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In May 2023, [[Ford Motor Company]] became the first large automaker to announce that it would use NACS with its electric vehicles.<ref name="Ars Technica 2023" /> The company announced that starting in 2025, all new Ford electric vehicles will have native NACS charge ports and starting in 2024, prior models will be able to connect to NACS chargers by use of a NACS to CCS1 adapter. Ford's announcement began a rapid shift in the industry, with many other vehicle manufacturers making similar announcements between May and December 2023.<ref name="Dow December 19, 2023" />
 
The adoption by almost all other EV manufacturers in North America is considered acknowledgement that Tesla's Superchargers were the most reliable and most widely-available, and that the design of the connector was superior.<ref name=":1">{{Cite news |last=Marshall |first=Aarian |date=February 13, 2024 |title=Tesla Wins EV Charging! Now What? |url=https://www.wired.com/story/tesla-wins-ev-charging-now-what/ |access-date=2024-04-03 |work=Wired |language=en-US |issn=1059-1028}}</ref> It also is expected to be a stable source of recurring revenue for Tesla from the other manufactuersmanufacturers.<ref name=":1" />
 
On June 27, 2023, [[SAE International]] announced that they would standardize the connector as SAE J3400.<ref>{{Cite press release |title=SAE International Announces Standard for NACS Connector, Charging PKI and Infrastructure Reliability |date=June 27, 2023 |url=https://www.sae.org/site/news/press-room/2023/06/sae-international-announces-standard-for-nacs-connector |language=en |access-date=June 27, 2023 |website=[[SAE International]]}}</ref> In August 2023, Tesla issued a license to Volex to build NACS connectors.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Lambert |first=Fred |date=August 10, 2023 |title=Tesla issues license to Volex to build NACS connector |language=en-US |work=[[Electrek]] |url=https://electrek.co/2023/08/10/tesla-issues-license-volex-build-nacs-connector/ |access-date=August 10, 2023}}</ref> The technical information report was published by SAE on December 18, 2023.<ref name="SAE J3400" />