I had just finished writing about how the intention to buy a battery electric vehicle (BEV) was dropping in the US when Rivian announced it would be the next car company to adhere to the North American Charging Standard (NACS). Not only that: it will also have access to the Supercharging network, which is what really matters in all these deals. As disconnected as these two facts may seem, they are closely related: this collective surrender to NACS is a desperate attempt to escape a charging crisis in the making.
Just think about it: those companies are planning to sell millions of electric cars. To get there, they have to ensure their customers will be able to charge easily anywhere they go. If they didn't, it would be like trying to sell fuel cell vehicles (FCEVs) without a hydrogen network: people would not buy them. That's a risk a larger scale of BEV sales will inevitably bring.
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