OK. I'm going to inject a little politics into this. Not major.
So: At one point last year Biden called all the major BEV manufacturers and the people who built public chargers to the White House and, more or less, demanded that they all stop fooling around and let all cars charge everywhere, already. Report was that Musk agreed in general.
Now there's this Congress & Administration driven bit of legislation that has funding for building BEV public charging systems, but
only if those charging systems meet certain requirements. The ones I think I've heard of are:
- Card readers
- CCS connectors, as a minimum
- Meter readings to tell one how much the charging costs?
So, here goes Tesla and Ford and it's (supposedly) going to be NACS all the way. Which.. doesn't exactly fit with that "CCS Connector" requirement.
Further, I had the distinct impression that, with Tesla being the front-running in terms of DCFC installs, there seemed to be a certain flavor from Everybody Besides Tesla of, "Let's slow Tesla down so Everybody Else Can Catch Up!", supported by Biden's fairly obvious support of unions, what with Tesla not being unionized. OK, OK: At the time of this handshake deal, there was the impression that the Tesla connector was proprietary (i.e., not put together by a standards committee), so, proprietary isn't exactly a
good thing, in general.. except that Tesla was promising not to enforce patents and all that.
The 800-lbs gorilla is, then, the federal government. Are they going to object to this seismic shift in charging systems? Are they going to let Tesla and Ford set a de-facto standard for the country based upon NACS? What happens if GM joins the party?