GM EVs To Access Tesla Supercharger Network Starting Next Year
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GM is stepping into the all-electric vehicle segment with 30 new EV models set to launch globally by 2025, plus the full electrification of its light-duty vehicle lineup by 2035. Naturally, all those electric vehicles will need chargers to run, and now, GM has announced that it is partnering with Tesla to provide GM EV drivers with access to the Tesla Supercharger Network. GM customers will have access to 12,000 Tesla Superchargers throughout North America beginning early next year.
GM customers who access the Tesla Supercharger Network will need to use an adapter. Starting early in 2025, the first GM EVs built with an NACS (North American Charging Standard) inlet will start rolling off the line, providing direct access to the Supercharger plug without the need for an adapter. GM also says that it will make adapters available for NACS-capable vehicles that will allow them to charge on CSS-capable fast charge stations.
The Tesla Supercharger Network will be integrated into GM vehicle infotainment and mobile apps, enabling drivers to quickly locate and pay for charging at available Tesla Supercharger stations.
“Our vision of the all-electric future means producing millions of world-class EVs across categories and price points, while creating an ecosystem that will accelerate mass EV adoption,” said GM CEO Mary Barra. “This collaboration is a key part of our strategy and an important next step in quickly expanding access to fast chargers for our customers. Not only will it help make the transition to electric vehicles more seamless for our customers, but it could help move the industry toward a single North American charging standard.”
Additionally, GM states that it will continue to invest in expanding the existing North American EV charging infrastructure, with GM EV owners already granted access to 134,000 chargers through the Ultium Charge 360 initiative.
The announcement of GM customer access to the Tesla Supercharger Network follows a similar announcement made by Ford, with the Blue Oval company recently stating that Ford EV customers will have access to the Supercharger Network starting early next year.
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I hope Tesla picks the sites wisely that’ll be available to Ford and GM because there’s already congestion building just amongst Teslas.
No congestion for cordless cars.
Drove 1,200 miles to Denver and then drove home a few weekends ago. Filled up six times. Had to wait for a pump five times. So, my anecdotal experience would say otherwise.
You would have been waiting a LOT longer for a charging station…
Here we go again, USA doing its own thing again. NACS, MPH, gallons, pounds, fluid ounces which weirdly is a measure of volume not weight, Fahrenheit. It’s 2023 please not another one!!!
Well a pound of water is about 16 fluid ounces. An American gallon at 128 fl oz is about 8.3 pound weight
We buy meat by the pound also.
I like the English system since I can easily visualize 14.7pounds per square inch.
101 kilo Pascals is harder to visualize although ostensibly the same thing.
Do you think the US will ever follow the rest of the world and go metric?
I hope not but I’m sure I’ll be outvoted.
Since we don’t make much here any longer, weights, measures and measurements in general will become less important.
Apparently gm has seen the future and has eliminated almost all technical detail from their owner’s manuals.
I’ve tried to find the most basic technical details of my cars and I’ve basically given up. Nobody knows nothing and more importantly, no one wants to know nutin.
Technically the US did declare metric as the official units of measurement in like the 70’s, but it never really took hold.
ASME standards docs for engineering drawings all went to metric, and the US gov/DOD enforces compliance to ASME as part of defense contracts.
Need some education standards to just start teaching kids metric as the primary.
This announcement is proof positive of the reality that Tesla’s leadership in charging infrastructure in the Americas EV industry is unrivalled and so far ahead of anyone else. Both Ford and now GM have come to realize that it would be absolute folly to even attempt to match Tesla’s efforts in this domain. Tesla’s points of presence in choice locations, the superior quality of the charging experience to customers, availability (they actually work versus the abomination that is Electrify America) made this deal the only pragmatic option for GM moving forward. I expect others will soon follow. I expect that the deal will mirror that of Ford’s with API access to a branded app. But I would also not be surprised if down the road that there are further deals, particularly as it relates to Tesla licensing other software components to OEMS, including FSD where Tesla is light years ahead. The reality is that EV todays are software architected computers with wheels. OEMs have NO domain expertise whatsoever when it comes to software, because that was a competency that has long been contracted out to 3rd parties. That approach of setting auto suppliers against one another to get the lowest price possible has now proven to be a major Achilles heel, because now a vehicle has in excess 150 sub-assemblies, each with their own embedded electronics, logic and software that DO NOT talk to one another. It’s one of the reasons why OTA software updates have been impossible for the OEMs to execute. Tesla, being a software first designer of many of its own internal logic boards, chips, and electronic subsystems, insourced these core capabilities years ago, and is now the reaping the fruits of those choices made a decade ago. GM has no choice but to follow the obvious industry leader. This move, though humbling for GM, gives them an improved chance for their EV business to at least have a fighting chance. I expect the other remaining OEMs to follow suit as well.
