GM Electric Vehicle Owners to Receive Access to Tesla Superchargers in 2024
General Motors has joined Ford in adopting Tesla’s North American Charging Standard for its electric vehicles. During a Twitter Spaces conversation with Tesla CEO Elon Musk, GM CEO Mary Barra revealed that the company will implement the NACS open-source connector standard in all of its EVs by 2025.
As part of the collaboration, all GM EVs will gain access to 12,000 Tesla Superchargers in 2024. Drivers of existing GM EVs will not need to upgrade their vehicles to use Tesla chargers, but will need to use an adapter to make their vehicle compatible. Likewise, GM says it is developing an adapter that will allow future NACS-compliant EVs to charge at its existing network of CSS-compliant fast charging stations.
That backwards compatible charger could prove important. Tesla’s willingness to open up its charging system to non-Tesla vehicles was originally announced with a $7.5 billion Biden administration initiative to expand the availability of electric car chargers in the US — but it is heavily planning to build CCS chargers.
“This collaboration is a key part of our strategy and an important next step in rapidly expanding the availability of chargers to our customers,” Barra said in a GM statement about the partnership. “Our vision of an all-electric future means producing millions of world-class electric cars in a variety of classes and price points, while creating an ecosystem that accelerates the mass adoption of electric cars.”
