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GM EVs To Adopt North American Charging Standard In 2025

GM is aiming to accelerate electric vehicle adoption, with plans to launch 30 new EVs globally by 2025 and the full electrification of its light-duty vehicle lineup by 2035. To that end, GM will adopt the North American Charging Standard (NACS) in new GM EVs starting in 2025. The NACS was originally developed by Tesla.

A Tesla Supercharger station.

“With more than a decade of use and 20 billion EV charging miles to its name, the Tesla charging connector is the most proven in North America, offering AC charging and up to 1 MW DC charging in one slim package,” Tesla writes in a blog post published last November. “It has no moving parts, is half the size, and twice as powerful as Combined Charging System (CCS) connectors.”

GM announced that it would adopt the NACS yesterday in conjunction with an announcement that GM customers would gain access to 12,000 Tesla Supercharger stations throughout North America starting in early 2024. Ford has made a similar announcement, and also plans to build EVs with an NACS port.

“Our mission is to accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable energy,” said Tesla Senior Director of Charging Infrastructure, Rebecca Tinucci. “Giving every EV owner access to ubiquitous and reliable charging is a cornerstone of that mission. We’re excited to work with other industry leaders like General Motors to provide access to the Tesla Supercharger Network via the North American Charging Standard.”

GM CEO Mary Barra highlighted the need for collaboration in pursuit of its vision of an all-electric future and mass EV adoption. The first GM EVs built with an NACS inlet for direct access to Tesla Supercharger stations without an adapter will begin rolling off the line in 2025. GM also states that it will make adapters available for NACS-enabled vehicles in order to provide access to CCS-capable fast charge stations.

GM EV owners already have access to over 134,000 chargers through the Ultium Charge 360 initiative and mobile apps.

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  1. I love the fact that a publication knows more about the goings on with Cadillac and its EV Roll out than your typical brick-and-mortar Dealership. I kinda wonder how this will affect those who already set up their in-home charging. Doesn’t this move/change pretty much make upcoming preorder/sold units, pre-2025, effectively outdated before they’re even in a customer’s hands?

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    1. DressPants777: That’s not new. I’ve worked for dealerships for about 23 years in total now starting back in 1988 to 1995, then 2007 to 2013 and finally 2016 till present. Ever since I’ve been in this business, it seems that the dealers were/are always the last to get the info. Frustrating as heck at times when customers come in knowing more than the dealership employees.

      I would agree this sounds like a brand new 2024 EV will be outdating in under a year as for plug types. But the article says they will provide adapters.

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  2. It’s pretty obvious that after Ford announced they were going with the Tesla plug, GM didn’t have much of a choice.
    Soon everyone else will have to do the same.

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  3. Nikola Tesla made Edison look like a child.

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    1. Overstatement. Plain and simple. They were both geniuses. You don’t have to hate one to admire the other

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  4. Does NACS support V2L? I know Tesla doesn’t, but the plug might. If it doesn’t, this is a huge step backwards.

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  5. Frankly, not a big deal. Adapters are currently available for both J1227 to Tesla, and Tesla to J1227 standards. I can think that Tesla owners are going to be a bit peeved as other vehicles start taking up slots at Tesla supercharger facilities.

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  6. I was told that new Tesla fast chargers in my area charge $0.50 / kWh to ‘Magic’, non-Tesla customers.

    This is slightly more expensive than the 45 cents/kWh that the most expensive ChargePoint stations charge, which some people already avoid as being super-expensive.

    I suppose they will be used in a pinch but will not be generally used.

    I wish GM would stick to past decisions in the interest of Standardization.

    No mention has been made about the power limitation of any future compatibility adapters. I would hope there is some discussion about these future complications rather than changing ‘Permanent Standards’ like CCS1 and then discarding them a short time later.

    This is reminiscent of GM greatly increasing level 2 charger power at increased cost when Zero Customers have been requesting it. The premier 2019 volts and 2017-2021 volts had perfectly fine 32 amp chargers which was the fastest of any public level 2 charger around here. Now they’ve changed to 80 amps for one year but back to 48 for the next. Constantly changing, and can’t make up their minds. Tesla still at 32 for M3

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    1. The issue is that CCS has proven to be a less convenient, complex mess. It just doesn’t work very well.
      It’s possible this could be improved over time with some updates or revisions, but the Tesla plug already works better and is available to whoever wants to adopt it.

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    2. You make many good points. I think, however, that the move to NACS by Ford and Chevy will pave the way to faster standardization. The Tesla standard is more widespread, and the Tesla design is more robust. This move will ultimately serve consumers well.

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  7. That’s 2017-2021 Bolt EVs. 2022-2023 bolt EVs and EUVs have an un-requested 48.

    Bolt owners complained about slow fast level 3 charging, but no-one complained about the 32 amp rate for level 2 since the QMERIT offer wasn’t for anything bigger.

    GM is always offering too much, or too little as compared with everyone else. GM now includes a 220 volt charging cord with all EVs except the cheapest bolt. Meanwhile the Ford Mach-E has discontinued the free (now $500) cord, and neither Tesla nor Kia/Hundai provide anything for free, not even a 120 cord.

    Meanwhile the slow fast charging of all Bolts has never improved which is the only thing people complained about.

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  8. GM will need to re-engineer where the charge port for their cars are at. The Tesla Chargers are set up for Tesla cars, meaning they mostly back in and plug the charger into the rear driver’s side of the car. Tesla also makes their cords shorter so they are not getting dragged across the ground. I’ve already watched a guy try to use the magic dock on a F150 lightning and he had the cord stretched to the max and was worried about possible damage to his charge port. The charge port for GM cars are on the front driver’s side just forward of the door. This means you’ll have to pull in forward so you’ll either drag the cord over the hood of your car or park in the next spot over and potentially be taking up 2 spots that a Tesla owner could have used. I’m sure the Tesla owners will be kind and gracious about it (Sarcasm). Either way you’ll be lucky if the cord even reaches. Plus does anyone know the specs for the architecture of the Ultium platform? Right now anything over 400v (Lucid, Hyundai, Kia) gets throttled to 50Kwh because the chargers can’t handle them. I guess we’ll just have to see what comes out in 2025, because now nobody’s gonna buy a already outdated 2024 and have to keep a adapter with them.

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  9. Confusion is – do they mean the year 2025, or the model year 2025 (which starts in June of 2024)…

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