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Beginning in the present day, Ford (F) EV homeowners will be capable to entry Tesla’s (TSLA) Supercharger community with using an adapter.
The Quick Charging Adapter — which is designed, engineered, and equipped by Tesla — shall be shipped to Ford EV homeowners who enroll by way of Ford.com. Homeowners can use their FordPass credentials, which give them entry to Ford’s BlueOval community of chargers, to enroll in the adapter.
Ford is giving homeowners one free adapter for every EV they personal, with the flexibility to buy future adapters for $230 after June 30. Nonetheless, Ford is prioritizing giving adapters out first to each Ford EV proprietor who needs one earlier than promoting further adapters. The adapters can be found on a first-come, first-served foundation. Ford didn’t say what number of adapters it could initially have on supply.
With Ford promoting over 76,600 EVs final yr — largely Mach-E crossovers and Lightning pickups — demand ought to initially outstrip provide, Ford mentioned. Ford didn’t say whether or not it could give free adapters to new Ford EV homeowners who buy autos after June 30.
As soon as homeowners have their adapter and have signed up for FordPass, accessing the Tesla Supercharger community is comparatively straightforward. Ford homeowners can use the FordPass App or the in-car Cost Help app to find one of many 15,000 Tesla Superchargers accessible, discover an open Tesla supercharger, join the adapter to the Tesla plug, and hook up with their Ford EV. The automotive will instantly begin charging, much like Tesla autos, as a result of billing data and cost prices are synched by way of the proprietor’s FordPass account.
The FordPass app or in-car Cost Help app will show charging prices earlier than use. As well as, whereas Ford EV homeowners have entry to fifteen,000 Superchargers, greater than the 12,000 initially introduced as a consequence of Tesla’s growth of its community, there are millions of older V2 superchargers that gained’t help Ford EVs.
Yahoo Finance had the flexibility to check out the Tesla-made adapter with an F-150 Lightning at a Tesla Supercharger station in northern New Jersey, and the method was easy. The adapter itself is effectively constructed and has heft, making it simpler to plug into cumbersome cost cables. The adapter slides into the Supercharger plug fairly simply, and the second you join the cable with adapter right into a Ford EV it begins charging.
Ford says sooner or later Tesla Supercharger location information shall be coming to Apple Maps EV Routing (with Apple CarPlay), Google Maps EV Routing (with Android Auto), and Ford Related Constructed-In Navigation, in addition to route planning. Sooner or later, Ford mentioned route planning shall be accessible within the Cost Help in-car app as effectively.
Ford having access to Tesla’s Supercharger community is a big benefit over non-Tesla competitors similar to GM, Hyundai, and Volkswagen, although the automaker famous softening EV demand in latest quarters. Ford has subsequently lower manufacturing for its F-150 Lighting EV and is projecting to lose over $5 billion in its EV enterprise this yr.
Pras Subramanian is a reporter for Yahoo Finance. You possibly can comply with him on Twitter and on Instagram.
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