How can you tell which is a V2 versus V3+ charger?
V2 are 150kW, V3 are 250kW
150 kW stations are V2. V3+ are 250 kW. That's the only way to tell as far as I know.
good question. the adaptor someone linked to earlier in this thread is a simple adaptor, no cable included. I know Tesla's port is in the rear of the drivers side, so seems like must back in to get close and I can see that could be a problem for us. Perhaps a Tesla owner can help us out on this thread
The V4 cables are longer. Also, Tesla is removing the bollards from a lot of their stations because the cables are too short to reach the Cybertruck. The front camera is going to be essential in pulling into superchargers.
Visually you can tell the difference. V2s have a silver ring around the cable just below the connectors. The V3 does not. Ford chose to park at a V2 for the picture they used to announce the deal.
There's a couple ways to tell when you are actually looking. The actual charger boxes are telling, too. Online, though (say, in Plug Share or supercharger.info) the wattage is the only way to filter in order to see what will be available to us. That's what I was referring to.Visually you can tell the difference. V2s have a silver ring around the cable just below the connectors. The V3 does not. Ford chose to park at a V2 for the picture they used to announce the deal.
This isn't going to change anything for you, there are chargers already on the route for you that will charge your truck at the maximum rate. This is only going to be clutch for a few people who want to road trip a lot and improvise. I've driven my truck all over the midwest and had zero problems, other than the occasional slow (50kW) rate of charge, but I have a friend with a Tesla in Tulsa and he gets under 50kW at both of our superchargers routinely. He has grandfathered free supercharging so I suspect that has something to do with it. That would be just like Tesla to reduce his speed b/c he is charging for free. I can't wait to see all the lightning owners who think this is going to make such a huge difference nationwide when they experience 50kW charge rates.
This alone confirms what a publicity stunt this whole agreement is. I still don't believe Ford will change the CCS plug. There's no reason to, if this works out even half as good as some are crying out we'll all have adapters. I also heard from a Ford engineer that the NACS charging port is currently planned to be an "option", that was the smartest thing I've heard to date, but I suspect it will be a very low exercised option by only previous or concurrent Tesla fan/owners.Visually you can tell the difference. V2s have a silver ring around the cable just below the connectors. The V3 does not. Ford chose to park at a V2 for the picture they used to announce the deal.
I dont think Tesla would purposely throttle an EV with such a large battery, while pissing off their own customer base because superchargers are backed up with non-tesla's.
No body knows what Tesla will or won't do any more than they know what Elon will or won't say
LOLSee this photo in the other thread of an F150L at a Magic-Dock enabled Tesla Charger. Its not the greatest parking situation to reach the charge port:
That cable looks like it is only rated for 250A. They are careful to spec it as up to 250 kW and it is rated for 1000V. They never specify the current limit so more than likely the only way to get 250 kW is on a 1000V system. On the lightning you’ll only get around 100 kW. Also, it’s not clear how the charger or the car will know the cable is limited so there’s a risk that you could exceed the rating, maybe by as much as twice the limit. If that’s the case there’s going to be another round of news stories about EVs bursting into flames.
