GM’s new adapters reflect the increasingly confused reality of EV charging

Today, GM has announced three additional adapters to help EV owners load at home or in public. And even if I am sure that GM thought that he presented the information as clearly as possible, I can not help asking myself what normal owners and not EV must think of all this.

The new adapters are intended to help customers in the transition between the old way of invoicing CCS to a future dominated by the burden of Tesla. The vast majority of car manufacturers have undertaken to adopt the NACS standard for the load, recognizing that the Tesla super-cargeur network is superior to the third-party reload terminals mainly equipped with CCS that exist today.

Motor manufacturers have said that they are starting to make electric vehicles with integrated NACs ports, but the owners of VE Non Tesla could access Tesla super-chargers using CCS-TO-Nacs adapters in the meantime.

But the change was slow. The Hyundai Ioniq 5 2025 was the first EV Non Tesla to be sold with an indigenous NACS port. But to my knowledge, there were no others. GM says that its next Cadillac Optiq-V will be its first EV with a built-in NAC load port, but this vehicle will not be available until later this year. The Chevy Bolt 2027 will also have an native NACs port next year.

In the meantime, there is a growing family of Dongles to contact this strange and intermediate place in which we are currently with the EV load. There are typical CCS-NACC adapters that most car manufacturers sell to their customers. And now there is the NACS-TO-J1772 adapter for level 2-J1772 load part of the CCS socket used for slower load. And when GM begins to produce electric vehicles with native nacs ports, there will be two other available adapters: Dongles J1772-NACS for slow load and CCS-NACS for a quick load.

Here is the infographic of GM which “explains” all this:

Again, what is a normal person, without EV-but perhaps-Curieux-to think of all this? Will they really abandon the warm embrace of gas pumps for this hell from the adapter? Make no mistake, I am happy that GM offers more adapters to its customers for more flexibility for all levels of load. It is undeniably a good thing.

But we already know that the EV load can be a bit of a shoemaker. The owners of electric vehicles have complained of different load speeds, types and networks of non -standardized traffic jams, a lack of price transparency for the charge of the public and communication problems between the car and the charger. It improves, and most people who do most of their house at home should not have too many problems. But if you try to bring new people into experience, it’s not useful.

I fear that the growing list of adapters that owners of electric vehicle vehicle vehicles buy to take into account any load scenario could be an important roadblock on the path of the adoption of the EV – the one that is already strewn with significant obstacles. I try to imagine my mother, who has a Ford Mustang Mach-E and who struggles with the basics of the functioning of smartphones, sailing all these adapters on the road to Palm Springs to visit her friends.

It’s a lot to ask! Hopefully there is a whole world of simplified EV in charge just above this next hill.