keep in mind, the infrastructure bill and IRA bill are funding 10’s of thousands of DCFC charging stations over the next several years.
And since Tesla published and opened their charging spec, all those new stations could use or have a tesla connector.
This isn’t just about Tesla’s own network. With both GM and Ford on-board and with plans to be producing millions of EVs per year by 2025, charging networks will have to adopt NACS.
This has huge ripple impacts.
@rEVolutionary
That is correct. And the first Domino is ABB
Very smart decision. From the Non Tesla DC Chargers I would say ABB is the second most reliable ones.
Tesla……Checkmate basically
This is such a huge win for all consumers!!!
“ including FSD where Tesla is light years ahead.”
😂
GM Crusise took 18months to get to 1 million fully autonomous driverless miles. The next million took them 3 months.
Tesla fully autonomous miles = 0
Tesla is ranked well behind the pack for AV.
Your claim that Tesla has zero fully autonomous miles is incorrect and easily disproven.
At its last earnings call in April 2023, the company announced that it had crossed over 150 million miles driven using the FSD beta.
In terms of miles traveled so far to date, Tesla has driven over 3 billion miles with its Autopilot system. On the other hand, GM Cruise has driven over 2 million miles., according to the latest available data.
Furthermore in November 2022, a side-by-side comparison of Tesla’s advanced driver-assist system and General Motors’ Cruise driverless car navigating through San Francisco’s streets at night was undertaken, . The two vehicles started at the same location, and both were tasked to head to the same destination.
Both vehicles were able to complete the trip without any issues, but while FSD Beta and Cruise’s driverless car started at a similar pace, GM’s self-driving robotaxi was eventually overtaken by Tesla’s advanced driver-assist suite. Ultimately, Tesla’s FSD Beta was able to complete the trip in 14 minutes 6 seconds, while GM’s driverless Cruise robotaxi was able to complete the route in 22 minutes and 24 seconds.
Perhaps in the future you should do a better job of your homework before commenting.
Beta being the key word.
With GM joining Ford in partnering with Tesla , Tesla has quietly become the BP/Exxon- Mobil of the EV world.
The other EV charging networks will slowly either fold or be absorbed into Tesla’s charging network, perhaps leaving Shell (if they finally decide to take EVs seriously). Tesla’s network will soon generate more profit than their cars in a ROI basis.
Add in Tesla’s commercial battery facilities, Powerwalls and solar roofs and they are an “energy company that also sells electric cars”.
You also need to do a better job of your homework.
The different modules in GM vehicles DO talk to each other and have for a very long time. OTA has also been happening for at least two years for all VIP (Vehicle Integration Platform) electrical architecture vehicles (CT4, CT5, T1 SUV, refreshed T1 pickups, Corvette, Encore GX, Avenir, Trailblazer, etc…). The updated Global A electrical architecture (2018 until now unless VIP) have also had OTA updates enabled depending on the update.
Ford is the one who’s modules DON’T talk to each other.
I have worked in software and embedded systems for the bulk of my career. These systems do not talk to each other. That is the fundamental difference why Tesla can offer OTA upgrades. Perhaps you should take a look at the recent interview that Jim Farley, the CEO of Ford gave that emphasized that very point. You know, when he discusses the difficulty of implementing a software defined architecture? And how, because that many subsystems have been outsourced to hundreds of third parties, where the software APIs are CLOSED and Ford would have to ask permission to make changes to gain access to those systems?
Yeah Teslas always drive under white semis. I suppose they do that autonomously.
Those are not autonomous miles. Those are miles with a driver assist package. I don’t know what autonomous means to you, but in the real world, a human keeping their hands on the wheel is not autonomous driving on the part of the car.
