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Originally Posted by JSTARR

I had thought they could manage the switchover & other required hardware offboard, in the cable and adaptor for pre MY 2025 BEVs.

Looping back to your original post, there are three major changes coming:

1. Manufacturer onboarding: This is necessary for anything else to work. This is the process of Tesla and BMW connecting their back-end computer systems so that when you plug in to a Supercharger, Tesla recognizes your VIN as a valid vehicle to charge and then allows charging. When this is done, our cars will be authorized and billed through the BMW app, not the Tesla app. Tesla and BMW are doing this sometime in early 2025.
2. CCS Adapters: Second is for all the cars with CCS charge ports, Tesla or BMW must provide adapters to enable us to physically connect our cars to a Supercharger. If Tesla follows the same pattern as with Ford & Rivian, we should be able to order adapters around the time Tesla & BMW announce that we are onboarded.
3. NACS Ports: Future cars, starting sometime in 2025 will come with NACS ports instead of the CCS ports like we have today. Those cars will be able to directly connect to a Supercharger without an adapter.

Here's some other unrelated stuff and stuff that is not going to happen.

• NACS Port Retrofit: BMW is unlikely to retrofit a native NACS port in our cars. So, we will have to use the NACS to CCS adapters for the life of our cars.
• Magic Dock: Tesla has a few thousand Superchargers equipped with Magic Dock. These are essentially adapters built into the charging stations. We can charge at any of those today if we setup an account in the Tesla app.
• Digital Communication Protocols: This is already in play. (See Magic Dock.) Tesla Superchargers have been able to speak the CCS protocol for several years.
• V2 Superchargers: We will never be able to use V2 Superchargers. Those are early versions that do not speak the CCS protocol. Fortunately, there are not as many of those and Tesla is replacing them over time with newer generation Superchargers.