Most automobile companies around the world will adopt Tesla NACS terminals starting in 2025
The U.S. White House is exploring ways to promote electric vehicle sales to respond to climate change. As part of this, the charging terminal specifications of all electric vehicles in the United States are expected to be standardized to those of the American company Tesla.
According to the Associated Press on the 19th (local time), the Society of Automotive Engineers International (SAEI) confirmed Tesla’s charging terminal as the standard standard for charging electric vehicles in North America. SAEI announced last June that it would set this charging terminal, known as NACS (North American Charging Standard), as a standard.
“The new standard ensures that any vehicle or charging equipment supplier can use, manufacture or distribute charging terminals and expands charging access for current and future electric vehicle drivers across the country,” the Joint Office on Energy and Transportation said in a statement. “He said.
It is analyzed that standardization of charging terminals will be helpful to the Biden administration’s electric vehicle distribution policy. U.S. President Joe Biden has made decarbonization of transportation a top priority and has set a goal of filling 50% of new car sales in the U.S. with electric vehicles by 2030.
Tesla decided to open part of its electric vehicle charging network earlier this year and plans to provide at least 7,500 chargers to vehicles from manufacturers other than Tesla by the end of 2024. Afterwards, almost all global automobile manufacturers, except for a few companies, decided to unify the charging standards for their electric vehicles into NACS.
American automobile companies such as Ford and General Motors (GM) have announced that they plan to provide compatible adapters to customers driving electric vehicles that are not equipped with a NACS terminal by 2024. Most of these automobile companies plan to officially apply NACS charging terminals to their electric vehicles starting in 2025.
Immediately after SAEI’s announcement, German automobile company Volkswagen, which has not yet adopted the NACS standard, also announced that it will convert its charging terminals to NACS starting in 2025.
Previously, last October, Korea’s Hyundai Motor Group also announced that it would apply NACS charging terminals to all electric vehicles sold in the United States starting in the fourth quarter of 2024. Accordingly, Hyundai Motor Group’s electric vehicles will also be able to charge at approximately 12,000 Tesla-specific charging stations across the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, as well as all other charging stations that use NACS charging terminals.
Source: Donga
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