Nissan Ariya spells end of the road for electric vehicle charging “plug war” - CCS charging ports may prevail for DC charging now

The majority of EV manufacturers (including Tesla outside of the US) adopting the CCS (Combined Charging System) as the standard for DC charging plugs and sockets – the days of the CHAdeMO DC charging standard appeared numbered.

Along with the announcement of the new Nissan Ariya EV came the slightly more quiet one that the Ariya will come with a CCS charging port – thus signalling the end of the EV charging ‘plug war’. Until now, Nissan has been the major proponent of CHAdeMO – so the swapping of camps by Nissan is big news.

Imagine if gasoline/petrol/diesel vehicles could only fill up at every 4th filling station because the nozzles all differed. A standard must prevail.

The AC plug war ended some time ago with all manufacturers adopting the Type 2 standard (outside of 110V AC countries like the US and Japan), it is now a simple ‘mopping-up’ exercise for the remaining EV manufacturer using CHAdeMO (Mitsubishi) to also decide to make the change.

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The new Nissan Ariya EV will come with CCS charging port, signalling the end of CHAdeMO and the end of the so-called EV charging plug war.

source https://gadgeteer.co.za/nissan-ariya-spells-end-road-electric-vehicle-charging-plug-war-ccs-charging-ports-may-prevail-dc