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Ford (F) has formally rolled out charging adaptors for its electric vehicles, permitting customers to plug their vehicles into Tesla (TSLA) superchargers within the US and Canada. Present Ford EV clients can reserve a free charger earlier than June 30; after that, it would value $230.
Yahoo Finance Reporter Pras Subramanian joins the Stay present to debate his expertise with the adaptor and what this might imply for Ford homeowners shifting ahead.
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Editor’s notice: This text was written by Nicholas Jacobino
Video Transcript
JOSH LIPTON: Beginning in the present day, Ford EV homeowners will have the ability to entry Tesla’s supercharger community with using an adapter. Yahoo Finance’s Pras Subramanian, checked it out firsthand and joins us now for extra. Pras.
PRAS SUBRAMANIAN: Yeah so a 12 months in the past, surprising information when this was introduced when Elon Musk went on Twitter Areas with Jim Farley, and so they talked about this deal. And now right here we’re with– in the present day’s the primary day you’ll be able to really use an adapter. So I went to a location in New Jersey right here with a Tesla supercharger location. They usually supplied an F-150 lightning right here for me to check out the method.
So the precise adapter itself and I’ve some video of that it is really made and is engineered designed and made by Tesla to be used with this car. And principally what occurs is you plug it into the Tesla charger and now you may have the flexibility to plug– that plug into the F-150 or the Ford EV. And it instantly begins charging. There is not any app. There is not any– I acquired to arrange my factor. I acquired to kind this in. I acquired to search out the charger. No. Similar to for Tesla, it really works seamlessly for Ford.
And that is actually a pleasant factor as a result of when you account arrange within the FordPass, it is all good. It appeared comparatively straightforward to make use of. Good heft there with that adapter. And look, it should make– it is a bonus for Ford being the primary automaker to make use of this, to have the ability to entry this community. I believe it is a aggressive benefit that lots of people are going to wish to really contemplate after they do not wish to purchase a Tesla. However they wish to use that charging community.
– To return to one thing we had been discussing with our Akiko Fujita yesterday, what in regards to the time it would take to cost a Ford? And is it totally different from the time it would take to cost a Tesla on the similar station?
PRAS SUBRAMANIAN: Identical, relying on the automobile’s skill to principally consumption a excessive voltage cost. And the lightning can try this. It will be– it is simply as quick as another automobile based mostly on their voltage of the system. So it must be wonderful.
– OK. Good to know. Thanks Pras, recognize it. Love the footage of Pras doing that.
