Tesla Model 3 Highland MagSafe Charger (Apple)

Description

This is designed for the Model 3 Highland (2024). It's designed to fit Apple's 25W MagSafe charger (Model ID: MGDM4ZM/A).

I have included Fusion 360 and STEP files for easier remixing.

NOTE

I highly recommend the 2-metre MagSafe charger variant, if you intend to connect the USB-C the backseat-side centre console USB-C ports.

Printing

Print 

• 1x Top_Plate

• 1x Bottom_Plate

Tip

You can save filament by making the bottom plate skeletonised. 
I did this by setting:

• Number of top and bottom layers to 0

• Number of perimeters to 3

• Infill: Honeycomb (15%)

10% infill would probably work too, 5% might be pushing it.

This will save filament, but it will make the bottom plate lighter, which may make the charger more prone to lifting when disconnecting your phone from it.

Assembly

The two plates attach by four aligning pins. Just insert your MagSafe charger to the top plate, guide its wire through the cable guides in the top and bottom layer as shown below

That's it! 

The next section shows you how I decided to guide the wire to the rear-seat USB-C port.

Wire-Routing Advice

You'll have to get into the mental state we in the spiritual business refer to as "Tuck-o Mode," because this cable-tucking shit made my fingers ache for an hour.

I will show how to guide the left side MagSafe charger's cable (the right side is the same but mirrored, probably).

Let me know if you have a better way of doing this.

In the images below BLUE colour indicates parts of the car; these are intended to guide the eye, so you know which part of the car you are looking at in the pictures. Hopefully this makes it easier to follow the pictures! :)

Part 1

Guide the cable coming out of the bottom plate under the gap between the wireless charger side walls and the dashboard under the main centre display:

I used my fingers to get the cable secured under in the gap. You can then use something thin to hide the cable, I used the edge of a parking disc:

And here is the result:

Part 2

Now, we will proceed to guiding the cable from the top of the wireless charger towards the floor of the car.

To do this, you can first tuck the cable in the gap between the side wall insert of the car's in-built wireless charger and the centre console as shown below:

From there, you will proceed to guide the cable to the floor of the vehicle.

Part 3

I found that between the centre console and the floor. In my experience though, right next to the left-side seat (driver's seat in my country), there are small parts where this gap is impossible to tuck the wire into. You'll soon see this.

First, tuck the cable between the floor and centre console gap, as below:

As shown below, there is an length of the cable that I was unable to tuck under the centre console. This part starts right where the rail of the front left seat begins. 

Part 4

Now, you can go to the rear seats of the car. There are two USB-C ports in the front console (under the rear display and the air vents in the Model 3 Highland 2024). I decided to use these.

I found that my 2m magsafe cable had a little bit of extra length left after plugging it in the USB-C port, as seen below:

I ended up tucking the excess wire under the floor and the behind of the centre console as below.

And that's it!

Inspiration Credit

The two-part architecture is inspired by: