The North American Charging System, colloquially known as the North American Charging Standard and officially designated SAE J3400, is the standard for an electric vehicle charging plug and port syste
Comparison of charging connectors, from left to right: J1772 (AC), NACS (AC/DC), and Type 2 (AC). Non-NACS DC connectors are larger.
A public NACS-compatible AC charging station
A Tesla Model X P90D equipped with a Tesla charging inlet, of the same style as NACS
NACS-style charging cable
CHAdeMO
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CHAdeMO is a fast-charging system for battery electric vehicles, developed in 2010 by the CHAdeMO Association, formed by the Tokyo Electric Power Company and five major Japanese automakers. The name i
North American Charging Standard
…being made an open standard in late 2022, several electric vehicle charging network operators had added Tesla charging connector adapters to legacy CHAdeMO-standard charging stations. These included the ONroute rest stop network in Ontario, Canada, where a Tesla adaptor was permanently attached to a CHAdeMO…
CHAdeMO connector (left), with the competing Combined Charging System (CCS) Combo 2 connector (middle), and the AC Type 2 connector (right)
A TEPCO branded charger in Vacaville, California, United States
A charging site in Quebec, Canada with a 50 kW CHAdeMO / CCS "combo" DC fast charger and a Level 2 AC connector.
A "combo" fast charger station with Type 2, CHAdeMO, and CCS connectors