None of those tesla miles were without a driver constantly monitoring. And that Tesla video is joke, where the Tesla driver often urged the car forward with the acceleration pedal when it would get stuck at intersections.
Elon Musk is a modern-day John Rockefeller. Rockefeller built a network of gas stations and created a monopoly (that was eventually sort of disbanded by the Teapot Dome scandal) that distributed gasoline. Musk is doing the same thing, but he’s distributing electricity.
rockefeller bought competitors at gunpoint. Elon Musk just kept adding superchargers while at the same time improving its speed and functionality while all other automakers kept saying “EVs dont make sense”.
At least now they realized and are willing to adopt Tesla standards.
Last month, China sold more than 700,000 electric vehicles and it keeps increasing. If you are a supporter of ICE, sorry.
Amazing decision by GM.
Glad that Mary did not let her ego get in the way of a very needed decision.
This is not only great for GM the Company, not only fo their Customers, but for the entire infrastructure of the United States in this historical and extremely monumental shift of the automotive industry.
What a crazy World we live in.
Mary went from who cares about Tesla they make toys for rich people, they do not know how to mass produce, and never mentioning the name Tesla to……boy I was I completely wrong and thank God we were able to link up with Tesla. Very happy she made the correct decision for the Company. All that matters now!!!
On a personal level I am very glad to see this union happen. It is most likely the most important thing for consumers to convert to BEV’s.
I was laughed at on this site for years when I used to say that Tesla will become the most dominant Automaker years ago during the time they were selling 100,000 plus vehicles. If you were willing to look at the facts and NOT all the FUD from MSM which makes their money mostly from Big Auto, Big Pharma, and Big Oil ads then everyone could see what was coming.
Never bet against Elon is so true!!!
Guess I knew a little something after all.
I think Jim Farley deserves the Kudos for this decision. Sadly at a lot of decision between the two companies are made by the “who will blink first” method. Once Ford made the decision, GM didn’t really have a choice. Less than a month ago i was in a lunch and learn where it was explicitly stated that customer don’t care about access to a charging infrastructure since most will charge at home or at work. At the time i thought how clueless these executives are. They live in bubble where just because they don’t see a need, there is no need.
This will likely force Nissan, Hyundai, Kia, VW, ect to move over too. It also forces Chinese OME’s that want to enter the US to switch over or build their own network which is very costly.
The real winner here is Tesla. They get access to all of that sweet, sweet data from Ford and GM. It will also driver the cost of the charging port further increasing their margins, at which they are already killing us. They will gain revenue from the chargers themselves.
While i think this is the right direction for setting a charging standard. Access to only 12,000 charges is a step backwards. If you were are an early adaptor of a GM vehicle with the NACS port, you are now extremely limited to where you can charge.
The short term losers here are the other charging networks (EA/Flo/ChargePoint, ect) and the GM/Ford dealer network. They’ve spent billions installing CCS charge points which will now need to be retrofitted with either adaptors or the NACS type plug. Ultimately, this could open up Tesla revenue for them, but it’s also going to force them to become a whole lot more reliable as Tesla has set a high bar for up time at their stations.
Do you believe GM made this decision in a week? This decision has probably taken months. And there’s a good chance Ford and GM were at the table with Tesla. This benefits all of them. GM is building thousands of chargers at Pilot Flying J with EVGo. That will benefit Tesla and Ford. It saves Tesla money because they don’t have to build out everywhere.
Purely speculation on my part, but talks may have been going on for a while but once Ford agreed, whatever we were holding out for in the discussions became a non-issue. We had an all employee meeting with Mark, Mark and Paul on Tuesday and there was no mention of this coming and there was a lot of EV discussions. We’ve been deploying charge stations like crazy around various facilities and all of them are CCS. Heck, some are not even online yet.
Dominant doesn’t mean what you think it means. Tesla had slightly over 1% of the global car market last year. Even in their niche, EVs, they only lead in America.
Hey. I’m grown enough to admit I was wrong. Never thought this would happen. pretty much puts an end to CCS in North America.
You’re still wrong. EVs are just a fad. And bad for the environment.
And I’ve proven you wrong again and again about both those points. But hey, i feel bad for you if your only source of happiness is being an anti-EV troll.
It’s not just a mature decision. GM and Ford are betting that their EVs will be good enough so as to not lose customers when they park next to Tesla vehicles to charge. That’s an important milestone.
