Zorg
Well-Known Member
In order for CCS to win the standards war, that would require decent infrastructure. And clearly Tesla has been winning the reliability battle for a while. In the long run, I don't doubt that we will have enough reliable CCS chargers to make it work, but that's years out. Chargers take a long time to build, even for Tesla and they're by far the best in the business. Then, there is the whole issue of first mover advantage. Not all locations can support multiple fast charging stations. So Tesla may have gotten some areas locked up, at least until local grid gets upgraded.This. All signs were pointing toward CCS winning the war and Tesla caving in to at least offering CCS at the vast majority of their superchargers and having the Tesla plug stay a proprietary thing that only Tesla and Aptera had. Now we have a massive uncertainty in the market that's going to set back the industry several years and quite possibly cause very real headaches for millions of EV owners who won't know what chargers they can use, what adapters they need, etc.
The only viable long-term solution to a split market is for nearly all stations to have both plugs available. As someone else said, there are far fewer chargers out there than vehicles. It makes no sense to have everyone carrying around an adapter when that means millions of adapters instead of thousands or tens of thousands built into the stations themselves.
I suspect that we will end up with both CCS and NACS for a very long time. It's not a big deal.
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