Wello everyone, welcome and thank you for joining me on Twitter spaces and hi
Elon, thanks for joining. Absolutely, welcome to Twitter spaces. It's great
to have you, and I think everyone's really excited to care of the announcement.
Well, great, Elan. I'm I'm really excited to join and join
you on this. And you know, when you think about what's happening in
our industry, and I've been in it for forty years, this is the
most exciting time when we look at this transformation to EVS. Absolutely, I
think this is one of the great inflection points in vehicles. It's I think
comparable to really the the movie production line, and so it's a profound change
in the world. Yeah. Absolutely, And I think you and I both
know and that in order to drive ev adaption, we need to have charging
a robust charging infrastructure, and so I'm really excited to announce our collaboration with
you and with Tesla. And by the way, your team is fantastic that
we plan to adopt the North American charging standard and we're working really hard that
our first vehicle will come in twenty twenty five. To me, what's even
more exciting is that our existing EV customers can leverage the twelve thousand Tesla fast
chargers early next spring with an adapter. So I couldn't be more excited about
what this is going to do for customers and for EV adoption. That's that's
great. Um and uh, obviously one of EMI says that you have our
full support and we're incredibly excited to part with you on this. It's a
and just really make make it a fantastic electric vehicle experience, whether somebody is
driving a car from GM or from Tesla. Well, I agree, and
I think, um, you know, I think we have a real opportunity
here to really drive this to be the unified standard for North America, which
I think will even enable more mass adoption. So I couldn't be more excited.
Well, it's fantastic, So I think this, Yeah, this is
really great for consumers. UM and I'm not sure if people in North American
realized, like it's really it's much better standard and US it's only one connector
that automatic FEAT detects whether it's AC or DC, automatically adjusts with the the
current UM. And it's also it's light and easy to handle, and I
think esthetically is also profitable Um, so we're honored to have you join us,
and as I said, you will have our absolute full support. Well,
I appreciate that. I appreciate the full support. And what you just
mentioned I think is one of the key reasons why we're excited you making this
change because of the design and performance of the North American charging standard, you
know, from an ergonomic perspective and from a you know, a reliability durability.
So I think it's like I said to me, anytime you're making a
decision that is better for customers, uh, you know, it's it's better
for the company as well, better for the industry. And uh you know,
from a GM perspective, this really almost doubles access to chargers um that
GM has already made available. So uh again, this is this I think
is a really positive day for GM. I'm glad you feel it's great for
Tesla as well. And I don't if you want to say anything else,
or maybe we could take some questions. Yeah that sounds great. Um yeah,
I think questions would would would be great at do you want to do?
Want to big people? Or how should we do it? Uh?
Well, um, I think uh, if you have what why don't we
start. Um, I know, one of the questions we're going to be
asked is why is General Motors making this change now? And uh, you
know, from a from a GM perspective, as I said, you know,
as we looked at this and realized we could I uh, you know,
really address one of the biggest issues that customers are telling us is,
Hey, you know, I like EVS, but if it's going to be
my only vehicle, I need to know that there's a robust charging infrastructure.
So UM, I think this gives us a huge opportunity to to do something
that's better for customers and to drive it to be the standard. So that's
why GM's making this decision. But let's see if there's some other questions in
the chat. Great, Um, Well, it's um, I think you
have post authorities, so it's it's up to you to sort of pick someone
and invite them to be a speaker. UM. But I think, you
know, I see a lot of a lot of really um you know,
great people that have that have tuned in and know a lot about the electric
bical industry. So I think you could almost pick almost anyone and they'll have
some great questions. All right, Well, I'm looking at the chat right
now, and there's what I'm seeing is a lot of excitement, people saying
can't wait. Exciting, But there is one question coming in that says,
um, when will the dapters be available? And so you know, and
we plan to have adaptors be available to customers early next spring, and so
again this is coming soon, even though the vehicles will be in twenty five.
Let's see. Another question is what would you say to someone considering an
EV but is skeptical of the available charging And I said, I would say
that, you know, when you look at the fact that you know Tesla
and Elon, you know you have a large charging network already, and then
you know, with General Motors joining and with four the three US based auto
companies are all on one standard. And so I think that's going to drive
a lot of adoption, which I think will be really important. So for
the customer who's skeptical of an EV, I think it all just got a
little better. I don't know, what do you think? Yeah, no,
absolutely, I think this will really help people put people's minded ease,
and um, yeah, we can we can focus on one standard and it's
it's really going to be grateful consumers. Um, they just won't have to
worry about you know, which you know, which which plug, which so
could which charging station? Um? And and it'll just work seamlessly. Um.
So I think this is going to be just a really fundamentally great thing
for the advancement of electric vehicles in North America. Yeah, I completely agree.
Here's another question. Will new gm evs with the North American Charging Standard
be able to use the CCS charger? Yes, you know, I think
it is today that a Tesla consumer can do that, and those customers will
be able to use an adapter with CCS chargers. And that's why I think
this is so important because it unlocks both. But I think when you look
at the fact that Tessa already has the North American Charging Standard and now when
you look at you know, you've got two big OEMs doing it as well,
I think that that's key. That sounds great And I do want to
reiterate to Jim owners out there that you know, t Tala is not going
to do anything to prefer tells us, so it really will be, you
know, um, an even playing field. So how many people should should
feel comfortable buying a TAILS or a jam Car, and we will provide UM
support equally to both. So UM, the most important thing is that we
advanced the electric vehicle revolution. I completely agree with you, Elon and so
UM. I know you're super busy, so I really want to thank you
for taking time to make this announcement. So I think we probably should close
things out, but again, an important step for for general motors for sure.
I think something good for the customers and good for our industry. So
I really want to thank you and again shout shout out thanks to your team
as well. You're most welcome. It's an art work with you. Thank
you, have a great day. Goodbye,