Our big unanswered questions about the switch to Tesla-style EV plugs

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The mass sponge EV charger plug migration continues to gather steam. Since we last wrote about the topic, first Polestar and then Mercedes-Benz also announced that they’re dropping the Combined Charging Standard 1 (CCS1) connector in favor of Tesla’s North American Charging Standard (NACS). Sometime next year, non-Tesla electric vehicles from those makes, as well as Ford, General Motors, Volvo, and Rivian, will be able to start making use of Tesla’s Supercharger network. In 2025, those automakers—and probably a few more—will start building cars with NACS ports built in.

It’s not just the car makers.

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