Ford offers EV owners free Tesla Supercharger adapters until July
by Andrew J. Hawkins from The Verge - All Posts on (#6JZYD)
Let me adapt that for you. | Image: Ford Starting today, people who own electric vehicles from Ford can reserve an adapter that will enable them to charge at Tesla's vastly superior Supercharger network.
The company is the first to distribute adapters to customers, after announcing last year its plans to adopt Tesla's North American Charging Standard (NACS) connector for its EVs. Other automakers soon followed Ford's lead, leading to a massive shift toward Tesla's standardized version of its proprietary charging system.
The adapter, which is manufactured by Tesla and allows EVs equipped with Combined Charging System (CCS 1) outlets to use Tesla's Superchargers, typically retails for $230. But Ford is offering the first adapter to its EV customers free of charge - at least for...