NACS Adapter Now Available + Ford EV Owners Can Now Charge on Tesla Superchargers in U.S., Canada! 🙌

[mkhuffman]

I will never live in HOA where they can tell me what I can and can't put on my roof, what color I can paint my house, or the type of plants I can have in my front yard. That sort of overreach is just too much.

See, your libertarian streak is coming out! Encourage it, don't suppress it! ?

I definitely identify with your sentiment, but our neighborhood is full of colonial houses and the restrictions have meant all the houses are very consistent with the colonial theme. It definitely is a very nice result, even if the restrictions are significant.

Best place to put the panels is where you get the most sunlight for the longest time. In northern latitudes, that means facing due south. Sadly, for me, I don't have a lot of space on the part of the roof that faces mostly south. So I ended up with an array that faces 116-degrees (kinda south-east). It works well enough. The north-west facing side of the roof has shading issues in mid to late afternoon that makes it not cost effective to put panels there. Mostly caused by a large hill across the street from us.

My house faces west, and I have a 8/12 roof pitch on the main house, a really good placement for solar panels. The rear faces east, so I could get some good sun in the morning. But the roof pitch means it will be brief, and I am not sure how much production I can get out of a panel.

I am planning to put a couple panels up just so I can see how much I can get out, and then I can figure out what to do next. I really, really would like to power half the house off the grid purely on solar. I think I can as long as I have the NG powered furnace, water heater and range. The water heater uses zero electricity, and the range about as close to zero as you can get. The furnace has a blower that uses about 400W when running, and the downstairs AC uses about 400W when running. Pretty low, actually. Then add in the refrigerators, wired/wireless network, security system and lights...

You have to add everything up and then you realize, holy crap I need a lot of batteries!

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[manicsubmersion]

https://a2zevshop.com/products/nacs-ccs1?variant=43186507579592


https://ev-lectron.com/products/lectron-vortex-plug-tesla-supercharger-nacs-to-ccs-adapter

There is a Youtube channel called State of Charge. The owner of the channel had videos on both third party adapters and has actually used the adapters to charge his Ford Lightning. The Lectron adapter in not shipping for a couple of weeks (I have one on order and emailed the company on estimated shipping times). Not sure of the shipping time for the A2Z.

 

[cknasaboy]

FYI for others, I was getting error messages when trying to Reserve every day since they announced the adapter - but finally today yielded success!

 

[stlippert]

Done! Assuming the order numbers are sequential, I appear to be #71.

My order number is FAE:90048067. Can you translate? BTW, they are telling me I will receive it in August.

 

[Jimrpa]

My order number is FAE:90048067. Can you translate? BTW, they are telling me I will receive it in August.

We’ve been assuming the order numbers are sequential and based on the digits following “FAE:9”. If these assumptions are correct, you’re order 48067.

 

[generaltso]

My order number is FAE:90048067. Can you translate? BTW, they are telling me I will receive it in August.

That means 48,066 people ordered before you.

 

[woody]

Since I am #15,331 with an estimated June shipping date, I must assume, if I get one, it will be after June and will have to pay $250+ for it.
Ford only sends me emails trying to sell me something. Nothing regarding recalls (not even the HVBJB recall, although my VIN was listed and the dealership performed it). Only found out about some recalls after the MME was in the "shop" for other things.
So I only found out, too late, about the NACS adapter on this forum. I do not spend much time(comparatively), although much more time than I should, on this forum.
I get OTAs much after you privileged guys do, sometime as much as a month or more later. Sometimes that is advantageous. I am alerted to the failures most of the OTAs introduce and I think some of the flaws are corrected by the time those of us in the bottom of the barrel have received more recent OTAs.

We may not ever take the risk of a road trip with the MME, but we still plan at least one per year.

One of the reasons we purchased our EVs was less things in an EV that could go wrong compared to an ICE vehicle. The MME has spent more days in the "shop" than all of our ICE vehicles(over a score of them) combined. And the MME is our first vehicle we could not risk taking a road trip.

Have fun driving in your car.

 

[stmache]

@woody, you won't have to pay for it if you don't receive it after June, you had to order it before June 30th to get it free. Sorry you have had issues with your Mach-e. Mine spent a lot of time in the "shop" to get the initial BlueCruise so I understand.

 

[canuck1975]

I finally got mine in this morning #56276 shipping in October. RIP.

 

[WOKEPONY]

August for me. I’m having PTSD like when I ordered a new bronco during “supply chain” issues

 

[Pitts2112]

#14,738 here, also June estimated delivery date

 

[kodiakng]

at least it looks like tesla is producing adapters faster than cybertrucks. ?

 

[AlpaChino]

I've seen quite a few videos of MME's pulling as close as possible to Tesla superchargers and getting dangerously close to clipping/rubbing the curb. I added two of these ramps today to my frunk so I'm prepared when roadtripping this summer. They sit cleanly at the bottom of the frunk, flat, in the large rectangular area.

Not too tall, but just enough to get clearance over most curbs I think. When my adapter gets here, or if I come across a v3 station, I'll give them a shot and share a few photos. Yeah, it might get a chuckle out of some folks but I'm not risking ramming into a curb or stopping just ahead of it and not getting enough cord length.

 

[mkhuffman]

I've seen quite a few videos of MME's pulling as close as possible to Tesla superchargers and getting dangerously close to clipping/rubbing the curb. I added two of these ramps today to my frunk so I'm prepared when roadtripping this summer. They sit cleanly at the bottom of the frunk, flat, in the large rectangular area.

Not too tall, but just enough to get clearance over most curbs I think. When my adapter gets here, or if I come across a v3 station, I'll give them a shot and share a few photos. Yeah, it might get a chuckle out of some folks but I'm not risking ramming into a curb or stopping just ahead of it and not getting enough cord length.

This is a good idea. It just makes public charging suck in yet another way. But still, good thinking on your part. I might do this as well.

 

[Dzrhino]

Finally called Ford Customer Support as I couldn't get to the reservation screen. Apparently, the server has been up and down for a week from overload. They said to try again on Monday. The young guy on the phone told me the orders have exceeded their expectations, way over 50K.

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