Re: [EVDL] Charging a non-Tesla EV at a Tesla-Supercharger, NOT fun

2025-03-09 Thread Jim Walls via EV
What a difference from my experience! I'm driving a 2024 Ford Lightning which has a CCS inlet.  Although Ford will eventually send me a NACS to CCS adapter, they are massively backordered.  So I bought a recommended A2Z Typhoon Pro adapter for about $170. 10 days ago (the day the adapter arriv

Re: [EVDL] Charging a non-Tesla EV at a Tesla-Supercharger, NOT fun

2025-03-09 Thread Steves via EV
Yikes. So it took an hour to get 40% added charge at $1/kwh? So $37 to get about 100 miles? Do I get that right? So let’s say a gas car of that size would get 33 mpg so 100 miles is 3 g @ $3 /g is $9 I knew fast charger was expensive, but wow. And $1 / idle minute. I understand they don’t wan

[EVDL] Charging a non-Tesla EV at a Tesla-Supercharger, NOT fun

2025-03-09 Thread Mark Hanson via EV
Hi Folks, I tried out the $236 purchased NACS - CCS supercharger adapter today on my 20' Chevy Bolt that normally has a 50KW charge rate on Electrify America (VW) Fast Chargers. The dealer was clueless, *no* instructions in the "GM" box. Here's what I discovered: 1. Initially you *must* put the