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These 12,000 additional chargers will join Ford’s 84,000strong Blue Oval charging station network.
Tesla has led the industry in creating a large, reliable and efficient charging system and we are pleased to be able to join forces in a way that benefits customers and overall EV adoption, Marin Gjaja, chief customer officer of Ford Model e, said in the release. The Tesla Supercharger network has excellent reliability and the NACS plug is smaller and lighter.
and Canada,” starting in Spring 2024, per the company release.
Because Teslas uses a proprietary charger port design for its vehicles, Ford owners will initially need to rely on a Tesladeveloped adapter connected to the public charging cable in order to replenish their Ford F150 Lightning, Mustang MachE and ETransit vehicles.
On Thursday, Ford became the first automaker to formalize that pact with Tesla, announcing during a Twitter Spaces event that “Ford electric vehicle customers access to more than 12,000 Tesla Superchargers across the U.S.