In a Twitter Spaces chat with Elon Musk, Mary Barra, CEO of General Motors, said that GM’s electric cars will use Tesla’s NACS charge standard by 2025. In the spring of 2024, adapters will be ready to let GM cars with CCS plug into Tesla Superchargers. The information became public soon after Ford said it would switch to Tesla’s charge protocol and give adapters to owners of cars with CCS. It could be more apparent if other car companies, like Stellantis, Rivian, and Lucid, will keep using CCS or move to NACS. Barra says that after the switch, GM cars will still be able to use CCS-based chargers with an adapter, just like Tesla cars can now. Musk and Barra agreed that GM’s moves would lead to more people having access to chargers, making more people buy EVs. It will need to be clarified for some people about who owns what and may even irritate those who run charging networks. The Supercharger network run by Tesla is much more established than those run by Chargepoint, Electrify America, or EVGo. Also, boost stations are much more reliable and last a lot longer. It makes sense that well-known car companies would want to use it. A recent announcement says that GM dealers will add thousands more Level 2 chargers, slower than Tesla’s Superchargers or high-speed chargers like the ones most charging networks use. Barra did not say if these chargers would keep their NACS or CCS ports. You should buy an adapter as soon as you can. You’ll need both if you want your EV to be as helpful as possible. At the moment, the United States has two ways of charging.
