Chief Product Officer, Nathan Yang of Canadian EV charging provider FLO announced Friday that the Quebec-based company will offer the Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) designed North American Charging Standard (NACS) EV connectors at their over 90,000 charging stations.
Yang wrote in a statement released to the press Friday:
"FLO welcomes initiatives to standardize charging hardware in North America because we believe it will help eliminate confusion for EV drivers. Ultimately, the increased adoption of the NACS standard relates both to its widespread use by EV drivers and the reliability of stations that currently offer NACS. FLO is an industry leader in reliability, offering a 98%+ uptime. With our objective of delivering the best EV charging experience for users, we are committed to supporting the technologies and standards our drivers want to use.
FLO is vertically integrated, which means we have great flexibility to adopt the standards that customers prefer. This, coupled with our flexible platform approach to hardware, software and network design and engineering allows us to rapidly adopt new technology and standards.
Our new stations, including the NEVI-compliant FLO Ultra fast charger are already designed to support NACS cables if requested by customers or site hosts.
We are committed to providing the best charging experience for all drivers and plan to announce an option for customers with existing stations to be able to add NACS on compatible stations."
The announcement follows similar news that both General Motors (NYSE:GM) and Ford (NYSE:F), two of the biggest automotive companies in North America, would also be adopting the NACS as a standard on their vehicles starting in 2025.