Polestar is the latest EV maker to announce a move to Tesla's North American charging standard

Swedish electrical conveyance shaper Polestar said Thursday that it has signed a woody with Tesla that volition let drivers of its EVs to complaint astatine astir 12,000 Tesla charging stations successful North America starting adjacent year.

New Polestar vehicles sold successful North America volition travel modular with the Tesla-designed North American Charging Standard, oregon NACS, plug starting successful 2025. Owners of existing Polestars volition beryllium capable to complaint astatine Tesla's Supercharger stations with an adapter starting successful mid-2024.

Polestar's woody follows an identical 1 announced by firm sibling Volvo Cars on Tuesday. Ford Motor, General Motors and Rivian person besides announced akin deals with Tesla successful caller weeks.

"We salute the pioneering enactment Tesla has done to velocity up the adoption and summation the popularity of electrical vehicles, and it's large to spot the Supercharger web being made disposable successful this way," said CEO Thomas Ingenlath. "This determination volition greatly summation the complaint of EV adoption successful a cardinal automotive region."

Most non-Tesla EVs and charging stations successful North America usage a plug plan called CCS, which stands for Combined Charging System. Recent studies person recovered that CCS charging networks person much little reliability than Tesla's network. Critics person besides noted that the CCS fast-charging plug is importantly larger and heavier than the NACS plug, making it hard for immoderate older oregon disabled drivers to use.  

Tesla EVs tin usage CCS chargers with an adapter, but presently lone Tesla EVs tin usage Tesla chargers.

Tesla's plug plan was proprietary until November, erstwhile the institution published the method details of its strategy and made it available to different automakers and makers of EV chargers.

SAE International, an engineering radical that publishes standards for the car industry, said earlier this week that it is successful the process of penning nationalist standards for Tesla's NACS charging plug.