Rivian is the next automaker to adopt Tesla’s charging plugs

The Combined Charging System standard's days in North America may well be numbered. That's the spec that the auto industry arrived at for electric vehicles to fast charge using DC, which combines the five-pin J1772 plug (for AC charging) with two pins for direct current. But the connector and its cable are big and unwieldy, unlike the more elegant alternative created by Tesla (called the North American Charging Standard), which has had its own walled garden of charging infrastructure for over a decade. Until now, that is, because Tesla is...