It has been a very long time coming, however Tesla has lastly begun to open up its Supercharger community to permit non-Tesla EVs to cost in North America. We traveled 100 miles to the Brewster, New York, Supercharger location to check the brand new “magic dock” interface on a 2022 Ford F-150 Lightning, shortly after Tesla enabled it.
Eight Tesla Supercharger places in New York and two in California have been outfitted with the magic dock improve and are open to be used. Extra are anticipated to return on-line quickly, however Tesla is not offering data on the place and when that may happen.
Tesla magic dock supercharger
Homeowners of electrical automobiles with CCS DC quick cost ports that need to entry the magic dock Superchargers must first obtain the Tesla app and enter a bank card for billing. From there they will verify the map for places and get instructions.
As is the case with Tesla Supercharging for Tesla house owners, the price will fluctuate from location to location. Nonetheless, we discovered that all the New York places apart from Pink Hook are charging $0.49 per kWh, with Pink Hook at $0.51, and Each California places value $0.52 per kWh.
Tesla Magic Dock Supercharger places:
New York
- Brewster
- Pink Hook
- Malta
- Hancock
- Verona
- Parish
- Batavia
- Fredonia
California
- Scott’s Valley
- Placerville
However Tesla can also be providing a membership that prices $12.99 per 30 days which gives decreased charges. With the membership. all the New York places value $0.39 per kWh and the California places value $0.42 per kWh.
As a comparability, we pay $0.31/ kWh (going as much as $0.36/kWh on March sixth) on the Electrify America community with a $4/month membership charge.
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In addition to having hassle reaching the cost port with the brief Supercharger cable, the charging session went off completely. Utilizing the app may be very easy, and the automobile related and started charging in a short time.
The CCS adapter turns into locked to the Tesla connector as soon as a person permits a charging session from the app. Earlier than that, the Tesla connector will be eliminated to cost a Tesla automobile with none prior motion. As soon as it is locked, the person has to push the connector ahead into the dock barely, and the connector with the adapter is then launched.
To finish a charging session you’ll be able to both cease charging from the automobile or from the Tesla app. You then merely press the connector lock tab to launch it from the automobile and holster it again into the Supercharger’s port.
We charged the F-150 Lightning from 25% to 80% in a number of charging periods and the charging price began out at 125 kW and peaked at 128 kW earlier than reducing to 115 kW at 80% state of cost. That is not as excessive a cost price as we see with the Lightning on Electrify America or EVgo stations, however with such a flat charging curve from 25% to 80%, it will in all probability solely take about 5 minutes longer to cost on a Tesla Supercharger than it does on the opposite networks.
Ford F-150 Lightning parking sideways at a Tesla Supercharger so the cable can attain the cost port
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The brief cable is a giant situation, one which we think about Tesla is already planning to treatment come what may. Non-Tesla automobiles will usually must take up two Supercharger stalls as a result of they are going to be plugging into the supercharger meant for the adjoining stall – and that is if they will get the cable to achieve their cost port.
If it does not attain the inlet whereas parking inside the stall, they might want to park diagonally and occupy two or three parking spots, which is able to seemingly trigger frustration and attainable confrontations with different customers.
Nonetheless, all the pieces else went off completely and it was an general excellent charging expertise.
So try the video and tell us your ideas on this subject. Are you cheerful to see Tesla lastly start to open entry to different EV makes, or are you in opposition to the transfer since you consider the general public charging expertise for Tesla house owners will endure?
