Plug-and-charge: Ford Blue Oval

[Crissa]

We're all looking at how the Lightning shakes out, of course. And so little bits are coming out.




According to Transport Evolved, plug and charge - the default mode in a Tesla - is a pay for play service in the Lightning. She does a comparison between the low price that having an Electrify America subscription (which would pay for itself in a single charging session with a Lightning) vs using 'Blue Oval' the fancy Ford plug and charge service at the same charge point.

-Crissa

 

[kev12345]

too bad plug and charge isn't just built into the ccs charging standard. Tesla way ahead again...

 

[Crissa]

too bad plug and charge isn't just built into the ccs charging standard. Tesla way ahead again...

Oh, it is, it's just optional.

-Crissa

 

[SparkChaser]

We're all looking at how the Lightning shakes out, of course. And so little bits are coming out.




According to Transport Evolved, plug and charge - the default mode in a Tesla - is a pay for play service in the Lightning. She does a comparison between the low price that having an Electrify America subscription (which would pay for itself in a single charging session with a Lightning) vs using 'Blue Oval' the fancy Ford plug and charge service at the same charge point.

-Crissa

But if you live in Texas, but if instead live in a modern city.... LOL

 

[Ogre]

Oh, it is, it's just optional.

-Crissa

It’s one of those standards where the implementation details are left to the maker so there will be 17 incompatible implementations.