> NACS (currently only at Tesla stations)

The J3400 plug is already deployed by other charge point operators. ChargePoint had J3400 plugs on their chargers 6 months ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3-0xRTduPI

There are still in the neighborhood of 190,000 Leafs in the U.S.

For better or for worse, the charging networks have generally agreed that the aging Leaf population isn't worth supporting.

(Which makes it absolute lunacy that Nissan is still selling the Leaf)

Especially when they apparently have a replacement platform that is perfectly adequate (Ariya).

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