Car companies like Honda, BMW, and Hyundai are banding together to build an EV-charging network bigger than Tesla’s Supercharger empire::Tesla has been building out its Supercharger network for over a decade. Now legacy car companies are taking a page from Elon Musk’s playbook.
Pretty ridiculous to have multiple standards for this anyway. Imagine if you had to hunt down a gas station that served whatever proprietary fuel you needed.
That’s early adopter pain for you. In Europe there is one standard, and in the US, we’re getting there. Yes it’ll be a pain for a while that people with CCS ports will need to use adapters at NACS chargers and vice versa, but we’re settling on the underlying CCS technology being the standard, so it’ll just be a matter of connector. Much better than the three standards we had very recently (add chademo)
we’re settling on the underlying CCS technology being the standard
Given how many manufacturers have declared they’re moving to NACS it doesn’t sound like CCS will be the standard I don’t think ?
Ford, General Motors, Mercedes-Benz, Nissan, Polestar, Rivian, and Volvo have signed up.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Charging_Standard
CCS communication protocol not the port itself. Tesla only used a proprietary communication protocol, now they also support CCS communication protocol. Basically means all you need is an adaptor and everything should be interoperable.
Technology Connections just made a whole video about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJOfyMCEzjQ
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As someone who used to drive a diesel Jetta, I can confirm it was a pain in the ass.
Also cars that require higher octane can be slightly harder to find.
You mean like diesel?
I don’t ever remember seeing a gas station that sells gasoline but not diesel
Only half the gas stations in the US carry diesel as well.
Well I don’t live in the US so that probably explains why I’ve never seen one
I’ll believe it when I see it.
Honestly I’m surprised companies like Exxon, BP, and Chevron aren’t opening charging stations under shell companies with new brand names.
Shell is their competitor so it wouldn’t make sense to do it under their companies for these guys
I think they ment shell companies as in companies they own. E.g. Exxon create a company called ElectricCo and ElectricCo charging stations are what customers see.
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