Various car manufacturer adopted NACS (Tesla charging interface) as their preferred interface for their cars. Those manufacturers have also said that the cars they’ve already sold which use the CCS interface for charging will be able to acquire an adapter for charging at Tesla super chargers when the network opens. Ford vehicles already have access to the Tesla super charging network. GM had stated that they would have access to the Tesla charging network by Spring 2024. At the time that I’m posting this, 2024 June 12, it is only 8 more days until the first day of summer.

There have been concerns about hitting that date, especially since Tela fired the entire supercharger team. But according to InsideEVs, GM said that it was still on schedule to deliver according to its original deadline. With the first day of summer being only a week away, we will see whether they actually hit that mark.

“We plan to stick to the timeline that we previously announced, and that’s kind of all I can say,” Sanaz Marbley, director of global strategic technology communications at GM, told InsideEVs. 

As this rollout occurs, some, including myself, have wondered what this will mean for Tesla drivers. Newer Tesla chargers have much longer cables (Version 4 chargers). But many of the chargers already available have much shorter cables. These cables were meant to only power Tesla vehicles, which have their charge port in the back driver’s side tail light (Tesla drivers always back into the space). Many other vehicles have their charge port further away somewhere on the side of the vehicle. From the perspective of a Tesla charger, the port may also be on the wrong side. This results in a driver either needing to double-park for the cable to reach or use the charger on the “wrong side” from where they parked. Either situation results in two chargers now being unavailable to a Tesla driver.

Tesla states that drivers of other EVs may use the charger on the “wrong” side, as this is necessary for charging. But they ask that drivers not park diagnally. Though I can’t use the chargers yet, I drove a Chevrolet EUV Bolt to a local bank of version 3 super chargers and found that I could only reach the cable if I parked diagnally.

Interesting times are ahead at the Tesla charging banks.

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