Parking next to the enemy is the ultimate insult of not owning a cordless car.
I’m thinking Tesla owners are going to be upset every time they find all their charging stations full and one or more of the stations is taken up by an other-brand vehicle.
@whypac
As a Tesla owner it will not bother me at all. I am thankful that everyone will now get to experience the simplicity of Fast charging and this will now accelerate the transition to BEV’s. I do not think people understand just how many and how quickly Fast chargers Tesla builds and puts up per month around the World. Nobody will ever catch them.
GM makes good BEV’s but I could never own a CCS BEV because I have been spoiled.
One thing that nobody is mentioning is that now there is pressure on the OEM’s to make at least 250kW charging vehicles. Heck even that speed in a couple of years will be slow.
Great news for American infrastructure. Now lets get everyone on this ASAP.
I’m located in the midwest, and have had my Tesla for a few years and I have not once run into a problem with charging stalls being available. Probably a bigger issue along the east and west coasts.
That assumes that the build out an expansion of Supercharger stations will be static, which it most definitely will not. If anything this will accelerate even further the expansion of charging infrastructure.
Plus a big ford lightning takes up 1 1/2 Tesla spaces
I’m hoping the Japan and Euro auto manufacturers (VW, Jaguar, BMW, etc) follow suit soon too.
I may be wrong on this, but i believe their charging standard is dictated by their respective governments, so they won’t likely follow.
For the imports to the USA I mean, obviously.
I think they’ll have to. They are already suffering from losing out on the IRA money.
Can’t beat ’em, join ’em.
My biggest fear of charging stations is abusing the parking slot. At a nearby mall there are about 20 Tesla charging stations. One time they were all full. Problem, is there any additional cost for idle time. Many will go to a movie at the mall, then get something to eat, meanwhile no one else can use that station?
I check out a non Tesla charging station, two of them in a parking lot next to businesses and an apartment building. One was occupied with a ICE Jeep.?
Not sure how you manage ICE taking up a charging spot. Have it towed at owners expense?
Tesla has software in place that once it’s fully charged if it doesn’t unplug within a specified window of time it continues to bill for taking up a space.
The fix for EV charging stalls being ICED is for municipalities to enact laws that create substantial fines for doing it AND the property owners (including Tesla) to post signs allowing police to enforce it. Allow any revenue created to go directly to the police departments.
What municipal government can resist a relatively easy source of income?
GM once again made a HUGE midstake by leaving the charging network to third parties. I always felt that GM should have taken a huge loan out and built their own charging network way back when they were first developing the Bolt EV back in 2013. Secondly, they should have built a huge battery factury long before they finally did. And finally, as I said before, developing the small Bolt first instead of developing an EV version of their most popular Equinox first was a huge mistake. If they had done all 3 of those things, they would be in a far better place right now. They would have a huge CCS charging network and a best selling Equinox EV and enough batteries to sell a lot of them.
I hope they give the adapter with the car. This is all a mess and nothing is cast in stone until it all takes hold. I can imagine some stupids in the future not wanting to buy a 2 year old car because it does not have a specific charge port!
Ford did not join Tesla because they were better but to save money. Ford is at a $7 Billion Dollar disadvantage to the other company EV programs. Ford is strapped for cash.
GM on the other hand needs to expand the number of chargers faster. They have been working with outside vendors and still nothing has grown much. I see this as a way for GM to expand the charging network faster and at lower cost.
The bottom line is the private charging market is reluctant to invest till there are enough cars and there may not be enough cars till there are more chargers. Something has to give.
The real issue is this. Chargers are not going to be used near as much as gas stations. Most people will be charging at home and only those traveling will generally charge away from home of people with no ability to charge. So is there really much money to be made in a charging system?
Thinking outside the box could other companies get into charging? Say Dunkin Donuts. Charge while you eat or some other types of places where you will spend some time spending money you can also power up and they can add profits.
The door is fully open here for a number of things we have never seen or considered.
The real key is to make sure everyone is standardized in how they charge. With changing battery tech that may even be difficult over time.
Chargers at dog parks along freeways. Chargers at drive-in movies along freeways. Chargers at mini-golf courses along freeways. Chargers at parks where people can go on nature hikes along freeways (well, maybe a bit inland of freeways). Chargers at ___ along freeways….
