Mercedes-benz Ev Owners Can Start Using Tesla Superchargers In February

Mercedes-Benz said that its electrical vehicles will beryllium tin to entree Tesla’s Supercharger web starting successful February.

By now you should beryllium acquainted pinch really this goes: a shaper announces Supercharger access, first done nan usage of NACS-to-CCS adapters and past later pinch autochthonal NACS integration. The adapters are disposable to acquisition done dealerships. And EV owners will get to giddily watch arsenic nan number of accessible nationalist EV chargers abruptly grows by nan thousands. (By past count, Tesla had 20,000 stalls successful nan US and Canada.)

Of course, this is each unsocial to North American residents, arsenic Europeans who ain immoderate tone of EV personification agelong been tin to entree Tesla Superchargers acknowledgment to a overmuch enlightened stance connected exertion standards.

Mercedes will beryllium nan seventh automaker to summation entree to Tesla’s lauded EV charging network, pursuing Ford, General Motors, Rivian, Volvo, Polestar, and Nissan. Mercedes primitively hoped to personification everything sorted retired pinch Tesla by 2024, but we’ll trim it immoderate slack. Elon Musk was beautiful engaged past year. (Volkswagen is too readying connected opening entree this summer, PC Magazine reported.)

The adapter, which is produced by EV charging supplier Lectron, will discarded for $185 done authorized dealerships. According to Mercedes spokesperson Andrew Brudnicki, nan Lectron adapter is “the only adapter to time that has been tested for accusation and compatibility pinch Mercedes-Benz EVs” and “includes different advantages for customers, specified arsenic a overmuch robust interlock narration betwixt nan cablegram and adapter compared to akin adapters.”

(Lectron had a less issues pinch a faulty latch pin past year, resulting successful a callback of astir 1,600 units; nan institution says those issues were addressed successful April 2024, and since then, location haven’t been immoderate different problems.)

Tesla Supercharger locations will too beryllium added to Mercedes’ charger practice successful its app. And nan strategy will beryllium integrated pinch nan company’s usage of Plug & Charge, successful which charging initiates arsenic soon arsenic nan customer plugs in, pinch nary further steps aliases authorizations required.

Later this year, Mercedes plans to rotation retired its first vehicles pinch factory-installed NACS ports. We don’t cognize which models will recreation first, but nan institution has a assortment of EVs available, from nan luxurious EQS, to nan overmuch affordable EQE and EQB, to nan status-conferring electrical G-Wagen.

Mercedes is progressive successful a scope of EV charging explanation projects, including nan installation of thousands of accelerated chargers pinch prima institution MN8 Energy and nan Ionna venture, connected pinch respective different awesome OEMs.