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    Ford Offering Free Tesla Charger Adapter to Ford Lightning and Mach-E Owners

      Reservations open soon for the Tesla to CCS charger adapter.

    Last May, Ford was the first manufacturer to announce that they entered an agreement with Tesla to allow Ford EVs to charge at Tesla V3 SuperCharger stations and that starting in 2025, they would begin moving their vehicles to the NACS charge port.  For vehicles built in the interim, owners would be provided with an adapter to allow a CCS vehicle to accept a charge from a Tesla station.

    Ford has announced that reservations for the adapter will be open soon.  Owners will be able to register their VIN to reserve one adapter per vehicle.  At present, only Ford Mustang Mach-E and Ford F-150 Lightning owners are eligible for the adapters. We don't know where this leaves E-Transit customers, but we have reached out to Ford for comment. NACS to CCS1 adapters aren't yet available on the market, but several are in development. Such adapters going from CCS1 to Tesla typically run $150 - $250.

    Ford also plans to continue to expand the BlueOval Charging Network of over 100,000 chargers nationwide.  Ford BlueOval allows charging on multiple charge networks through a single app.

    Update: A Ford rep said that there will be a future announcement regarding Supercharger access for Ford E-Transit customers closer to launch. Updated Update: Ford E-Transit gets Enhanced Range and SuperCharger Access

    Update 2: Owners may register their VIN to receive their adapter in the Ford Pass app or at ford.com/FastChargingAdapter. Owners are allowed one free adapter per VIN.

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    G. David Felt

    The two tesla stations by me are always full, usually a couple Tesla waiting to charge. It will be interesting to see how bad the wait gets once all the OEMs are able to use the Tesla Supercharging network.

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    1 hour ago, David said:

    The two tesla stations by me are always full, usually a couple Tesla waiting to charge. It will be interesting to see how bad the wait gets once all the OEMs are able to use the Tesla Supercharging network.

    This will be a big income stream for Tesla and they are already working on a massive rollout of V4 chargers as it’s the only way to get reasonable charge speeds in the Cybertruck. There have been loads of Superchargers and other network chargers built near me in the last year.

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    G. David Felt
    43 minutes ago, Drew Dowdell said:

    This will be a big income stream for Tesla and they are already working on a massive rollout of V4 chargers as it’s the only way to get reasonable charge speeds in the Cybertruck. There have been loads of Superchargers and other network chargers built near me in the last year.

    Agree, it will be a huge income stream for Tesla. This year will be interesting as the courts struck down Musks pay package, and he is now in the new today threatening to leave Tesla and the board is scrambling. Yet comments seem to be that folks are ready for him to go and be a more normal auto company.

    I remember when I first read this back in 2023.
    Tesla opening up Supercharger network is upsetting some owners, but in line with the mission | Electrek

    The responses are interesting. 

    But with that said, I do agree that it is a good thing for Tesla, and I thought this write up from Dec 2023 that I read over my PTO was a well-done article on the opening up of the Tesla Supercharger Stations.

    Opening Up the Supercharger Network Will Be Good for Tesla (caranddriver.com)

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