{"id":22035,"date":"2022-05-12T00:04:08","date_gmt":"2022-05-12T04:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=22035"},"modified":"2022-05-12T00:04:08","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T04:04:08","slug":"elon-musk-ccs1-plugs-coming-us-superchargers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=22035","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Confirms CCS1 Plugs Coming To US Superchargers"},"content":{"rendered":"

A big change is coming to the Tesla Supercharging network in the US (and in North America in general), as the chargers will be opened up to non-Tesla EVs.<\/p>\n

We know that the company is trying to open the network to all electric cars globally, which in Europe, is already implemented through a pilot project<\/a> (in the Netherlands, Norway and France).<\/p>\n

At the recent Financial Times Future of the Car event, Tesla<\/a> CEO Elon Musk confirmed (see at 1:03:40) that to make the network available to other EVs, Tesla will add\u00a0 the industrywide connector (SAE J1772 Combo1\/CCS Combo 1 or simply CCS1) as an option.<\/p>\n

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“It\u2019s a little trickier in the US because we have a different connector than the rest of the industry, but we will be adding the rest of the industry’s connector as an option to Superchargers in the US.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It’s not yet clear how it will be implemented, but we guess that the Supercharging stalls will be dual-head, with the Tesla proprietary connector and a separate CCS1 connector. Another theoretical way would be to have separate stalls (which complicates logistics) or some kind of adapter that’s Tesla-to-CCS1 available at the site.<\/p>\n

In Europe, the situation is much simpler, because since the launch of the Tesla Model 3, all new Tesla models (and the upcoming refreshed Model S\/Model X) are natively equipped with a CCS2-compatible charging inlet. Once the early Model S\/Model X ages (let’s say by 2030), the company will be able to stick to the CCS2 entirely (old cars can use CCS2 through a special adapter).<\/p>\n

Once the car is connected, non-Tesla BEVs can start charging using Tesla’s app. We guess that this solution will be utilized also in the US.<\/p>\n

Elon Musk does not provide any timeline of when we can expect the first non-Tesla-friendly Superchargers in the US.<\/p>\n

However, he said that this move is the right thing to do, even if it reduces Tesla’s competitive advantage of having an exclusive charging network:<\/p>\n

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“We are trying as best as possible to do the right thing for the advancement of electrification, even if that diminishes our competitive advantage”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Opening the Supercharging network to other EVs means that there will be more electric cars at the Tesla charging stations, which at popular locations might be challenging during peak periods.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, Tesla is also launching the charging adapter from CCS Combo 1 (CCS1) to Tesla’s proprietary standard<\/a>. It will allow Tesla users to use the general fast-charging infrastructure, reducing the demand for charging at Tesla Superchargers. So maybe the two effects will mostly compensate for each other and there will be no big issues.<\/p>\n

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A big change is coming to the Tesla Supercharging network in the US (and in North America in general), as the chargers will be opened up to non-Tesla EVs. We know that the company is trying to open the network to all electric cars globally, which in Europe, is already implemented through a pilot project […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22036,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-cars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}