Since Tesla took off with their own "Standard" the North American Charging Standard (NACS). And you have CCS which started overseas by German Engineers ( supported by Audi, BMW, Daimler, Ford, General Motors, Porsche and Volkswagen support) IN the first qtr of this year, both Ford and General Motors announced that they would transition their North American EV lines from CCS1 to the
NACS charge connector beginning with the 2025 model year. Just a confusing mess for EV would be owners and current owners. And note, the NACS is not even a real standard as its not recognized by the Standards bodies such as ISO, IEC, and/or SAE.
If the World wants to go to a EV world there needs to be standards, plain and simple. Sure Biden in Feb took off on an attempt at a charging standard with Govt support" but was limited to US manufactured cars and still no real charging standard. Its just building charging stations.
- The Department of Transportation, in partnership with the Department of Energy, finalized new standards to make charging EVs convenient and reliable for all Americans, including when driving long distances. The new standards will ensure everyone can use the network – no matter what car you drive or which state you charge in. The standards also require strong workforce standards; "" Called " Made in America Policies and New Technical Standards Support the Future of the Electric Vehicle Charging Industry, ?, but it limits the manufacturers of cars we import from other countries.
- Federal Highway Administration ; Effective immediately, all EV chargers funded through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law must be built in the United States.
- Under FHWA’s new standards, we are fixing this. The standards will ensure that:
- Charging is a predictable and reliable experience, by ensuring that there are consistent plug types, power levels, and a minimum number of chargers capable of supporting drivers’ fast charging needs;
- Chargers are working when drivers need them to, by requiring a 97 percent uptime reliability requirement;
- Drivers can easily find a charger when they need to, by providing publicly accessible data on locations, price, availability, and accessibility through mapping applications;
- Drivers do not have to use multiple apps and accounts to charge, by requiring that a single method of identification works across all chargers; and,
- Chargers will support drivers’ needs well into the future, by requiring compatibility with forward-looking capabilities like Plug and Charge.
- Hertz and bp are announcing their intention to build out a national network of EV fast charging infrastructure
- Pilot Company, General Motors, and EVgo have partnered to build a coast-to-coast network of 2,000 high power 350 kW fast chargers at Pilot and Flying J travel centers along American highways.
- TravelCenters of America and Electrify America announced that they will offer electric vehicle charging at select Travel Centers of America and Petro locations, with a goal of installing approximately 1,000 EV chargers at 200 locations along major highways over the next five years.
- Mercedes-Benz, ChargePoint, and MN8 Energy announced a partnership to deploy over 400 charging hubs with more than 2,500 publicly accessible DC fast charging ports across the U.S. and Canada.
- ChargePoint, Volvo Cars, and Starbucks announced a partnership to deploy 60 DC fast chargers at up to 15 locations along the 1,350-mile pilot route between Seattle and Denver to be completed by summer 2023.
- General Motors, in partnership with FLO, has announced a collaborative effort with dealers to install up to 40,000 public Level 2 EV chargers in local communities by 2026 through GM’s Dealer Community Charging Program
- Ford has committed to installing at least one public-facing DC Fast charger with two ports at 1,920 Ford dealerships by January 2024.
But not a word as yet on what happens when an import built in another country comes in,. Most likely these cars will come with two types of adapters, one to fit US requirements and one to fit Euro requirements
Now the Govt needs to address, the outdated power grid system in this country. I can see it now. All along I-95 and I-10 and I-75 a black out and some EV's are left dead in the water. A good ex: In September 2022, heat waves taxed the grid to such an extent that alerts went out calling for residents to cut electricity use including charging their EVs, to prevent outages. And just think when the EV semi's start rolling, City and County Fleets, Power Company Fleets all charging all the time. Oh the future !
