Okay, one of the kids and I are heading up a few miles to try out the Tesla supercharger with our new NACS-CCS adaptor.
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Also, with electricity being 9 cents per kilowatt at my house, I'm estimating $20-30/mth of 'gas' costs, which is down a TON from monthly gas budget.
Car covers its payment.
Which adaptor? How'd it work out? A colleague got one yesterday for her new EV and is asking me many questions, but I have an older EV without CCS so I can't really give her much info!
So I'm doing a 'learning through doing' speed run, as that's how I work best. I have a Hyundai Kona, which is CCS.
What I've learned is that I jumped the gun by buying ev-lectron.com/products/lec...
In Europe, Lectron adaptors work on any car.
In US, it's still complicated... 1/2
In the US, Tesla is doing 2 things.
1) *eventually* opening up Tesla chargers to anyone with an adaptor. Car maker sells the adaptor. But so far, they've only thrown the switch in US for Ford and Rivian. Others 'coming Q4'
2) adding a Tesla CCS adaptor (magic dock)
So we're in a weird spot right now. The adaptor in the US only works if you're Ford or Rivian. When will Hyundai be allowed in? Supposedly soon.
But there are also, mainly east and west coast, superchargers with Tesla made CCS adaptors that are slowly rolling out to all or most chargers?
Basically I jumped the gun and the adaptor will work sometime later this year for my Kona. And the chargers that have CCS adaptors that Tesla makes ('magic dock') are slowly trickling out to chargers.
