All things Soon.
PSA: Please use the charger furthest to the right then start stacking up from there. Even better, if there’s an open spot to the right of the charger make sure to park there for your charge. That way non-Teslas never block more than one space and potentially zero chargers get blocked.The rest of the world catches up.
Why not make it another ala cart item for the new cars. I mean $800 a year BC, surely you'll pay another $400? For this hunk of plastic.
But the way they come off is what I don't like. They act like others are dumb for thinking differently. When I read the original tweet my educated guess was that they were going to be free. He said they would send every owner of their EV's an adapter. To me, the "everyone" more likely implied free than charging for it. If they charged for it "everyone" wouldn't be receiving one. I think it was always their intent to ship them free of charge to current owners. They want their EV owners to be happy and to make fast charging more available and less complicated. This will cost them some money but will only benefit them in the long run.
Does it solve the rear end bounce?
To be fair, there was at least one interview published with Ford’s charging director (I think it was on State of Charge), and he stated on camera that we would have to buy the adapter after being specifically asked. Buying them was the plan for long time. But apparently Farley ordered a change to complementary fairly recently. Those that said it wasn’t going to be free were reiterating the facts shared by Ford employees at the time. Can’t really blame people if they were told wrong, or if the plan changes last minute. It was not speculation.
That was my first concern - although I don't intend to use Tesla SCs very often, when I do charge on one I'll probably default to a 'stay in the car' strategy while charging.
this pic shows a lock and release catch on the NACS side:
