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Tesla debuts Alaska’s first Magic Dock Supercharger
Sep
Tesla’s pilot program permitting non-Tesla electrical autos (EVs) to cost at Superchargers has grown because it first started testing {hardware} earlier this yr. The automaker just lately added its Magic Dock {hardware} to a Supercharger in Alaska, making it the state’s first station that includes seamless charging for EVs with the Mixed Charging System (CCS) {hardware}.
The Magic Dock has been added to a Supercharger in Chugiak, Alaska, as proven on Tesla’s Supercharger location web page (by way of InsideEVs). The station options eight of Tesla’s V3 Supercharger stalls, and the location’s description says it’s additionally open to non-Tesla autos with CCS charging {hardware}.
Though that is the primary Supercharger in Alaska that lets non-Tesla EVs cost, the corporate debuted its Magic Dock chargers in Canada final month, featured at Ontario stations in Deep River and North Bay.
You can even see a handful of areas within the U.S. which have the Magic Dock {hardware} by filtering Tesla’s Supercharger map view by “Superchargers Open to Non-Tesla.” Most look to be scattered in California and New York, with single websites in Utah, Texas and Michigan.
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To make use of the choose Supercharger areas with a non-Tesla automobile, customers can merely scan a QR code on the charging stalls to tug up directions on connecting to the CCS charger. The automaker has additionally launched the same at-home model of the Magic Dock known as the Universal Wall Connector.
The continued growth of Tesla’s Magic Dock pilot additionally comes forward of a number of automakers enacting plans to construct their subsequent generations of EVs with Tesla’s North American Charging Standard (NACS) port, which is able to give them entry to all Superchargers. A number of automakers have adopted the tools, successfully making a unified charging commonplace for the continent.
Tesla initially opened its charging tools to the general public final November by way of a blog post, including that the transfer was “in pursuit of [their] mission to speed up the world’s transition to sustainable power.”
Though EV startup Aptera was fast to undertake Tesla’s commonplace not lengthy after it Tesla introduced it, different automakers took some time to comply with swimsuit. In Could, Ford CEO Jim Farley introduced plans to adopt the NACS hardware on a Twitter Areas name with Tesla CEO Elon Musk, and several other other automakers, charging companies, and even states have hopped aboard within the months since.
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