This new EV plug automatically delivers the right connection for your car

ChargePoint has a caller plug strategy for its charging stations that volition marque it easier for EV drivers to prime the close connecter for their electrical vehicle. The caller plug, called Omni Port, works by automatically installing an adapter (or excluding one) to the extremity of the connector erstwhile you’re acceptable to charge, which means Tesla owners won’t request to bring retired their adapter.

In a property release, ChargePoint CEO Rick Wilmer says Omni Port solves “the challenges associated with a aggregate connector environment” and gives Tesla and non-Tesla drivers a “world-class” experience. As North American automakers modulation to usage the caller NACS modular that’s based connected Tesla’s connector, existent drivers volition proceed needing entree to J1772 Level 2 ports arsenic good arsenic CCS1 ports for DC accelerated charging. Yeah, charging is benignant of a mess.

Omni Ports are shipping by the extremity of the twelvemonth and volition beryllium included connected caller presumption hardware, including ones with enactment for 800-volt charging. Meanwhile, owners of ChargePoint’s commercialized CP6000 and Express Plus Power Link 2000 stations tin get an Omni Port retrofit, acknowledgment to a modular design. However, don’t expect them to see the nearly extinct CHAdeMO port (although there mightiness inactive beryllium hope for Leaf owners).

ChargePoint’s Omni Port is similar the reverse of Tesla’s constricted “MagicDock” Supercharger stations, wherever non-Teslas tin unlock the charger and automatically person a CCS1 adapter extremity installed. One vantage ChargePoint has, though, is the cablegram volition scope your larboard no substance however you’re parked.