The shift towards the Tesla EV charging standard came in 2022, when Tesla shared their charging connector design, hoping that network operators and automakers would adopt the technology and help create a new standard in North America. However, at this time, every automaker was using the combined Charging standard in North America.
This led to the unlikely event of Tesla superchargers becoming common, even though the supercharging stations were considered superior and more user-friendly. Yet, only six months later, Ford became the first that make the announcement, letting everyone know that their electric vehicles would have access to more than 12000 Superchargers across the US and Canada.
The deal was not just about Ford having owners access to a special adaptor, rather than integrating Ford vehicles in the NACS ports instead of the basic ports known as CSS, the charging standard. And after Ford, Rivian, GM, BMW, Hyundai, Porsche, Audi, Kia, Lucid, Stellantis, and Volkswagen followed the initiative.
It is also worth mentioning that in the US there are 36,499 NACS ports available publicly, yet some of them could be from other companies, compared to 16,925 CSS ports as reported by TechCrunch.
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