Stellantis is the latest automaker to adopt Tesla’s North America Charging Standard (NACS) port for EV fast charging—but the automaker’s announcement of it, made Monday, downplayed any connection to Tesla to a point that EV shoppers and longtime Tesla fans alike might find absurd.
A Stellantis press release doesn’t mention Tesla or NACS at all. Instead it says the automaker is adopting “the proposed SAE J3400 connector.”
That’s technically correct, as the NACS connector is still in the process of being formally standardized under the name SAE J3400. But without the focus on NACS as enabling access to the Tesla Supercharger network and its reputation for reliability, it’s arguably lost in technical jargon—and it misses the boost of confidence gained by various other automaker announcements that have included mention of Tesla.
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