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indigomirage@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

What are the options for adapters to let you charge an existing Bolt EV, at a Tesla station?

To date, I’ve only ever needed to charge at home, but am curious.

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BombOmOm@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Supposedly in Spring 2024, Bolts will have their integration complete and you will be able to purchase a CCS2 to NACS adapter that will allow your Bolt to charge at a Tesla charger.

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Nollij@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Right now it’s not good, but NACS was also just announced. Part of that announcement included adapters, which should start to become commonplace soon. They do exist, and it looks like they’re $200. Some supercharger locations also have one.

At the risk of sounding like Black Mirror, some chargers will have adapters, others will expect you to bring your own. I plan on getting one when they become reasonably available, probably next year.

But note that there are some additional minor wrinkles, such as battery chemistry, voltage, and adapter limits that we may have to deal with until everything standardizes.

It will get better though, and I think it’ll be pretty soon

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- Zippy@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  It will get better but I think soon is 10 years away. We don’t even have common charge ports on phones and legislation is not going to give advantage to a single specific company yet.
  
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  - Nollij@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    10 years is a long time, almost the lifespan of most cars. By that time there will be very few exceptions. Almost every car and every charger will be NACS.
    
    But “good enough” will happen much sooner, where most cars can use NACS (via adapter) and most stations will have adapters to J1772/CCS.
    
    At 10 years, I expect most stations will stop having adapters, since few cars will need them.
    
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    ryathal@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    The average age of cars is 12.5 years in the US. 10 years isn’t much for cars.
    
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IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Do Bolts support DC fast charging? Because that’s how Tesla Superchargers operate.

If they do then you would need an adapter from NACS to CSS and you’d also need to set up a Tesla account. Superchargers are “automatic” in that they read the VIN of the car when plugged in and use that for billing. I believe Tesla is now supporting non-Tesla accounts but haven’t looked into it at all…

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