srs5694
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In addition to @jsight's point, I'm not sure I'd agree that there are "several CCS adapters on the market." Currently, for North America, the only one that's officially available is the Setec/Lectron adapter. (This was originally sold direct from Setec, but the last I'd heard they'd appointed Lectron as their official North American distributor, so it's now sold under that name.) Tesla has been repeatedly disabling this adapter, citing safety concerns -- it appears to be possible to disconnect the CCS plug from the adapter without first powering it down, creating a high-voltage electric spark hazard. Setec has been countering by updating their own firmware, so owners find that it works one week, fails to work the next week (after a Tesla firmware update), and then works again a week or two later (after updating the adapter's firmware), and so on. Of course, if Tesla's concerns are valid and not overblown (and I tend to give Tesla the benefit of the doubt on this one), the adapter really isn't safe and should be used cautiously at most, and arguably not at all. What's more, it maxes out at 50 kW, so your comment about adding high-speed stations is kind of moot for it. (In theory, it could do 80 kW, and for a while it did so on Models S and X; but Tesla has imposed a 50 kW limit in software to CHAdeMO devices, which the Setec adapter pretends to be.)I would prefer if Tesla would just get around to adding CCS chargers to the NAV display. At least for high speed CCS stations like ChargePoint and EA. There are several CCS adapters on the market, so they shouldn't wait to add CCS to NA Teslas until their own adapter is available. They probably should have added them when they adding the CCS Enabled information tag to the Car Info section.
Tesla's CCS adapter is not officially available in North America, AFAIK. Although a number of people here have bought one from Korea, until Tesla starts officially selling them, it'd be hard to justify Tesla adding CCS stations to the in-car navigation. Also, this adapter works only on newer Teslas (like, those made sometime in 2020 or later; I don't know the exact cutoff date). Older ones, like my own 2019 Model 3, lack the required CCS support in the car. Thus, some people might never be able to use Tesla's adapter, even once it becomes available, unless they first update their charging hardware. I gather that some people have managed to do this, but I expect a lot of people wouldn't feel comfortable doing this themselves, and it's unclear if Tesla will ever officially support such an upgrade, or how much it would cost through them.
AFAIK, those are the only two CCS1 adapters in existence. Tesla does sell a CCS2 adapter for Model S and X vehicles in Europe, but that's another market entirely, with different issues. I have no idea if European Teslas show non-Tesla CCS2 stations in their navigation.