Tesla's charging technology has been gathering momentum for weeks. Volvo on Tuesday joined General Motors, Ford and Rivian in embracing Tesla's charging design, shunning earlier efforts by the Biden administration to make the Combined Charging System the dominant charging standard in the United States.
The United States is on track to install a network of 1.2 million electric-vehicle public chargers, including 1 million Level 2 chargers, by 2030, according to a study by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, a federally funded research center. The study provided no breakdown of NACS and other types of connectors.Building out the public charging network will require between $33 billion and $55 billion of cumulative public and private capital investment, according to the NREL study.