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A recent interview with Jim Farley by Tom Moloughney at State of Charge revealed some interesting details about how the deal that changed EV charging went down.
When Ford announced that it was moving from CCS1 to Tesla’s NACS plug last year, it rocked the EV charging world. We know from past interviews on this topic that Electrify America and other charging networks’ reliability problems were largely to blame, and Ford knew that there wasn’t a good chance of a successful EV transition relying on existing CCS networks. So, the best move available was to move to the Tesla plug for future models and offer adapters.
Breaking the ice on this led just about every other manufacturer to move to the Tesla plug and network, too. This, in turn, led the other charging networks to get serious…
Read the full article originally published at cleantechnica.com.