On the whole, I don’t belief NACS to CCS adapters, or vice versa. If the automobile wasn’t designed to simply accept the cable, it’s not an amazing concept to attempt to shove electrons by any number of contraption. That’s a variety of power, a variety of warmth, and a variety of lethal flowing by that hunk of unregulated plastic. However, wants should and all that. Persons are going to proceed utilizing them, so it’s attention-grabbing that Tesla’s personal factory-accessory CCS adapter doesn’t really match the Cybertruck.
The Tesla Cybertruck’s NACS charging port is built-in into the motive force rear wheel arch, which has at all times appeared like a very weak place to place an essential piece of electrical car tech to me, however I digress. The difficulty right here, nevertheless, is that the cost port is recessed into the wheel arch cladding fender flare, which makes the factory-offered CCS1 adapter not possible to make use of with the truck.
Lots of you’ll most likely acknowledge Kyle Conner from his Out of Spec exploits on YouTube and social media. He’s most likely the man I belief essentially the most to ship strong EV testing and outcomes, and he goes to lengths many received’t—like pulling the physique cladding off of a model new Cybertruck to check its charging velocity on an Ultium-branded EVGO CCS1 DC quick charger—to get them.
Even when the fitment subject was solved, by pulling off the encompassing cladding, and the powered NACS port cowl, off of the truck to get the adapter to suit, the charger nonetheless couldn’t talk with the truck. The charger refused to cost the Cybertruck in any respect by the Tesla adapter. The one factor a charger is meant to do is cost.
It’s such an attention-grabbing side of the Cybertruck that Tesla didn’t appear to engineer the truck with the complete gamut of usability or use instances in thoughts, nor does it appear to combine notably properly into the electrical car ecosystem actuality we stay in.
Most of the Tesla sycophants will write this off as a ineffective train, as they’ll follow Tesla’s personal community of NACS chargers. There are roughly 20,000 Tesla Superchargers within the U.S. proper now, however that’s lower than half of all DC quick charging stations, most of which haven’t but upgraded to the North American Charging Normal. Should you’re caught someplace that doesn’t have a Tesla station with a Cybertruck, for now, it appears you’re shit out of luck.
I’d ask Tesla to touch upon this text, and Kyle’s unbiased charging check, however the firm doesn’t have a public relations arm to ask.