Ford received 100,000 NACS adapter applications but short on supplies

Ford CEO, Jim Farley said his company has received around 100,000 customer requests for Tesla’s NACS adapter to charge their vehicles via the Supercharger network.

NACS is a charging standard developed by Tesla for North American electric vehicles (EVs) and is available for public and home charging. Last year, Ford announced an agreement with Tesla to provide Ford EVs access to Superchargers across the U.S. and Canada.

Under this agreement, Ford EV models from 2021-2024 are eligible to receive a free NACS adapter to charge via Tesla Supercharger. It requires no software upgrades or other hardware changes except the charging adapter. In February, Ford opened free NACS charging adapter reservations for Ford Mustang Mach-E and F-150 Lightning.

Customers of these two EVs can reserve an adapter until June 30, 2024, with an active BlueOval Charge Network account. Only one free adapter can be claimed per EV. These adapters are being served on a first-come, first-served basis but may vary on delivery time.

Applications and Supplies

Since opening reservations, Ford has received around 100,000 requests for NACS charging adapter. However, the company only shipped a couple of thousands revealed Farley during Yahoo Finance’s Opening Bid podcast.

He revealed that the supplies are short and the company still has 90,000 NACS applications to fulfill. However, he’s in contact with Tesla CEO, Elon Musk to help produce more adapters to fill these reservations. Early users revealed that the use case of the NACS adapter is to plug in and start charging.

Rivian

Following Ford, EV maker Rivian also joined the Supercharger network. Recently, the company started shipping these adapters to Rivian owners. However, Rivian’s NACS adapter reservations are open until August 2, 2024.

Other than these, many automakers joined the Supercharger network and will rollout NACS support through this year.