Those announcements follow decisions by GM (GM.N) and Ford (F.N) to add Tesla charging technology, shunning efforts by the Biden administration to make CCS the dominant charging standard in the United States.
Texas - home to Tesla's headquarters and a new car factory complex - is the first state which will mandate Tesla's charging technology, giving a boost to CEO Elon Musk's hope of making it the national charging standard.
"It’ll effectively make an NACS the new charging standard," Cox said.
The move was to prevent Tesla's North America Charging Standard from dominating the network.
And at least one other state is considering giving applicants bonus points on applications if they include the Tesla charging ports.
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Rivian, Tesla, Biden, Elon Musk's, Lew Cox, It’ll, Cox, Jarrett Renshaw, Hyunjoo Jin, Abhirup Roy, Lisa Shumaker
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Reuters, BTC, GM, Ford, CCS, Texas Department of Transportation, U.S . Department of Transportation, Tesla's, Thomson
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Texas, United States . Texas, California , Iowa, Michigan, U.S, Philadelphia, San Francisco