The long-awaited launch of the non-Tesla Supercharging possibility in america has turn out to be a actuality. The corporate introduced it formally on March 1, 2023.

The US is the seventeenth market (after 15 European international locations and Australia) the place non-Tesla Supercharging is obtainable – initially solely at choose Supercharging stations.

An important factor is that, within the US, Tesla needed to develop a particular adapter for its Supercharging stalls (natively geared up with its proprietary plug – NACS) to turn out to be appropriate with the CCS Combo 1 (CCS1) commonplace.

In Europe or Australia, new Tesla and non-Tesla electrical vehicles are appropriate natively with the CCS Combo 2 (CCS2) connector so there is no such thing as a compatibility situation (except for older vehicles/older chargers).

The answer to creating the stalls appropriate with the Tesla’s NACS and CCS1 is the “Magic Dock”, noticed for the very first time within the wild, a number of days in the past in New York.

As we will see within the video above, Tesla drivers can use the Supercharging stalls identical to earlier than, whereas non-Tesla drivers can unlock the CCS1 plug connected on prime of the NACS plug, utilizing Tesla’s app.

As soon as charging is full, non-Tesla drivers must press a button on prime of the CCS1 adapter to unlatch the plug and produce it again to the “Magic Dock”. It is a actually easy and intelligent thought.

Non-Tesla Supercharger (US) with CCS Combo 1 (CCS1) adapter

Tesla begins within the US with a small variety of websites (in California and New York, so far as we all know), which could be present in its app. The variety of stations with the “Magic Dock” is anticipated to progressively improve by way of a retrofit program. In the meantime, to get some federal funds for the charging infrastructure, Tesla will most likely set up the “Magic Dock” in all/many of the new Supercharging stations.

“We’re beginning with a choose variety of websites in order that we will evaluate the expertise, monitor congestion and assess suggestions earlier than increasing. Future websites will solely be opened to non-Tesla autos if there may be out there capability.”

It implies that the Tesla Supercharging community would possibly quickly (in a couple of years) turn out to be the US’ largest public EV charging community (beforehand it was solely out there just for a single model).

Listed below are screenshots from the video, with some levels of the non-Tesla charging course of. The customers can discover a web site and choose a specific stall (to unlock its CCS1 adapter). Then settle for the speed (costs would possibly fluctuate from station to station, in addition to the time of the day/week). There may be informative information concerning the charging course of, with the quantity of power distributed, state-of-charge (SOC), energy stage, and price.

Identical to in Europe, there are two tariffs for non-Tesla EVs:

• Pay per use: dynamic worth per kWh
• Pay per use with a further $12.99/month subscription: lowered worth per kWh
  The distinction is as much as $0.12/kWh, in line with Sawyer Merritt.

“Pricing for non-Tesla drivers displays extra prices incurred to assist charging a broad vary of autos and changes to our websites to accommodate these autos. Charges fluctuate by web site, and you may view charging costs within the Tesla app. The per kWh worth to cost could be lowered with a charging membership.”

The final situation with non-Tesla Supercharging is the bodily compatibility associated to the brief charging cable and totally different areas of the charging inlet in varied non-Tesla electrical autos.

Tesla is conscious that there could be points at some stations and a few EVs:

“Sure Supercharger web site layouts might not be appropriate for some vehicles. Please don’t impede different vehicles by parking over the strains if the cable can’t comfortably attain your automotive.”