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Originally Posted by redpoint5
Interesting. On an EV forum, the consensus was that CCS was the de facto standard, and Tesla could either abandon their design now, or a little later.
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CCS is a standard that is controlled by a standards committee. Every manufacturer except for Tesla uses it today. Tesla’s plug is proprietary and until last year it wasnt open other manufacturers to use without giving Tesla all of their own patents. Of course nobody took them up on that.
What changed was last year the feds said to get federal money for chargers the charger had to have a CCS plug. With that the writing was on the wall for the Tesla plug. So Musk opened up the Tesla plug to anyone without the poison pill. They also said they would hand off control of it to a standards committee and now it has been announced that SAE is that committee. With those changes other automakers are open to using the Tesla plug.