Back in May, Ford shocked the electric car world by being the first to announce that its future EVs would adopt Tesla's North American Charging Standard plug and gain access to that charging network. At the time, Ford said that it worked out a deal with Tesla where its EVs would use those chargers with an adapter starting in 2024, and then switch to Tesla's plug from the factory from 2025 onward.
But it turns out Ford's switch to the NACS plug wasn't the easy slam dunk it seemed to be.