“Unwilling to expend the money to build their own network, automakers were left to cobble together their own out of available third-party providers.”
GM’s Ultium Charge 360 is a patchwork of Blink, ChargePoint and others. Mary Barra announced the switch to Tesla’s NACS on Twitter Spaces, the platform GM pulled its ads from in October 2022, and left before questions. The first GM car with the port arrives in 2025. Detroit spent a decade refusing to build chargers and now pays its biggest rival for the plug.