Ford will use Tesla’s network of 12000 superchargers starting in 2024 and Ford is now committed to using Tesla’s charging interface.
Tesla and Ford might partner on more aspects in the future.
A Tesla-developed adapter will provide drivers of Ford EVs fitted with a Combined Charging System (CCS) port access to Tesla’s V3 Superchargers, according to a news release. Starting in 2025, Ford will equip future EVs with the NACS charge port, eliminating the need for an adapter.
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Every car Maker should use the same charging system. Could you imagine gas cars having to fuel at a Ford station or Toyota station?
I was thinking, how cool would it be if Gigafactories were floating structures able to be moved from a place to another. Maybe able to disassemble and reassemble as needed.
China: I don’t like Elon.
Elon: I will leave with my factories in tow. Workers can stay in the factory and continue to work for me, if they wish. We will build a seasteading for them; actually we are already building one.
..and so it ends. With the dilution and devaluation of the Tesla name and exclusivity brand. As with PCs pre-2000 as they licensed their system tech to any company, country, or random entity, so does access, ability to control tech, and adherence to tight standards diminish. Elon has sacrificed the company’s image for a milquetoast attempt at propping up a stagnating pure EV industry. Suck it up Elon and put out hybrid models. Make Ford place, fund, and tie-in its own superchargers for Tesla use – there is a time to be a master benefactor and a time to let the others wither.
Calm down. Tesla is sharing their superchargers in Europe and nobody is batting an eye, so why should it be catastrophic in the USA?
And, you do know that Tesla will be producing cheap cars from their gigafactory in Mexico, right? This means that Tesla will unlikely stay a luxury brand for ever…
I get it.
But the type of company, CEO, and brand that thrives as a ‘first out of the block’, best new tech, most whiz-bang industrial/factory production line, and ‘culture of alpha-leader’ is a completely different company and CEO for winning/ surviving in a quickly saturating, rush-to-cut-costs, and out-compete-the-other-guy ‘mature-ish’ market. Tesla wants to be the Apple of the 2000s, not the Apple of the 1990s as they appear to be here. Sharing, collaborating without obvious payments, and donating ‘for future consideration’ are bad words in Capitalism-Land.
The point of Tesla has always been to push the other carmakers into going electric. Maybe some investors have bought Tesla stock thinking it should be the Apple of any decade, but it was never the plan, at least on the automotive side of things. At any rate, the stationary storage will probably dwarf the automotive side of the company over this decade.
So no, if Tesla goes for hybrid vehicles, then it will have definitely lost its way.
+1
Nice job Ford. Hopefully other automakers jump on board the NACS train.