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Maybe… the big problem is that they said it’s going to be using fords tech stack and app so I imagine there will be some communication from the car to the charg
by tannedNerd 3y ago
Maybe… the big problem is that they said it’s going to be using fords tech stack and app so I imagine there will be some communication from the car to the charger to regulate the charging speed as not all super chargers have the magic dock upgrade that allows them to ”talk” with third party cars properly or even start without the app. That adapter maybe be doing some of that work which could make it harder to reverse engineer as you’ll still need something to auth and start charging at non magic dock chargers.
- hedora 3y agoI'm hoping the dongle speaks CCS over the CCS port. Otherwise, I'd guess Ford would have to push firmware updates or something to old cars. So, then it's just a matter of authentication. Assuming the auth goes with the dongle and not the car, then it's probably somewhat easy (and also legal) to spoof the authentication between dongle and car, since there's no hardware owned by a third party on that link. If it's passing plug & charge credentials from the Ford vehicle through to Tesla, then I'd guess it'd be harder.