Texas requires charging stations to adopt Tesla NACS standard in order to obtain federal funds.

Thank you, Mr. Air, a netizen of CTOnews.com, for your clue delivery! IT House, Aug. 17 (Reuters)-Texas approved a plan on Wednesday local time: only if Tesla's NACS standard is used in electric vehicle charging, can federal funds be obtained. At the same time, however, there are still calls on the local government to give Tesla more time to "design and test" charging pile equipment.

Reported that the state is the US highway electrification of 5 billion US dollars (CTOnews.com Note: currently about 36.55 billion yuan) funding project "the biggest beneficiary", so this decision by other states closely watched.

Other states of Tuyuan Pixabay have also begun to distribute funds, and Tesla is gradually speeding up the layout with the development of the project. Tesla won a series of projects in the first round of financing announced in Pennsylvania on Monday, but won a zero egg in Ohio last month.

However, according to federal regulations, major charging service companies need to provide at least a nationally recognized joint charging system (CCS) to qualify for funding. But states can increase their requirements on top of CCS and allocate federal funds at the local level.

Unlike Texas, Florida says it will enforce NACS a year after the American Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE International) formally approved the NACS standard. As early as June this year, Texas had planned to force charging service companies to provide Tesla charging standards. Washington State had also "discussed a similar plan" and Kentucky had mandatory requirements.

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