One of the biggest stories of 2023 has been Tesla’s NACS connector. Not only did Tesla offer it up as a charging standard other manufacturers could use, but it eventually managed to sign deals with many of them for access to the Supercharger network. In story after story after story, more and more manufacturers signed up.
The story of NACS in 2023 is not unlike the end of Lake Bonneville, basically a freshwater inland sea that once covered a good chunk of present-day Utah, plus parts of Nevada and Idaho. During the last glacial period, the American West was a lot wetter and colder than it is today, so there was more water in the rivers and less evaporation. Plus, a volcano erupted, redirecting yet another river into the basin that holds the Great Salt Lake today. With all of that water…
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