srs5694
Active Member
There's been significant reporting on this in the EV press, but in case anybody missed it, there's a small snippet in a recent White House press release about DC fast charging developments that's relevant:
Some news articles have taken this to mean that Superchargers will begin to provide CCS1 access in North America by the end of 2022; but the precise wording is that the equipment will begin production by then. It could, of course, take a while after that before the first CCS1-enabled Superchargers open in North America; and even longer before significant numbers of Supercharger stations have this support. There's also the whole "Elon Time" thing -- although I expect that an estimate for when they can start adding CCS1 capability to Superchargers would be far easier to get right than an estimate of when Robotaxis will be roaming our streets without drivers. That said, my impression is that Tesla managed to add CCS2 support to Superchargers in Europe pretty quickly -- but of course they were motivated by the need to support Model 3 sales in that case. Here in the USA, Tesla's main motivation to add CCS1 support is to get grant money to offset the cost of building new stations, so my suspicion is that new Supercharger stations is where most of the CCS1 plugs will go, at least initially.
Of course, this is all quite speculative.
