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You don't usually use other people's chargers to charge your phone. Compatibility between EV chargers would be very useful though: I've had the experience of having to carefully plan a Tesla road trip from the Bay Area to LA around the locations and distances between Tesla Supercharging stations. I can see how having, at the very least, a converter to access other charging stations would be convenient.

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My friend is able to use other charging networks on their model3. I think that there is an adaptor

The adapter is for slower charging, not CCS.

Looks like the CCS adaptor can do 350kw https://youtu.be/ZwW3UBEgyew

No, there's a Chademo adapter for Teslas in NA. I use it every week.

I think most of the discussion here is about the other way around— allowing non-Tesla vehicles access to the Superchargers.

In this case the Op was talking about arranging around super charger stations. But yeah.

I charge my phones at friend's houses or in their cars all the time, though? And I don't usually keep a spare cord with me.

Teslas come standard with an adapter that allows you to plug in everywhere?

I know, because my home charger isn’t a Tesla one and yet I have use it every day on a Tesla without issue…

You can only use your adapter at slow chargers.

You can not use your adapter at high speed CCS chargers.

I see. I’ve never dealt with off-brand fast chargers.

You can buy such chargers already and in future Tesla could easily offer official once. There is no issue in principle with fast charging a Tesla with a CCS charger.

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