A big change is coming to the Tesla Supercharging network in the US (and in North America in general), as the chargers will be opened up to non-Tesla

Elon Musk Confirms CCS1 Plugs Coming To US Superchargers

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2022-05-12 02:00:07

A big change is coming to the Tesla Supercharging network in the US (and in North America in general), as the chargers will be opened up to non-Tesla EVs.

We know that the company is trying to open the network to all electric cars globally, which in Europe, is already implemented through a pilot project (in the Netherlands, Norway and France).

At the recent Financial Times Future of the Car event, Tesla CEO Elon Musk confirmed (see at 1:03:40) that to make the network available to other EVs, Tesla will add the industrywide connector (SAE J1772 Combo1/CCS Combo 1 or simply CCS1) as an option.

"It’s a little trickier in the US because we have a different connector than the rest of the industry, but we will be adding the rest of the industry's connector as an option to Superchargers in the US."

It's not yet clear how it will be implemented, but we guess that the Supercharging stalls will be dual-head, with the Tesla proprietary connector and a separate CCS1 connector. Another theoretical way would be to have separate stalls (which complicates logistics) or some kind of adapter that's Tesla-to-CCS1 available at the site.