Mercedes-Benz adopts Tesla's North American Charging Standard
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Starting in 2024, Mercedes-Benz will offer a NACS adapter for the company's existing CCS BEVs.

Starting in 2024, Mercedes-Benz will offer a NACS adapter for the company’s existing CCS BEVs.

  • @[email protected]English
    5•1 year ago

    CCS has the benefit of working well with three-phase power – which isn’t used in North America. NACS doesn’t support three-phase power but has a more convenient form factor.

    Europe will probably stick to CCS Type 2 since three-phase power is commonly available at home.

    • @[email protected]English
      1•1 year ago

      CCS2 could certainly be redesigned to support 3 phase power in a smaller form factor if they upsized 2 of the power connectors on the mennekes plug to allow them to carry the dc current (similar to how nacs works). But it works well enough for Europe