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They already do exactly this in Europe. Model 3 ships with CCS, and the super chargers have now 2 cables, one of them is CCS.
by ostbahnhof 7y ago
They already do exactly this in Europe. Model 3 ships with CCS, and the super chargers have now 2 cables, one of them is CCS.
- xur17 7y agoCan non-tesla cars use their superchargers (I thought payment was done through the car, so I wasn't sure how that would work)?
- natch 7y agoOnly if the non-Tesla car manufacture accepts Tesla's offer to enable it, which means just making their cars capable by following Tesla's specs, and paying a fair share of supporting the supercharger network, proportional to usage. So far no manufacturer has accepted this offer.
- de_watcher 7y agoSomehow dozens of other EV charging networks don't need to talk to the car manufacturers. Can that supercharger myth finally die?
- londons_explore 7y agoSuperchargers are DC and match the car battery voltage. Pretty much all other chargers are AC. Even if they were DC, they would need to match the battery voltage or you're going to get wierd things like "this charger can charge your car up to 70 percent, but no higher because the charger can't go to a high enough voltage"
- de_watcher 7y agoThe CCS chargers here are DC.
- natch 7y agoIt's easy to make claims about them now, but the the CCS chargers were just a vaporware proposal back when the Supercharger network was started. I find the Supercharger connector to be pretty nice compared to the CCS connector fwiw, but whatever works for you is fine.
- natch 7y agoWhat myth would that be?
- gamblor956 7y agoTesla was required to do this in Europe in order to get their cars approved for sale in the EU...