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But what if you have a bigger capacity battery (like a Tesla) and hence need to charge even faster than CCS allows (like superchargers do)? Edit: also, all tho

But what if you have a bigger capacity battery (like a Tesla) and hence need to charge even faster than CCS allows (like superchargers do)? Edit: also, all those car companies combined sell fewer electric cars than Tesla. Why do they get to set the standard?

dangrossman 10y ago
> need to charge even faster than CCS allows (like superchargers do)? CCS can charge just as fast, and faster, than Superchargers. That's not a limited by the shape of a plug or a communication protocol. CCS has been demonstrated at hundreds of kW already. > also, all those car companies combined sell fewer electric cars than Tesla. Why do they get to set the standard? So far this year, ~120K plug-in cars have been sold in the US, and Tesla only sold ~35K of them. > the world's second biggest seller of evs is Nissan, who use Chademo. Why choose CCS over Chademo? Because it's the better standard. It's just a J1772 plug, with two pins added. That means the car needs just one charging port no matter what you're plugging into it. CHAdeMO is a separate, very large connector for DC that has to be alongside the J1772 plug for AC. Given Renault recently joined the CCS group, and the Renault-Nissan CEO recently said Renault's EV tech would be coming to Nissan, CHAdeMO is likely going away in the US. Nissan was the last holdout once Hyundai switched over. -- P.S. Tesla joined CharIn, the group that sets the CCS standards, in March. They see where things are going too. http://www.charinev.org/members/our-members/ http://www.charinev.org/members/our-members/
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