Tesla's lead engineer for the Cybertruck, Wes Morrill, advises against using aftermarket NACS-to-NACS extension cords with Superchargers due to safety risks. He highlights that these cords lack liquid cooling present in OEM cables, potentially leading to overheating and short circuits.
Aftermarket NACS -to- NACS extension cord s exist The lead engineer of the Tesla Cybertruck recommends not using them over risks of shorting out the charging process Tesla is already working to solve the problem with new charger stalls and a first-party solution Let's just get this one out of the way up top: whatever you do, please don't show up to a Tesla Supercharger with an NACS ' extension cord .' Yup, you read that right.
Cs compensate for this heat by liquid-cooling their cables—and that's something that these extension cords don't support. As Morrill points out, that could result in an overheated cable shorting out, opening a different bag of issues. 'There's a temperature measurement in the handle and the supercharger derates based on that temperature,' said Morrill. 'With the extension cable that safety goes away.
Cs are meant to be fast. Plug in, charge up, and leave. If the charger is limiting itself because of an overheated cable, that means slowing down every person waiting in line for their turn at the charger. But then again, so does double-parking, so pick your poison. The Bottom Line: Keep It Simple If there's one thing we've learned with the move towards EVs, it's that simplicity is often key.
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