From Tom Moloughney.
Ford’s electric vehicles gained access to the Tesla Supercharger network on February 29th and the next day I tried to use the same adapter (and a few others) to initiate a charging session on a Supercharger with my Rivian R1S and my Chevy Bolt EV.
Neither Chevrolet nor Rivian vehicles are authorized to use the Supercharger network yet – they will be soon, but I thought I might be able to trick the supercharger into thinking I was charging my Ford F-150 Lightning, so I gave it a try – actually a few tries.
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Watch a Ford F-150 Lightning charge on a Tesla Supercharger with the NACS (J3400) to CCS1 adapter: https://youtu.be/fzOBG0Shop8?si=ZPjZCcegou6KVFRY
Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:47 How I’m going to try to do this
01:55 I try to charge the Rivian R1S with the official Tesla adapter
03:08 I try to use the A2Z and Lectron adapters on the RIvian R1S
07:27 I try to charge the Bolt EV with the Tesla Adapter
08:34 I try to use the A2Z and Lectron adapters on the Bolt EV
11:14 Outro
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