You've been duped. There's no such thing as a supercharger adapter yet. When (if) it does come out, it'll probably be pretty pricey, since it needs to convert two fundamentally different signaling protocols between CCS and a CHAdeMO-like protocol.
That was a lie, IMO. Supercharger access can only be provided by Tesla. Ford has no ability to give their cars access to the Tesla network.
Rule #1: never listen to a car salesperson. They are there to talk whatever crap they can to you to get you to spend money on a car. That's it.
Ah, OK. Maybe the salesperson was talking about this type of adapter, although a supercharger adapter would be much more useful. I thought Tesla had opened up their superchargering network to non-Teslas but it looks like it's still a pilot program in Europe.
None of that statement is true. No tesla adapter will ever be free to a non-tesla car buyer from anyone, but you might be confused about charging. There are 2 "kinds" of charging: AC charging and DC "fast" charging. The Tesla superchargers are fast DC chargers and no adapter is yet available on the market to adapt a tesla supercharger to the US version of non-tesla DC fast charging that For and everyone else uses. There are things like a "teslatap" that adapt slower tesla-style AC chargers (called destination chargers) to our cars, but they are hundreds of dollars
Thanks. Are Tesla superchargers in Europe different bc it looks like Tesla has opened up its supercharger network to non-Teslas in Europe as part of a pilot program, so there must be some type of adapter over there.
To be fair, he was kind of speculating and might have been referring to a teslatap type adapter, but we were talking about how Tesla was going to open up its supercharger network so I assumed that's what he meant.
Yes. In the US it is called "Common Charge System #1" and in Europe "Common Charge System #2". The difference is because here in the US the common outlet voltage is 120 volts and in Europe it is 240V - with the connection coming in from the utility being twice that voltage.
Yes, but in Europe Tesla had to start including the CCS2 connector on their cars. So I believe Tesla has both kinds of connectors on some of their European superchargers, but here in the US they don't.
