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Interest rates went way up, those who wanted an EV urgently mostly got one, and the rest of the market is going to temporarily suffer from the NACS transition.

Interest rates went way up, those who wanted an EV urgently mostly got one, and the rest of the market is going to temporarily suffer from the NACS transition. Manufacturers selling EVs without NACS should really commit to a retrofit program, as no one in their right mind would buy an expensive EV today that's using a dead-end charger plug that's both inconvenient to use in the field and has a much worse network than NACS.

sigio 3y ago
In the Netherlands, a very large part of the price of a car is the emissions-tax, which EV's don't have, so EV's are usually either cheaper or the same price as non-EV's to buy/lease, and way cheaper in running-cost, so the amount of EV's is rising quickly. For countries without high car-taxes or without EV-incentives, this could significantly hinder EV-sales.
vel0city 3y ago
Cars sold today with a CCS port will be able to charge with NACS with a passive adapter. NACS speaks the same signaling as CCS. And at the moment chargers getting NEVI funding need to have a CCS charger, so there will still be a bunch of chargers with CCS cables in the wild for a while. I have a car with CCS. I've got no worries about chargers switching to NACS.
- AYBABTME 3y ago
  It's a pretty clunky story to use an adapter.
  - vel0city 3y ago
    Yeah, I agree, but it's something I maybe do a handful of times a year. And it would be a pretty small adapter. Trivial to store it in the trunk, pull it out when road tripping. It's honestly not going to be a big deal.