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Detroit rivals General Motors and Ford Motor Company both announced that they signed deals to use Tesla’s supercharger network in North America starting next year.
Existing owners of Ford and GM electric vehicles (EV) can soon begin accessing Tesla’s massive supercharger network that uses the company’s North American Charging Standard (NACS) connector with an adaptor, and future Ford and GM EVs will have NACS chargers standard.
It’s a brilliant move by Tesla CEO Elon Musk. Locking up two of the biggest North American automakers effectively means Tesla’s NACS technology has emerged as the industry’s new “VHS” standard, drawing parallels to the 1980s battle between VHS and Betamax for home video standard….