Engineers get behind Tesla’s EV charging standard with new blueprint

The Society of Automotive Engineers has published its technical report that will guide car and component makers. It should make EV charging a lot simpler in the future.

The Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) has now put into writing a blueprint that carmakers and others can use to get behind a single standard to charge Electric Vehicles.

Think of this as what the car industry did to make sure gas nozzles fit into the same-sized opening to a car's gas tank. It will eventually allow drivers of any EV to pull up to any …