Toyota to adopt Tesla charger for North American EV models

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Toyota to adopt Tesla charger for North American EV models - The Mainichi
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NEW YORK (Kyodo) -- Toyota Motor Corp. said Thursday it will adopt Tesla Inc.'s charging standards for its electric vehicles to be sold in North Ameri

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SAE is ratifying NACS as an automotive standard. Once that process is complete Musk won’t have control over it.

https://www.sae.org/news/press-room/2023/06/sae-international-announces-standard-for-nacs-connector

I believe Tesla has already released ownership of the NACS patent as well.

I'd bet anything he still tries something. Don't forget what an enormous moron he is.

I believe Tesla retained patents on their automatic payment system. So other cars can use the NACS, but they have to use a shitty app (which is currently a MAJOR problem with BEV chargers) because none of them have figured out how to install a credit card terminal on the dang things.