Honda adopts NACS from 2025
Honda will use Tesla’s North American Charging Standard (NACS) from 2025 in the US. Like other carmakers who will adopt the Tesla plug, Honda will offer adapters so that EVs launched before 2025 can also use the Supercharger network in North America.
The announcement does not come as a surprise: Both the Honda Prologue and the ZDX from Honda’s Acura brand use General Motors’ Ultium platform. GM declared in June that it would install Tesla’s charging port from 2025.
Honda and GM are also part of an automaker consortium that announced its own HPC network for North America in July. Seven carmakers – namely, BMW, General Motors, Honda, Hyundai, Kia, Mercedes-Benz and Stellantism – joined forces to set up the charging network, announcing that it will have CCS and NACS plugs. The first charging stations of the merger are scheduled to open in the summer of 2024 in the USA and later in Canada.
While the global standards development association SAE has not yet declared NACS to be a standard (though Tesla has applied for it), it seems to be a mere formality. Since Ford was the first to announce that it would offer its EV with NACS from 2025 back in May, a number of carmakers like GM, Rivian, Volvo and Mercedes have followed. Moreover, several states, such as Texas and Kentucky, require charge point operators to be eligible for federal funds. Washington and Florida are looking into similar measures.
Tesla released the design of its proprietary Supercharger connector in North America in November 2022 and invited car manufacturers and charging network operators to use Supercharger plugs and sockets in the future to make its system the charging standard in North America.
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