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This is wild. I knew California had a large number of EVs, but are the Superchargers around there slammed that badly or is this some show-boat exercise?
Tesla might be getting ready to let other brands use their chargers.
It’s being adopted as a de facto national standard. A bunch of other manufacturers have said they’re copying the plug design
Not 'a bunch'.
Stellantis just announced it this week, which makes it every major brand with EVs in NA.
There some small players like Ferrari that haven't, but it's pretty much everyone of note now.
NACS is the US charging standard. Tesla is building out capacity as nothing kills EVs like the inability to charge. Meanwhile, it is basically just Tesla building building out NACS chargers, so Tesla is doing so.