WILL Japan adopt NACS?
CHAdeMO was developed in 2010 by the CHAdeMO Association, a charging system design from the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO). TEPCO had been participating on numerous EV infrastructure trial projects between 2006 and 2009 in collaboration with Nissan, Mitsubishi, Fuji Heavy Industries (now Subaru), and other manufacturers. These trials resulted in TEPCO developing patented technology and a specification, which would form the basis for the CHAdeMO.
(from Wiki)
CHAdeMO is a DC only standard with a rather bulky connector that barely expanded outside of Japan and in 2022 was starting to disappear in USA. Very recently Japan started to install CCS in locations (reasons?) so it practically does not exist in Japan.
Now that Nissan officially is going NACS, there is every chance NACS will be adopted by Japan. The reason is simple, why should Nissan support CCS1 when it does not exist in Japan, has a bad reputation in USA, and the current CHAdeMO is an obsolete design, when it now has a single modern extremely popular connector that they MUST install in all their cars. Honda, Toyota and rest are very late to BEV so what Nissan does will greatly influence what they do.
I think more a question of WHEN, not IF.
So, IMHO, it will happen.
CHAdeMO was developed in 2010 by the CHAdeMO Association, a charging system design from the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO). TEPCO had been participating on numerous EV infrastructure trial projects between 2006 and 2009 in collaboration with Nissan, Mitsubishi, Fuji Heavy Industries (now Subaru), and other manufacturers. These trials resulted in TEPCO developing patented technology and a specification, which would form the basis for the CHAdeMO.
(from Wiki)
CHAdeMO is a DC only standard with a rather bulky connector that barely expanded outside of Japan and in 2022 was starting to disappear in USA. Very recently Japan started to install CCS in locations (reasons?) so it practically does not exist in Japan.
Now that Nissan officially is going NACS, there is every chance NACS will be adopted by Japan. The reason is simple, why should Nissan support CCS1 when it does not exist in Japan, has a bad reputation in USA, and the current CHAdeMO is an obsolete design, when it now has a single modern extremely popular connector that they MUST install in all their cars. Honda, Toyota and rest are very late to BEV so what Nissan does will greatly influence what they do.
I think more a question of WHEN, not IF.
So, IMHO, it will happen.