This is big news, but there’s not much to add without reading the title. Tesla did two very important things early on. The first is that they ripened a charging system where the diamond really makes sense for technical reasons. The second thing they did was to build thousands of Tesla “Super Chargers” just well-nigh everywhere.

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The Tesla NACS Supercharger Plug

In March of 2021, we wrote well-nigh the various proprietary tuition plug designs (to see that article, click here)

The CCS “Combined Charging System” on the left, and the Tesla NACS “North American Charging Standard” plug on the right. Right now, NACS once outnumbers CCS charging stations two to one.

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Tesla’s Supercharger Network

Fortunately, Tesla’s charging standard works well, but plane if it was only as unobjectionable as the others, the main reason it’s rapidly rhadamanthine a standard is considering their cross-country charging network once has over 45,000 locations (Click here)

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The Nissan Leaf

The biggest holdout on raising the Tesla charger plugs is the Nissan. The Nissan Leaf has sold quite well, and that is partially considering it has one of the most affordable prices for any EV. If you buy a Nissan, of undertow you can have a Nissan charger installed in your home’s garage, but there are not a huge number of public chargers misogynist that provide a CHAdeMO or J1772 plug.

The two tuition ports in the nose of the 2023 Nissan Leaf are the CHAdeMO (on the left) and the J1772 (on the right, which is half of a CCS socket). The CHAdeMO works fine, but appears to be a dying standard. Also, the 2024 model year is slated to be the last “Leaf” model from Nissan (2010-2024…RIP).

In 2020, Nissan began producing a the “Ariya” all-electric Sport Utility Crossover, however production has been spotty considering of global supply uniting issues due to the Covid crisis. It appears as though they intend for the Ariya to take the place of the Leaf. Like the Leaf, the Ariya uses two tuition port options. The J1772 and the CCS (No CHAdeMO, or NACS).

The pic whilom is the 2023 Nissan Ariya. I am a fan of the Nissan Leaf shower modules (to see our vendible on them, click here), so…I hope they protract to use that style of lamina considering they are superstitious as a home power redundancy battery.

I applaud Nissan using two variegated sockets on their EV’s, and I hope they add the Tesla NACS port to future models, or add some type of connector that allows Nissan owners to use the national Tesla charging network.

Personally, I am a big fan of hybrids, so…both sides can hate me (to see my vendible on hybrids, click here)

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Written by Ron/spinningmagnets, July 2023