Ford’s plans to supply its electrical automobile house owners with a fast-charging adapter for entry to hundreds of Tesla Superchargers is not going as deliberate. We reported final week that Ford prolonged the deadline for its EV house owners to get the complimentary North American Charging Commonplace (NACS) adapter from June 30 to August 31 resulting from provide subject. Now Ford is saying there is a additional delay to delivering all the NACS to CCS adapters it promised.
In an e mail that went out to Ford’s electrical automobile house owners this afternoon, the automaker cited provide chain constraints for the delay. It added that the corporate was “quickly working” to extend the manufacturing of the NACS to CCS adapters and ship them to clients “as quickly as attainable.” It is unclear if which means the August 31 deadline to order a free adapter is additional prolonged.
NACS adapters for non-Tesla EV house owners.
Tesla Superchargers make for the most important and most dependable charging community within the U.S. Up till just lately, it was solely open to Tesla house owners. Some stations provided an integral “magic dock” adapter for non-Tesla EVs. However now Tesla is working with all main automakers to supply house owners with a conveyable NACS-to-CCS adapter for entry to the Supercharger community.
This is what Ford mentioned to clients in an e mail:
As a consequence of ongoing provide constraints, there’s a additional delay of your complimentary Quick Charging Adapter. We all know that is irritating. Thanks in your continued persistence.
To expedite your adapter supply, we’re quickly working with our provide base to extend high-quality manufacturing. We’re assured we may have an answer within the coming weeks. As adapter provide will increase, our aim is to work as quick as attainable to get your adapter to you.
We’ll proceed to replace you on the estimated timing of your adapter. Within the meantime, be sure to’re able to Plug & Cost with Tesla Superchargers by setting your automobile’s automated software program updates to “On.”
Final 12 months, Ford struck a take care of Tesla to open up its expansive Supercharger community in North America. Ford would first supply Supercharger entry to its clients with a NACS to CCS adapter. 2026 onwards, Ford EVs are anticipated to return with the NACS port built-in. The deal set-off a series response within the trade, with all main U.S. automakers, together with GM, Rivian and others following go well with.
Nevertheless, the Tesla-made NACS adapter rollout has been slightly gradual. A number of Mach-E and F-150 Lightning house owners whose NACS adapter supply window was June or July claimed that the supply timeline has been pushed to September. Just some Rivian and Ford house owners have acquired their adapters to this point.
“Whereas we proceed to commonly ship adapters (as we’ve since Might), we’re unable to share particular numbers or touch upon particular clients. I’ll reiterate that we’re sending them out as quick as we are able to get them and can maintain doing so,” a Rivian spokesperson informed InsideEVs. We additionally reached out to Ford, GM and Mercedes, who didn’t reply to our requests for remark.
Quick Charging Adapter (NACS)
Based on Bloomberg, Tesla is manufacturing the NACS-to-CCS adapters at its facility in Buffalo, New York and transport them to partnering automakers. Tesla fired its whole 500-member Supercharger crew early this 12 months because it pivots to AI and robotaxis. Hundreds of employees at its Buffalo manufacturing facility have been impacted by the layoffs as properly, Reuters reported. Since then, Tesla rehired a lot of those that have been fired.
The delay in bringing the NACS-to-CCS adapters, nevertheless, is impacting buyer’s shopping for selections. On Rivian Boards, a number of Rivian house owners declare that they acquired their NACS to CCS adapters about two weeks after getting an e mail notification from Rivian.
However Ford house owners are upset. “Quick charging has all the time been hit and miss within the Northeast the place I stay,” David Zachow, a Ford F-150 Lightning proprietor informed InsideEVs. “Tesla Supercharging has been a gold commonplace for reliability of lengthy distance journey. [The adapter deal] was a significant component in buying a F-150 Lightning which I did lower than per week after the deal was introduced,” he added.
It is unclear what the precise roadblock is in rolling out the NACS adapters. However till that occurs en masse, many house owners corresponding to Zachow might must pause their summer time road-tripping plans.
