Tesla Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA) CEO Elon Musk said on Thursday that though the company tried ‘very hard’ to get the European Union to consider the Tesla charging design, it refused.
What Happened: Tesla’s design is “fundamentally better in every way for consumers,” Musk said. The CEO was responding to a Twitter user asking if the General Motors- Tesla collaboration announced earlier in the day is the end of the rival Combined Charging System (CCS) for charging EVs.
“We tried very hard to get EU to consider the Tesla (now NACS) design, as it is fundamentally better in every way for consumers, but the transport minister said “a committee decided the standard years ago” (sigh),” Musk wrote.
Responding to a meme titled ‘RIP CCS’ posted on Twitter earlier, Musk said, “Thank goodness! North America will have a way better connector for charging cars than rest of world.”
Why It Matters: In a F) announced a similar collaboration with Tesla last month.
Tesla charging connector is half the size and twice as powerful as CCS connectors. NACS vehicles outnumber CCS two-to-one and Tesla’s Supercharging network has 60% more NACS posts than all the CCS-equipped networks combined, Tesla said in a blog in November.
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