+ chargers in our garage to slow charge at night using electric at lower prices which also ensures that the power plants run constantly. This will be more beneficial for nuclear power which runs 24x 365 and also wind which blows more at night.
Everybody charging at night will still fry the grid like LSD frying the brains of liberals who believe the whole climate change lie.
Famlin :
When I make comments like yours I get down voted every time also.
I guess you and me are the only ones who care about how electricity really works.
NACS is 1/2 the size of CCS, but has 2 x charging speed means its far superior and with Tesla selling 60% of electric vehicles in N. America, it clearly sets the standard.
Ford, GM, ABB and soon all others will join. For those EVs with CCS, they will get an adapter to charge at Tesla supercharging stations. Win win for everyone.
Even Europe/Asia/Africa can adapt to these standards.
NACS doesn’t support vehicle-to-grid, vehicle-to-vehicle, or vehicle-to-load, so it will be interesting to see how Ford and GM implement that on their trucks. For Tesla, this wasn’t important because they sold Powerwalls. But for people that have outages a couple of times a year, that’s overhead.
Get a generator you don’t need powerwalls or solar junk.
This does not cancel the fact that at best you get the battery charged to 80% in 15 minutes time (not to mention waiting 15 minutes for each person that’s ahead of you in line) compared to the five minutes or so it takes me to completely fill up my gas tank. This does not include the reduced range you get with an EV compared to an ICE vehicle.
Respectfully it’s clear you’ve never driven an EV. I have never had to wait…. not even once. I can drive 4 hours on a full charge on the highway. How much longer do you need?
To add, how often do you drive further than 4 hours? I do a couple times a month and when I do its quite nice to take a 15-minute break to charge and get something to eat. Finally, the best part of owning an EV is I wake up to a full “tank” every single morning at a fraction of the cost anyone with a gas car. What people seem to not understand is when chargers have just half (or maybe less) the availability of gas stations, it really won’t make sense to buy a gas car unless maybe you’re towing 20,000 lbs. That will take some time before we have HD trucks that can get anywhere near the range the diesel 3/4 tons can get nowadays.
I don’t want my electric bill going up so no thanks I’ll stick to gas. They subsidize the electricity to get you hooked like a drug dealer. Oil companies don’t.
What?!?😂 you don’t want your electric bill going up? It’s way cheaper than gas wtf are you talking about. What koolaid are you drinking?
Haha Randy well I have 3 plug in cars but I also get mad when the electric company wastes money on dumb – make work – projects and 9 years ago tried passing through a 20 cents/ kwh rate like California or New England… I said
“That does it! I’m getting solar panels”.
So, I still use considerable electricity, but fortunately the electric company dropped rates the next month to 8 (from 20 !) cents/ kwh – what happened was the news media ran stories of rate increases for a week, and people were calling state reps, etc and while they have risen to currently 14 cents/ kwh its with a lot cheaper inflated money, and most of my juice I make myself anyway, – so I don’t enrich the local power company nor subsidize its brain-dead decisions.
I guess it is partially sour grapes for not hiring me when I was younger, but I would have probably been fired by them anyway for pointing out all the money they needlessly waste.
IROC Z – I have to be honest and admit there are problems with publicly charging plug-in cars…. Of course I live in Western NY which has about the same degree of public charging as Wyoming or North Dakota has. Any place else has plenty more, and Canadians who come across the border get frustrated when they see how few places there are to recharge.
And about half of the places don’t work right, or don’t work period… Its somewhat disgusting….
I have to admit the new Tesla Stuff is pretty good, and the new stuff will FINALLY pass an electrical inspection – an annoyance with me for years..
Most of the other public chargers should have collective egg on their face… since Gasoline stations are somewhat difficult to keep safe, but they are flawless in operation 99.9% of the time, with basically almost 100% safety…. I’ve seen a car drive into a gas pump 20 years ago when riding my bicycle and the ‘danger Island’ of dispensers TOTALLY shuts down, with fire extinguishing goop dropped everywhere. I was impressed at how safe this potentially dangerous situation is at every single gas station.
Electric Chargers are trivially easy to keep safe and functional by comparison. So why don’t they work? Bone-headed designers in charge no doubt.