Ford is offering its own Tesla Supercharger adapter to EV customers after rocky rollout

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Ford is making its ain branded specialty adapter to alteration Tesla Supercharger entree for its EV customers. The automaker volition connection its caller adapter alongside the existent Tesla-produced 1 for customers inactive awaiting a complementary adapter and volition commencement shipping it today.

The adapters are being manufactured by EV instrumentality proviso institution Lectron, which has already made its ain “Vortex” NACS to CCS adapters. Lectron had to callback its adapters antecedently owed to a plan flaw wherever it could unlatch portion charging.

Lectron’s CEO Christopher Maiwald said successful a State of Charge interview that the occupation had been fixed. In an email to The Verge, PR typical for Ford Eddie Fernandez wrote that the caller adapters are not connected to the ones Ford asked customers to halt using. “The noted replacement adapters affected arsenic portion of that lawsuit restitution programme were a tiny information of the wide supply,” Fernandez said.

Tesla has been slow to marque capable of the adapters for organisation to automakers who person pledged to follow NACS arsenic the EV connector modular (also known arsenic SAE J3400). Meanwhile, Ford has recovered dilatory charging issues with immoderate of the existent adapters it has circulated to customers and has asked immoderate radical to halt utilizing them and await a replacement.

Ford is the first of the automakers to springiness EV customers entree to Tesla’s immense Supercharger web and supply the NACS to CCS adapters for free, followed by Rivian. Most recently, Volvo and Polestar started selling adapters to its customers for $230. GM besides went the non-complementary way and is selling its adapter for $225.

Ford precocious launched its Power Promise run to assistance EV “fence-sitters” accommodate to the lifestyle, offering a escaped location charger with modular installation.

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