Jenny Pretare, Tesla design manager of Charging Infrastructure, said at a city planning meeting in Utah:
This is the behavior I get. I guess the button was “continue”, it’s 1 minute from when you plug in.
I’m not sure I understand what you’re saying but I’m sure Tesla can and will read some identifying info from the vehicle. My point was that you won’t be able to start a session just using the Tesla app. I believe the work that is going on to enable access is for Ford to provide the list of vehicles to Tesla and then setting up the data exchange so Ford can bill the appropriate account. I don’t expect that there will be any OTA or other update needed on the trucks.
That is my limited experience as well. After the handshake you get a Welcome Driver screen that displays the Session fee and the Price (per kWh or per-minute). Along the bottom of that screen there are buttons for Cancel on the left and Continue on the right. If you don't press anything it eventually starts charging and goes to a screen that shows charge details. But I guess they want you to know the fee before they begin and have a chance to Cancel.
I was so sure that it waited for that bar to fill up or continue to be pressed to have it move on to actually connecting and charging... If this is true then that's great.
As I said, been using it for 2.5 years and only push continue to see the next screen sooner.
We need out of spec Kyle to test this for us, and make an hour and 45 min video about it.
Your point was that the adapter can’t distinguish the car’s make/model and that Ford and GM have been designated as first. That would be a good reason why you could not use this adapter. I checked my receipt from the Tesla Magic Dock session and it did not list my VIN (bad sign), but charging a Tesla does list my VIN. EA can identify my car though, is it really that Tesla can’t or is it that they just aren’t yet because the Magic Dock is the gatekeeper so they don’t need to. I don’t see why Tesla can’t do a VIN lookup before initiating to determine Ford/GM. I think they already do that for salvage Teslas to block them from supercharging.
https://electrek.co/2023/12/18/gm-ford-ev-owners-tesla-supercharger-access-february/
He does get carried away.
. But he is really intelligent and knowledgeable about his subject matter.I'll be surprised if it's an extension - mostly for thermal management, weight, and cost issues. Worth waiting to see what's available if you're not in a big hurry for sure.
We don't know. That's for sure, but even an adapter hasn't got to fully be as capable as a supercharger as far as a supercharger cable has to be able to charge car after car after car, whereas your looking at using these adapters every couple of hours at the most. The wiring in a vehicle isn't liquid cooled, so an extension shouldn't need to be either, as well as an adapter. The wiring, connections and such have to be capable of the amperage though.
There is NO UPDATE NEEDED.https://electrek.co/2023/12/18/gm-ford-ev-owners-tesla-supercharger-access-february/
Well look at that. I missed that news. Haha but does ford actually update our vehicles within 6 months.
