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Uh. "No pins are left exposed" because of that little flip up and down flap for the CCS DC pins that will have 240V on them when AC charging?

I don't see any inherent reason it can't be safe. But if it is safe, it will be very, very heavy. I would trust A2Z to not cut corners here, but watch out when the fly by night Amazon vendors with names like SOBUBDY get into the mix.

Indeed I had to replace a post-mounted 30A receptacle used for charging at my folks' house after a 5-year-old jammed a garden fork between the receptacle and Tesla Mobile Connector plug "to see what would happen". This adapter puts 240V on pins you could totally touch accidentally, no garden...

Oh, dear God. Some fly by night string of random letters Amazon bottom feeder made one. You're right, I didn't know. Do not buy this. It shorts together the DC and AC charge pins inside the adapter. It is fundamentally unsafe. Tesla cars can safely use the same pins for DC and AC charging...

That is not a thing, "a joint CCS/j1772 to NACS adaptor". NACS uses the same pins for AC and DC charging, which means passive adapters (the only kind made) have to be for AC or DC - not both .

It probably doesn't get as cold where I live as where you do but it gets down below -10F at night for a good chunk of each winter, and we get a few very substantial storms every year. My Lightning sits outside our house halfway up a ski mountain every night just like my old gas F150 did, and on...

No, no it's not. The problem with "extension cords" is that they are not overcurrent protected like the rest of the wiring in your home. If an appliance draws only 7A, but plugs into a standard 15A receptacle, there is no reason why that appliance's permanently attached cord can't use 16 gauge...

I got an alert from A2Z at 1AM yesterday that their 6' NACS DC extension cable was finally in stock. Unfortunately, by 9AM this morning when I read my email - no longer. Either it was a mistake, and the cable wasn't actually available yet, or people jumped on this in that 8 hours in the middle...

Yes, exactly. And the wire protocol they would have to speak is undocumented outside Tesla and, I have some reason to believe, not exhaustively documented inside Tesla either. Tesla themselves shied away from implementing it on their own Chademo adapter - they taught the cars to speak Chademo...

I have a Delta technical contact at work who was able to get me some early documentation way back in 2022. I'll reach out and see if they have anything to say. I honestly don't know who sells which parts of this Rube Goldberg contraption to whom, with Ford, Siemens, Delta, AEE, and Sunrun all...

It was certainly not my intention to write anything you would take as a personal attack. Sorry if I did so. You made a statement about the technical difficulty of a task I have done several times, but which not a whole lot of other people have. Your statement is wrong, in my view, and I am...

"That older proprietary communications protocol" is unstandardized and poorly documented at best. The NACS standard specifies CCS signaling. That is what is "native" for NACS. Tesla themselves have had major interoperability problems between their own vehicles and chargers in the past. It...

It might be assumed that gravity would start to pull things upwards. I'll watch and wait.

Or maybe -- just maybe, you know -- I'm a non-"flatlander" who spends a ton of time driving and riding 4 and 2 wheeled vehicles on loose surfaces, who definitely knows what you're talking about, but who doesn't agree with you. Managing how much power you put to the road is definitely key to...

I coach competitive skiers and drive hundreds of miles per weekend, in the mountains, all winter long. I live halfway up a ski mountain and on winter mornings when we have away comps I'm often on the road well before the plows. I guess what you're doing works for you but it is the exact...

BEV is the battery electric vehicle customer service team. People post their phone number here periodically - apologies, I would go find it for you myself but I'm in a rush at the moment. @Ford Motor Company may be the same team.

They probably gave you a charger someone else had returned. And Ford factory warranties have no "deductible". They just stole your $100. The plug adapter is supplied with the charger and should have been replaced as it could have been the cause of the fault. I would escalate to the Ford BEV...

The Ford mobile cord is junk. Get a Tesla mobile connector and a good quality adapter like the A2Z and don't look back.

I do not understand what the relationship between this just-announced "1.4", the "1.4" that some people bludgeoned into installing via FDRS, and the "1.3" even those people subsequently received as an OTA update might be. Does anyone know? @rugedraw perhaps?

Meanwhile MBTA in Boston is pulling down wires and pretending periodic charging of battery electric trolleybuses will give anything even remotely like the efficiency or range of just directly powering the drivetrain from the trolley wires as their existing system did. There's plenty of new dumb...