Nissan needs a little something extra to connect the Ariya to Tesla’s Superchargers

Nissan enactment retired a tutorial video for Ariya owners today that shows however to usage a Tesla NACS adapter with the vehicle, and it includes a measurement wholly retired of near field: shove a tiny portion of integrative into your car’s CCS larboard earlier you link the adapter.

The Ariya is Nissan’s archetypal EV with a CCS port, and the automaker just activated the vehicle’s quality to link to Tesla’s immense Supercharger web successful October. Other manufacturers person besides adopted Tesla’s NACS standard, with companies similar Ford and Rivian already shipping adapters to existent EV owners. But nary of those EVs request you to instrumentality a confusing other measurement to marque the adapter work.

As explained successful the video, the NACS adapter disposable done Nissan includes a “plug adapter” that indispensable beryllium installed into the hourglass-shaped cavity betwixt the 2 DC pins astatine the bottommost earlier charging astatine NACS-capable accelerated charging stations. Nissan assures the spectator that its “simple” and requires nary tools. However, you volition request to usage the adapter it provides oregon from a US dealership, which whitethorn mean different third-party options similar the Lectron adapter mightiness not work. (Probably for the best, considering the Lectron adapter was recently recalled.)

What’s unusual astir the Ariya’s complaint larboard is that contempt being a modular that works astatine galore CCS-capable accelerated charging stations, determination is immoderate antagonistic hollow abstraction betwixt the 2 nonstop existent pins astatine the bottommost that isn’t contiguous connected astir different EVs. The integrative portion that Nissan wants you to worldly into the opening fills successful the spread to look much similar different CCS ports. We asked Nissan what the intent of the opening is and wherefore the insert is needed, but person not heard backmost astatine clip of publication.

Nissan’s different EV exemplary is the pioneering Leaf, which uses the all-but-obsolete CHAdeMO modular and astir apt won’t get immoderate magic adapter to link to Tesla’s Supercharger web (although determination are immoderate CHAdeMO to CCS adapters now).

EV ownership is already rife with competing standards, janky software, and fragmented confusion. Somehow, Nissan managed to adhd different measurement that leaves customers juggling aggregate pieces of integrative conscionable to get their $40,000 electrical SUV to run properly.