Rivian Joins Forces with Tesla, Embracing Their Charging Standard for EVs

Re:Rivian Joins Forces with Tesla, Embracing Their Charging ... by marsokod on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @01:46PM (#36407683)

> In that world, Tesla would have had to switch their cars over to CCS eventually and retrofit their existing chargers to CCS, and people who bought Teslas with the proprietary plug have a terrible UX of needing adapters everywhere.

It should be noted that in any case Tesla will have to support CCS, though in its CCS2 version. It is the de facto standard in Europe and is in the process of making their chargers in Europe fully compatible since the M3 comes with CCS2 by default here. And it is unlikely to change any time soon, CHAdeMO is dying here and all the other networks are using CCS2 (which seems to be much better than CCS1 if I trust the complaints about CCS1 I read on HN).

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Re:Rivian Joins Forces with Tesla, Embracing Their Charging ... by vidarh on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @01:56PM (#36407897)

In fact Type 2 or Combo2 (CCS2) is an EU requirement for the charging stations so while you can offer alternatives, all new charging stations must offer of those two.

Directive 2014/94/EU:

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL...

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Re:Rivian Joins Forces with Tesla, Embracing Their Charging ... by marsokod on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @02:18PM (#36408240)

Yes. CCS2 has not technically won yet as being the default port for all EVs in Europe, but any other option would have to have significant advantages over CCS2 to win, features that a potential CCS3 version would not be able to support.

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