Mercedes-Benz adopts Tesla's NACS charging standard
Mercedes-Benz is the latest automaker to adopt Tesla's North American Charging Standard (NACS). From 2024, Mercedes electric vehicles will have access to Tesla's Supercharger network in North America. But Mercedes also announced today that the company is expanding its own charging network and expects more than 2,500 high-powered chargers to be installed in North America with the first workshops opening in the last quarter of 2023.
Mercedes joins Ford, GM, Rivian, Volvo and Polestar in adopting the North American charging standard. That leaves Volkswagen, BMW, Hyundai, Toyota, Honda, Stellantis and Tata's Jaguar Land Rover as the major automakers in North America not yet offering NACS compatibility. Several states, including Texas and Kentucky, even require state-funded charging stations to use NACS.
As TechCrunch's Tim De Chant wrote, NACS is rapidly gaining momentum as automakers race to offer compatibility with Tesla's charging network.
From 2024, Mercedes-Benz will offer a NACS adapter for the company's existing CCS BEVs. Then, for model years 2025 and later, the company's North American vehicles will be built with a NACS port.
Mercedes says it is also building its own charging network with an initial plan to establish more than 2,000 charging hubs with 10,000 chargers in North America, Europe, China and "other key markets" by 2030. But that's only a fraction of Tesla's current capacity. Network of superchargers which, in April 2023, had 45,000 chargers worldwide.
Mercedes-Benz is the latest automaker to adopt Tesla's North American Charging Standard (NACS). From 2024, Mercedes electric vehicles will have access to Tesla's Supercharger network in North America. But Mercedes also announced today that the company is expanding its own charging network and expects more than 2,500 high-powered chargers to be installed in North America with the first workshops opening in the last quarter of 2023.
Mercedes joins Ford, GM, Rivian, Volvo and Polestar in adopting the North American charging standard. That leaves Volkswagen, BMW, Hyundai, Toyota, Honda, Stellantis and Tata's Jaguar Land Rover as the major automakers in North America not yet offering NACS compatibility. Several states, including Texas and Kentucky, even require state-funded charging stations to use NACS.
As TechCrunch's Tim De Chant wrote, NACS is rapidly gaining momentum as automakers race to offer compatibility with Tesla's charging network.
From 2024, Mercedes-Benz will offer a NACS adapter for the company's existing CCS BEVs. Then, for model years 2025 and later, the company's North American vehicles will be built with a NACS port.
Mercedes says it is also building its own charging network with an initial plan to establish more than 2,000 charging hubs with 10,000 chargers in North America, Europe, China and "other key markets" by 2030. But that's only a fraction of Tesla's current capacity. Network of superchargers which, in April 2023, had 45,000 chargers worldwide.
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