Farley to Musk: Where are those 90,000 adapters? [Yahoo Interview: Farley on EVs, NACS Adapter, New Detroit HQ @ Michigan Central Station]

[Sikkun]

Guys,

I understand the frustration. I can tell you that once you get the adapter; it is Awesome. I used it this past weekend for the 1st time; even went a little out of the way to use the Supercharger. It was delivery juice to my car with in 3-4 seconds. I stopped at 3 different SCs and all 3 no issues pulling up close enough and getting electrons within seconds. I never had a failure or had to move to a different stall.

In all fairness, I also used EA on the way home (Spartanburg, SC Sam's Club) and it connected on the 1st try and charged the car pretty well. However, I'm like a dog at the pound that has been beaten; the hand goes up to pet me and I wince and hide (that what it is like pulling up to an EA station). Hopefully it fades over time.

Good Luck to everyone and let's hope Musk keeps his promises to Ford and to us by extension!!!

You managing to get close enough without taking two spots?

Only Tesla I’ve tried so far had a pull through charger so I just did that because it was easy.

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[ChasingCoral]

You managing to get close enough without taking two spots?

Only Tesla I’ve tried so far had a pull through charger so I just did that because it was easy.

Except for the side-mounted chargers, it isn't about getting close enough. The cable barely reaches when you park with the left-front corner tapping the Supercharger. The only way to get closer is to drive behind it or over it.

 

[highland58]

Argh, I was not aware there is a discount code!!!!

They gave me a $19.70 refund - yay!

 

[Bikespace]

Guys,

I understand the frustration. I can tell you that once you get the adapter; it is Awesome. I used it this past weekend for the 1st time; even went a little out of the way to use the Supercharger. It was delivery juice to my car with in 3-4 seconds. I stopped at 3 different SCs and all 3 no issues pulling up close enough and getting electrons within seconds. I never had a failure or had to move to a different stall.

In all fairness, I also used EA on the way home (Spartanburg, SC Sam's Club) and it connected on the 1st try and charged the car pretty well. However, I'm like a dog at the pound that has been beaten; the hand goes up to pet me and I wince and hide (that what it is like pulling up to an EA station). Hopefully it fades over time.

Good Luck to everyone and let's hope Musk keeps his promises to Ford and to us by extension!!!

This is accurate. The adapter was a real game changer. Other than pulling into a V2 charger, which specifically don't work, before I learned the trick to find the V3s, I've only had one failure. That was when the power was out to the whole block, so not really Tesla's fault. Otherwise, plug in, walk away, come back to a charged car! I've only used EA once since, and it faulted out on the first try.

Perhaps Ford will ship the adapters with a USB stick to install a BlueCruise update. Soon (TM).

 

[silverelan]

Well, this sealed it for me. I pulled the trigger on an A2Z adapter. If Farley has to resort to texting Elon, then June deliveries for the Tesla adapter are hosed.

 

[AhardFSU]

• "We have a 100,000 applications for the [NACS] adapter."
  
  If thats the case, and Jim is asking Elon for 90k of them, then as somebody with an order in the 3000's range, does that mean mine will be here soon? Wishful thinking, I know, but hoping it holds true lol

If they do have orders for 100k adapters......ehhhh....all I can say is good luck. Especially, when you consider that there are other automakers that need their adapter orders fulfilled by Tesla. Not to mention the gutting of the supercharger team that was tasked with the NACS and adapter rollout. It's a mess ya'll.

 

[AhardFSU]

Do people still think Tesla will put any further effort into any of this? Like you seriously do? Has any manufacture gained access since the layoffs? Any adapters ship? Tesla will walk away now that others are building out NACS.

A big fat NO. I think that T will struggle to onboard the remaining automakers that signed onto NACS.

 

[67 Stang Convertible]

You managing to get close enough without taking two spots?

Only Tesla I’ve tried so far had a pull through charger so I just did that because it was easy.

No, I split 2 chargers like kicking a field goal. None of the SC was extremely busy, so it was no big deal. A couple of glances from the Tesla people, but a Rivian came and charged as well. I think the Tesla people are getting used to the idea.

 

[Mrn]

Elon is a weird, entitled, earth shaker. We may not get any adapters out of Tesla Motors until he gets his 56,000,000,000.$ paycheck.??.

 

[ChasingCoral]

This is accurate. The adapter was a real game changer. Other than pulling into a V2 charger, which specifically don't work, before I learned the trick to find the V3s, I've only had one failure. That was when the power was out to the whole block, so not really Tesla's fault. Otherwise, plug in, walk away, come back to a charged car! I've only used EA once since, and it faulted out on the first try.

Perhaps Ford will ship the adapters with a USB stick to install a BlueCruise update. Soon (TM).

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[Jiji]

Has anyone done the math on Jim Farley’s statements? 100k adapter requests, already shipped a “couple” thousand, waiting on 90k additional adapters.

Could it be that Ford has the June deliveries in the bag? Could just be ~8000 adapters are being prepped for shipment as you read this post.

Sorry but I accept no responsibility for your sadness or dismay if my math is suspect. /s

Edited to add the sarcasm tag so no one takes this seriously.

 

[ChasingCoral]

This is accurate. The adapter was a real game changer. Other than pulling into a V2 charger, which specifically don't work, before I learned the trick to find the V3s, I've only had one failure. That was when the power was out to the whole block, so not really Tesla's fault. Otherwise, plug in, walk away, come back to a charged car! I've only used EA once since, and it faulted out on the first try.

We drove almost 6,000 miles in our Lightning pulling a travel trailer from Maryland to Texas and back for the eclipse. Unlike last year's trip (towed the same trailer to CA and back), this year we had access to Tesla Superchargers. I agree completely that superchargers work better, charge faster and provided access to parts of the US we would not have been able to reasonably reach with CCS alone.

Fortunately, v5 of the FordPass app is also much more responsive so it is much easier to use it to monitor charging stops.

 

[ChasingCoral]

Has anyone done the math on Jim Farley’s statements? 100k adapter requests, already shipped a “couple” thousand, waiting on 90k additional adapters.

Could it be that Ford has the June deliveries in the bag? Could just be ~8000 adapters are being prepped for shipment as you read this post.

Sorry but I accept no responsibility for your sadness or dismay if my math is suspect.

As I said in post #58:

Listen to the interview. Farley isn't doing parts order accounting. He says "I think we have 100,000 applications for the adapter"

 

[Jerrytball]

Well, this sealed it for me. I pulled the trigger on an A2Z adapter. If Farley has to resort to texting Elon, then June deliveries for the Tesla adapter are hosed.

If I don’t get mine by the end of June, I’ll order as you did and if I ever get mine I’ll sell one or trade for modification help if I buy something I can’t install ?

 

[Dear_OP]

I've rooted against NACS since Day 1. I do not think kow-towing to Tesla is gonna work out well for these car mfg. You are basically surrendering major control of an absolutely critical aspect of EV ownership to a rival company.
My hope is for the other charging companies to quickly upgrade/change their connectors to NACS. Or not. Just make them as reliable as the Tesla SCs!

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