Ford was the primary automaker to leap on board with Tesla’s charging commonplace (NACS), and we’re now studying how the transition from the corporate’s present CCS1 connectors to a Tesla NACS port. An X/Twitter person lately grabbed a screenshot from Ford’s on-line elements catalog that exhibits a J3400 (NACS) adapter on sale for the shockingly low value of $1.
Person @Eric_L_Roe captured the screenshot simply in time, as Ford shortly pulled the web page down shortly after. It’s potential that Ford posted the web page to generate a component quantity and transport course of for the merchandise and didn’t intend for it to be public-facing.
The @Ford J3400 to CCS adapter is now displaying up on https://t.co/TJGGZlOQTl. pic.twitter.com/rFqvBZUnxM
— Eric Roe (@Eric_L_Roe) February 21, 2024
Although it exhibits a value, the adapter will probably be free for Mustang Mach-E and F-150 Lightning house owners within the U.S. and Canada, and Ford has confirmed that its house owners can proceed utilizing its app to cost slightly than needing the separate Tesla app. They will even be capable to use their car’s infotainment system to start out a charging session.
The system seems to be quite a bit like Tesla’s Magic Dock it employs at some Superchargers to allow cross-brand charging. It could possibly be manufactured by Tesla, because the X/Twitter person identified, which, as InsideEVs identified, can be in its finest curiosity because it’s on the hook for any issues with the charging expertise.
Shifting to Tesla’s charging commonplace offers Ford house owners a wealth of recent choices to high up their EVs, and it ought to assist alleviate among the hassles utilizing subpar and sometimes unreliable third-party chargers. A portion of Tesla’s Supercharger community is already open to exterior manufacturers, and the automaker has put in its Magic Dock adapter at these places to accommodate them.
We’ll probably see different automakers providing comparable merchandise as time goes on, although near-future automobiles will include the NACS plug built-in. There’s extra excellent news for potential EV house owners, as a number of automakers have banded collectively to create extra charging networks that ought to make it much less of a trouble to personal an EV and not using a residence charging setup.