Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted in July that his firm’s 25,000-strong Supercharger community could be open to different manufacturers of electrical autos “later this 12 months.”

Final week, throughout Tesla’s second-quarter monetary name with analysts, Musk added that he believed the method for non-Tesla clients to make use of Superchargers could be easy.

“We’re at present considering it is an actual easy factor, the place you simply obtain the Tesla app, and also you go to a Supercharger. And also you simply point out which stall you are in. So that you plug in your automotive, even when it isn’t Tesla. And then you definitely simply entry the app and say, activate this stall that I am in for the way a lot electrical energy. And this could principally work with, I feel, virtually any producer’s automobiles,” Musk mentioned.

However it is probably not so easy, some EV phase observers imagine.

Homeowners of the Nissan Leaf, Chevrolet Bolt, Porsche Taycan, Jaguar I-Tempo and Mustang Mach-E, for instance, might discover utilizing the Superchargers to be a problem.

Tesla autos bought in North America are constructed with a proprietary plug that’s not appropriate with different manufacturers’ EVs. In Europe, Tesla makes use of a regular plug. There’s an adapter obtainable for Tesla’s Stage 2 or Vacation spot Chargers, however not for the Superchargers Musk desires to open up.

“Some type of adapter can be wanted,” says Sam Abuelsamid, principal analyst for E-Mobility Analysis at Guidehouse Insights. “Tesla might add some chargers with [combined charging system] connectors or provide some sort of adapter that enables CCS autos to be plugged into Superchargers.”

One other difficulty is that, not like the chargers from Electrify America, EVgo and different networks, Tesla Superchargers haven’t got a display or a technique to swipe a bank card or enter fee particulars.

Musk’s proposal might additionally require extra cooperation with outdoors firms. EVs and chargers have to speak with one another to make sure compatibility. That implies that apps will should be developed, presumably by each Tesla and different automakers, to permit the charging “handshake” to happen between the Tesla charger and the non-Tesla car.

The subsequent problem could be whether or not Tesla might even create an adapter and an app on Musk’s end-of-year timeline. The automaker has extra urgent points proper now, together with the development of two meeting vegetation and the event of latest autos, such because the Cybertruck and its electrical semitruck.

However Abuelsamid thinks at the very least among the software program and fee points may very well be solved if Tesla enabled homeowners of different model autos to enroll in a Tesla charging account.

“Plug and cost” software program may very well be a technique a non-Tesla car might work with a Supercharger. It allows a buyer to easily plug in an EV, then the car and the charger join, and billing is dealt with mechanically by means of the app.

“It actually has not been a easy launch for Electrify America, the primary community to make use of plug and cost,” he mentioned.

“There’ll most likely be some challenges for the primary automobiles to make use of Superchargers.”

Opening Superchargers to different manufacturers might assist Tesla offset among the capital expenditures associated to its new vegetation and autos, the automaker acknowledged.

“Rising the utilization of the community truly reduces our prices, which permits us to decrease charging costs for our clients and make the community extra worthwhile,” Andrew Baglino, Tesla’s, senior vice chairman, powertrain and power engineering, mentioned in the course of the convention name.

However Tesla clients have already grumbled on-line in regards to the thought of sharing their Superchargers.

A Twitter person going by the identify of Ehud Karassik replied to Musk’s Supercharger tweet with: “That is a disgrace! That’s the thanks you give all Tesla homeowners who believed in you and acquired your product? The enjoyment of seeing Tesla superchargers jammed with outdated Nissan Leafs and Chevy Bolts?”