The first post cannot be updated because they locked the thread, which they did w/o checking with the site admins and it seems the admins are too busy to have made the decision (I think it's personal stuff, ya know) hopefully the good stuff has been done by that thread, I certainly got my adapter when it was going.
Can only speak for myself when I say I don't expect Tesla to 'support' CCS charging in the sense that I expect them to help me troubleshoot a third-party charger, or front the cost of tow from a third-party charger.
They did at first. They even limited initial purchases to Model 3 SRs, and it took a few months for them to open it up to allow anyone to place an order.
Tesla has always had supply problems with its accessories. When Tesla was still selling the CHAdeMO adapter in North America, it would be marked as "out of stock" more often than not. When a shipment arrived, it would be snapped up quickly and become unavailable again. The same has been true of other items, too, like Mobile Connectors, wall plugs for the same, etc. These problems predate covid. I don't know if covid-related supply chain problems have exacerbated the issue.
I agree with the rest about Tesla always having had supply issues (although it's unclear to me why Korea doesn't have the same issues and were available for order) - but for the retrofit issue why not just require users to enter their VIN? I believe that's what Tesla Korea already does? That way there's no confusion whether or not your Tesla is CCS1-enabled.
They should really be included with every new Tesla, like the J1772 adaptor. This is petty sh!t for cars of this price range. I’d say for most long distance travelers the CCS1 would be more valuable than the now oprional UMC. Optimally every Tesla would have both along with J plug and be able to charge anywhere in N. America.
You are not required to enter a VIN number when ordering the CCS adapter from the Korean Tesla online store. You are required to have a Tesla account to log into and order the adapter from it. Just the same, Tesla could check the VINs that are on the account and know whether the adapter would work or not.
They're often faster, when compared to crappy V2 superchargers with shared power.
Uh, what? They DO have the same supply issue. It is one company that has to decide what markets they can support and how well with their very limited supply. And I would think you would realize that the number of people and Tesla owners in the U.S. is vastly larger than in South Korea. If you only have 100 pieces of something, do you choose to support this tiny market over here, where you can fill all of the orders and have 100% customer satisfaction? Yeah, maybe. But it would make sense not to open it up to the market of 100,000 customers where your tiny 100 pieces only fills .1 % of the orders, and you have a giant line of angry people. You have just unnecessarily made people angry at you, where if you never announced it there yet, they wouldn't have known about it to have a chance to be dissatisfied. So yes, it makes sense to hold off on the really big market until they have some chance of enough supply for it to not be a disaster.
My speculation (emphasis: speculation) was that Tesla might not want to offer the adapter that exists now for any cars until they can offer a way to make it work for all Teslas (or at least all of them made after some date or easily adapted). This has nothing to do with checking with VINs about whether any given car would work with an adapter; it'd just be a matter of Tesla wanting to avoid complaints from those whose cars are currently not CCS-enabled. Once again, this is speculative. I don't even think it's all that likely an explanation, but it's a possible one. IMHO, an inability to get enough product out of their chosen supplier is the more likely explanation.
That won't help people that will be angry that they are left out and that Tesla didn't prepare for a launch for everyone (especially leaving out their earliest supporters). This was pointed out way earlier in the thread, where people are grabbing pitchforks already just because Tesla put out a teaser. If Tesla launched this and purposefully leave out a large group of people, that would be even worse, as way more people would know about the adapter (now only people who really "need" an adapter would go through the hoops, if it's officially launched everyone here would be competing also against those that want it as a nicety for stock).
