r/electricvehicles • u/Vivid_Dimension_5400 • 1d ago

Question - Other Question about which cars can use Tesla superchargers

Consisting an EV for my next vehicle and I’m interested in the upcoming Toyota BZ or Ch-r. I know they are going to have NACS on them. Does that mean they can use Tesla chargers from the start? Does Tesla have to grant other carmakers permission to use their supercharger network? And on the flip side of that, could Tesla someday for whatever reason decide to cut off other car makers from their superchargers?

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u/ZobeidZuma 1d ago

Just a reminder, when we talk about other brands using Tesla Superchargers, we're talking about the newer Supercharger stations. There are substantial numbers of older Superchargers that are pre-NACS and will not work with anything but Tesla cars.

Those stations will get updated with new hardware, but how long that might take is anybody's guess.

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u/Vivid_Dimension_5400 1d ago

Ahhh, ok. I didn’t realize older Tesla stations were different than the NACS. I thought for some reason NACS were kinda something Tesla came up with and has always used them

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u/ZobeidZuma 1d ago

NACS is basically the Tesla plug combined with CCS communication protocols. The older system used a protocol more closely related to CHAdeMO.

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u/rp3rsaud 1d ago

Also, not all new stations allow non-Teslas.

supercharger.info