Mercedes-Benz on Friday introduced that it’ll undertake the Tesla charging port for future EVs and a deliberate charging community in North America.

Simply as with the opposite manufacturers which have dedicated up to now—Ford, GM, Rivian, Volvo, and Polestar—Mercedes will provide an adapter in 2024 to permit house owners of present EVs to make use of the Tesla Supercharger community, adopted by the incorporation of the port in automobiles beginning in 2025.

Mercedes-Benz EV charging community

Mercedes didn’t say whether or not it deliberate to section out the Mixed Charging Commonplace (CCS) port utilized in its present EVs and solely use the Tesla port, often known as the North American Charging Commonplace (NACS) sooner or later. But it surely confirmed plans to include each ports into its deliberate North American charging community.

Mercedes introduced the EV fast-charging community for North America in January, and whereas it goals to get 2,500 fast-charging connectors and 400 North American websites in operation by 2027, it is launched few different particulars. The primary websites—which could have each CCS and NACS ports—are scheduled to open later this yr.

2014 Mercedes-Benz B-Class Electrical Drive

Previous to that, Volkswagen was reportedly purchasing its Electrify America community round to potential buyers, together with Mercedes, in an enormous to scale up. Whereas that did not occur, VW did acquire an extra funding from Siemens.

There was a deep connection between Mercedes and Tesla. Mercedes-Benz mother or father Daimler as soon as owned about 10% of Tesla, and Elon Musk as soon as mentioned at a Wall Road Journal convention: “We have been saved by Daimler.” Mercedes helped provide switchgear and different parts for earlier Mannequin S and Mannequin X. Tesla additionally equipped the powertrain for the Mercedes-Benz B-Class Electrical Drive, a compliance automotive that averted this requirements debate, in a approach, by skipped fast-charging altogether.