Jeep manufacturer Stellantis on Monday announced it’s pulling the plug on the Combined Charging Standard and will implement Tesla‘s North American Charging Standard for all its future electric vehicles.
Stellantis said customers can expect Tesla charging ports on all future electric Jeep, Chrysler and Ram models, which the car company expects to roll out in the U.S. by 2025.
“Customers win when the industry aligns on open standards,” the company said in a statement. “We are happy to announce our backing and adoption of the SAE j3400 connector, a milestone for all customers on the path to open and seamless charging.”
With the NACS ports in their cars, Stellantis customers will soon have access to Telsa’s 12,000 charging stations in the U.S.
Stellantis is the last major automaker in the U.S. to accept the NACS. When Tesla opened up the availability of the port in 2022, large firms jumped at the chance to have access to the company’s charging infrastructure. Both General Motors and Ford, along with smaller automakers, accepted the NACS last year.
Now that virtually every popular EV maker in the U.S. is united on charging format, the process of building up the country’s charging infrastructure will likely be much faster. A coalition of U.S. automakers, including Stellantis and GM, are working on installing around 30,000 fast EV chargers on U.S. highways by 2030.