To make it less confusing they’ll be moving to the old WiFi style names. The new versions will be called, in order: USB-A, USB-B, USB-R, USB-CZ, USB-L2, USB-S,

To make it less confusing they’ll be moving to the old WiFi style names. The new versions will be called, in order: USB-A, USB-B, USB-R, USB-CZ, USB-L2, USB-S, then USB-D. To avoid confusion they’ll use the same physical port, which is now Type-C, but renamed Type-1138. USB-D is somewhat theoretical as we’re likely to go through more renaming by then. But I digress. It’s important to note each version of the standard supports both active (“o”) and passive (“u”) variants depending on distance. Power levels are a simple scale of 10^nth milliwatts, expressed as a Roman numeral for readability. So I = 10mw, II = 100mw, etc. Soon you can buy a highly advanced passive USB cable capable of delivering 10kW to your car for charging. USB-SuX.