I talked a tech disassembling a Tesla charger yesterday.
He said they’re installing a computer unit that allows Tesla chargers to work with other brands of car via the app.
These are NOT magic dock stations and NOT V4 stations. Just generic V3 stations with NACS handles.
He said that within the next few days, in our region 100% of V3 chargers will support other brands and will be able to initiate charging from the app.
Obviously, those cars would need an external adapter. He even showed me the unit inside the charger that enables communication with the app to allow this and said all V3 chargers nationwide were getting this module “very soon” if it wasn’t already installed.
He also showed me the cool liquid cooling setup in V3 supercharger cables (he was swapping the cable performing preventative maintenance).
He said that NO V2 Superchargers would ever support third-party charging and they will only ever work with Tesla cars. Unsure how authoritative that is, but he said the unit that enables charging via the app just doesn’t exist and has no means of being adapted to a V2 supercharger.
He said V4 superchargers are going to be a least into next year before we see any (he may have meant in this region).
Since my Model 3 SR+ is limited to 150 kWh anyway, if the Supercharger stations become a shitshow when other manufacturers have access to them, I’ll limit myself to the plethora or V2 along my usual long distance routes. However, during my long distance trip last weekend, out of the three Supercharger stations I went to, only one had other cars charging (2 out of 20). That one was a V2. The other two were V3 with 8 stalls and there was no one beside us for the whole charging time (15 minutes each) so for now, I don’t think it will be an issue anyway.