Stellantis has announced that starting next year its EVs will feature Elon Musk’s company’s North American Charging Standard plug. The multi-national owner of, and Ram, among many others, was the last major automaker to commit to using the charging connector, meaning that it is now as close to an industry standard as we’re likely to get in this country.
“Select” Stellantis EVs released as part of the 2025 model year will feature the upcoming NACS charging connector, the SAE J3400,. Previously, the company’s EVs featured a Combined Charging System port. In the meantime, it plans to offer an adaptor to customers that will allow them to use either NACS or CCS chargers. The move comes less than a year and a half after Tesla renamed its charging technology NACS and opened up access to EVs from other automakers, according to TechCrunch.
Why now? It might be because the company’s first wave of major EVs is set to start arriving on dealer lots in the next couple of years.are Stellantis’s biggest EVs yet, at least in the U.S.. We still don’t know what Chrysler’s first EV will be but if it looks anything like the Halcyon concept you can expect it to garner plenty of attention as well. Because of this, the company wants the electric chargers its EVs can use to be plentiful and widespread.