"Today, GM announced three additional adapters to help EV owners charge at home or in public. And while I'm sure that GM thought it was presenting the information as clearly as it could, I can't help but wonder what normal, non-EV owners must think of all this. The new adapters are intended to help customers transitioning between the old CCS way of charging to a future dominated by Tesla charging."
"The automakers said they would begin manufacturing EVs with NACS ports built in, but non-Tesla EV owners could access Tesla's Superchargers by using CCS-to-NACS adapters in the meantime. But the changeover has been slow going. The 2025 Hyundai Ioniq 5 was the first non-Tesla EV to go on sale with a native NACS port. But to the best of my knowledge, there haven't been any others."
GM announced three additional adapters to help EV owners charge at home or in public. The adapters aim to bridge charging between legacy CCS and Tesla's NACS as automakers migrate toward NACS. Most automakers have committed to adopting NACS, citing Tesla's Supercharger network's superiority to mostly CCS-equipped third-party stations. The rollout to native NACS ports has been slow: the 2025 Hyundai Ioniq 5 was the first non-Tesla with a built-in NACS port, and GM's Cadillac Optiq-V will be its first with one later this year, followed by a 2027 Chevy Bolt. In the interim, a growing family of dongles includes CCS-to-NACS adapters, a NACS-to-J1772 Level 2 adapter, and additional adapters for forthcoming GM NACS-equipped vehicles.
Read at The Verge
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