In an interview with InsideEVs' Tom Moloughney, the Ford CEO talks about what it took to convince Musk to let Ford in on Tesla's chargers.
Back in May, Ford shocked the electric car world by being the first to announce that its future EVs would adopt Tesla's North American Charging Standard plug and gain access to that charging network. At the time, Ford said that it worked out a deal with Tesla where its EVs would use those chargers with an adapter starting in 2024, and then switch to Tesla's plug from the factory from 2025 onward.
'And so he called and they said, nah, it's not very interesting to them.'' But then they examined the data around connectivity with most non-Tesla chargers and saw how uncompetitive they were. 'It became pretty clear, pretty quickly, that we could become pretty arrogant and keep our head in the sand, or we could really call them and say, 'We really want to do this,'' Farley said.
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