Tesla will give Mercedes electrical mannequin homeowners entry to its 12,000 charging stations beginning in 2024.
Mercedes electrical mannequin homeowners will have the ability to use Tesla Superchargers in North America from 2024. Mercedes would be the first german producer to implement NACS port in its new fashions beginning in 2025. Within the first section, Mercedes will provide an adapter that enables fashions with a CCS port to additionally cost at Tesla Superchargers, and from 2025 Mercedes automobiles may even have a NACS port.
NACS (North American Charging Commonplace) stands for Tesla Charging Connector. It permits charging at each AC and DC stations as much as 1 MW and is twice as compact and twice as highly effective because the CCS charger.
Mercedes’ choice to construct NACS ports on its automobiles comes from the truth that in North America are 60% extra NASC charging stations than all CCS stations mixed.
This transfer will permit Mercedes fashions to cost on the 12,000 Tesla Superchargers in North America. On the similar time, Mercedes is constructing its personal community charging stations in North America. By the tip of this decade, Mercedes needs to construct 400 charging hubs that can embrace greater than 2,500 charging factors.
The primary Mercedes charging hub in North America will open on the finish of 2023 and will likely be geared up with each CCS and NACS ports. Because of this Tesla homeowners may even have the ability to cost at Mercedes stations.
Mercedes homeowners have entry through Mercedes me Cost software to over 1.2 million charging factors worldwide.
The plan to construct 400 charging hubs with greater than 2,500 charging stations is a part of a worldwide plan by Mercedes to have 2,000 charging hubs with greater than 10,000 charging factors up and working by the tip of the last decade in North America, Europe, China, and different main markets.
Mercedes at the moment sells 5 electrical fashions in North America: compact SUV EQB, enterprise limousine EQE, EQE SUV, luxurious limousine EQS and EQS SUV.
