Non-Tesla EVs can now use some Superchargers ... it may not go well
electric pickup truck showed up. For the F-150 Lightning driver, Tesla's retrofitted charging cord was only long enough to reach the car's charging port when the driver had pulled so far up the front of his car was practically touching the charging stand and the cord was pulled completely taut — a scenario the driver said felt"too risky."
In a separate YouTube video, the same F-150 Lightning driver, Tom Moloughney, who runs EV charging channel , said he might feel more comfortable pulling his car up to the station sideways — a move that could take up three spots at once."If you're a Tesla owner it's not a good day," Moloughney said. "Soon that exclusivity of being able to drive wherever you want and plug in it's going to get more complicated because Superchargers are going to start to get clogged up with non-Tesla vehicles.
"This is probably the first time and not the last time that you're going to see this shuffling of who can charge where," Brownlee said."Hopefully people are nice about it, but there's gonna be a bit of an etiquette question when you've got cars that are not exactly optimized trying to figure it out."
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