Free Ford F-150 Lightning Supercharger adapter in final testing as Tesla may offer plug and charge functionality

Ford was one of the first major automakers to announce the adoption of Tesla's open-source North American Charging Standard (NACS) that would give its EVs ports to access its sprawling Supercharger network directly.

While those NACS ports and connectors will be standard on new Ford vehicles next year, in the meantime the company collaborated with Tesla to distribute free Supercharger adapters to current F-150 Lightning or Mustang Mach-E owners.

Ford promised a spring 2024 release for the complimentary NACS adapters and it will seemingly start shipping them right on schedule. Ford's CEO Jim Farley personally went to test the new free Supercharger adapters and snapped a picture of it with the promise to share more release info "very soon."

Ford's NACS adapter in the picture looks suspiciously like Tesla's Magic Docks that it has been installing in new Supercharger stations to gain both CCS compatibility and earn the lion's share of federal grants for a nationwide EV charging infrastructure.

In the charging section of the Tesla app in the US there is now a hint that it may soon offer plug and charge functionality for CCS vehicles and it is even filming an ad how easy it is to access Superchargers with them. 

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