It's great Europe chose a common standard, but the CCS plug is just a horrendous bit of design by committee IMO. The difference in size alone vs NACS (the new name for the open standard for the Tesla connector being adopted by Ford):
> In Europe you can go ahead and charge your BMW i4 on a Tesla charger.
You also can in the USA at some Tesla super chargers and new ones going forward, thanks to Tesla's new Magic Dock at the US superchargers (they now support both CCS and NACS). While a common standard would have been nicer, this is a relatively neat solution that lets a single cable work for both standards and provide DC fast charge.
> https://digitalassets.tesla.com/tesla-contents/image/upload/...
> In Europe you can go ahead and charge your BMW i4 on a Tesla charger.
You also can in the USA at some Tesla super chargers and new ones going forward, thanks to Tesla's new Magic Dock at the US superchargers (they now support both CCS and NACS). While a common standard would have been nicer, this is a relatively neat solution that lets a single cable work for both standards and provide DC fast charge.
> https://insideevs.com/news/657335/tesla-magic-dock-rollout-m...