General Motors joins Ford in ditching CCS ports in favor of Tesla NACS for future electric vehicles

Coming just over two weeks after Ford and Tesla announced that they would be working together to bring Tesla's NACS charging hardware to Ford's future EVs, General Motors (GM) has revealed that it would be replacing the CCS ports on its EVs with NACS ports (via CleanTechnica). The change won't happen immediately, but GM has committed to bringing NACS to its EVs by 2025 — around the same time Ford expects to have NACS-compatible EVs rolling off the production line.

While it had been several months since Tesla announced its intentions to open the NACS charging standard used on its Superchargers, until Ford made waves with its announcement, only Aptera had joined Tesla in using NACS. With the dust only just settling after Ford announced its collaboration with Tesla, another electric car company has already joined in on the move, and it wouldn't be surprising to see even more manufacturers jump on-board in the coming months.

While CCS certainly has its issues, Ford's move to join Tesla using NACS has resulted in mixed responses from the rest of the industry. CharIN responded with hostility, while Electrify America was more neutral. FreeWire, on the other hand, announced that it would also be installing NACS charging plugs on new electric vehicle chargers.

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