Magic Dock Confusion: Tesla’s Explanation Leaves EV Community Questioning

On October 14th, I wrote an article about my experience with Tesla disabling the Magic Dock at many Superchargers across the United States without apparent reason. The article alongside my video exploded throughout social media and other EV-related sites and channels as many others experienced what I did as well.

Tesla has finally come out and shared some information about what happened and shared it on X:

Some new sites had incorrect access settings at commissioning, which has been rectified. All sites are correctly reflected on the Find Us Map/Tesla App.

Given that the industry is all-in on NACS, most new North American openings are NACS-only sites where CCS1 vehicles can use…

— Tesla Charging (@TeslaCharging) October 21, 2024

So what exactly does this mean? Your guess is as good as mine. Tesla is pretty much saying that the Magic Dock locations were set up incorrectly and shouldn’t have been accessible using the Magic Dock built-in adapters. So why build these new dispensers with Magic Dock if you don’t have any plans to unlock them or even use them. It makes absolutely no sense but here we are.

Telsa is right in saying that the industry is moving “all-in on NACS” but for right now, in the transition phase, we need to have the ability to either use your own NACS adapter or the Magic Dock that is literally already built-in to the dispenser.

So for now, make sure you have your NACS adapter when visiting any Tesla Supercharger.