The move Tuesday by SAE International, formerly the Society of Automotive Engineers, comes just weeks after Ford,Motors and Rivian said they would join Tesla’s large Supercharger network and adopt its North American Charging Standard connector in new versions of their electric vehicles. But a rival connector called CCS is still in thousands of current EVs and will stay in use.
CCS, he said, is much harder to maneuver and plug into vehicles than Tesla's NACS connector, he said. Most consumers who have used both would choose Tesla's connector, Abuelsamid said. The organization, he said, is not picking which connector will be used and said the industry still wants to support CCS.and Rivian have adopted it and it “looks like it's poised to become really widely used. So in talking to all of the stakeholders we decided it needs to be standardized.”