Tesla has made one other uncommon enlargement of its Magic Dock Superchargers for non-Tesla electrical vehicles in North America.

During the last two years, Tesla has been working to open its Supercharger community to non-Tesla electrical automobiles.

In Europe, Tesla has already opened a whole bunch of stations within the nations it operates in on the outdated continent. It step by step added extra stations for non-Tesla EVs on its Supercharger community and has added extra stations. But it surely’s simple for Tesla to try this in Europe as a result of it’s utilizing the identical connectors which can be on all EVs.

In North America, issues have been extra difficult as a result of Tesla didn’t use the usual CCS connector. It used its personal proprietary connector, which Tesla ended up opening as much as the remainder of the market final 12 months. Tesla’s connector has since change into the unofficial new commonplace after a number of automakers introduced that they might undertake it.

Nonetheless, this adoption goes to occur over the following few years. First with an adapter and later, in 2025, by means of direct integration in non-Tesla EVs.

Within the meantime, Tesla has one other resolution.

Earlier this 12 months, Tesla began deploying expertise that it calls “Magic Dock” at just a few Supercharger stations. It serves as a brand new receiver for the Tesla cost connector on the Supercharger station, and it may be disconnected from the charger to behave as a NACS to CCS adapter.

In February, Tesla formally launched the brand new Supercharger stations with Magic Dock as a technique to onboard non-Tesla EV house owners to the Supercharger community. It put in the adapter at a few dozen stations in New York and California, however then the system was not put in at any new station in months. We assumed that the transfer to open its connector, now often called NACS, is perhaps the explanation behind the halt in deploying Magic Dock Superchargers.

Final month, Tesla expanded its Magic Dock Superchargers to Texas – the primary new station in months. Now it appears like Tesla has determined to maintain going with the Magic Dock resolution because it added a number of extra new stations:

The deployment remains to be very restricted, however Tesla has now expanded from the coasts and Texas, launching new stations in Utah, Colorado, Michigan, and Washington State.

It appears like Tesla will proceed to speculate on this resolution forward of providing adapters to non-Tesla EVs subsequent 12 months.

Electrek’s Take

If I needed to guess, I might suppose it has one thing to do with making the most of incentives, which regularly require that the stations have CCS connectors or be obtainable to electrical automobiles from a couple of automaker.

Different automakers adopting NACS ought to handle that, however within the meantime, Tesla doubtless doesn’t wish to go away cash on the desk.