Ford is now delivery a brand new North American Charging Customary (NACS) adapter to prospects to assist present entry to Tesla Supercharger stations extra rapidly.
First reported by InsideEVs, the brand new NACS adapter comes from Lectron, and shall be distributed alongside the present design from Tesla. They’ve the identical specs because the Tesla-provided adapters, with scores of 500 amps and 1,000 volts, InsideEVs experiences. However they’ve a barely totally different look.
Ford Mustang Mach-E at Tesla Supercharger station
The brand new adapters aren’t replacements for the unique design, which Ford started delivery to prospects in March, however slightly an “incremental” addition to get adapters to prospects as rapidly as attainable, the automaker confirmed to Inexperienced Automotive Stories. The Lectron adapters started delivery Oct. 31, and prospects in line for an adapter could get both a type of or one of many earlier design.
Ford provided one free adapter per automobile to all new and present EV prospects who enrolled in its charging aggregator by Jun. 30 of this 12 months. Adapters are in any other case priced at $230, and Ford has arrange a special course of for fleet prospects by means of its Ford Professional division. These phrases stay in place.
Ford EVs at Tesla Supercharger
The brand new adapter can be unrelated to a substitute program being undertaken by Ford after the automaker found an issue with a selected batch of the Tesla-sourced adapters that might end in scale back charging speeds, or doubtlessly even harm to a automobile’s cost port. The automaker has informed sure prospects to cease utilizing affected adapters pending cargo of replacements, which was scheduled to begin this week.
Ford led the business final 12 months in saying a shift to the Tesla cost port, with almost each different main U.S.-market automaker following go well with. To date, although, solely Normal Motors and Rivian have additionally begun delivery adapters to prospects, with Volvo and Polestar saying plans to take action earlier this week.
