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What if you could plug in where ever you park your car? You don't need to stop somewhere for 40 minutes if you're able to charge every where you go.
by cptskippy 6y ago
What if you could plug in where ever you park your car? You don't need to stop somewhere for 40 minutes if you're able to charge every where you go.
- gnicholas 6y agoTrue, but I’m not going to want to spend the overhead time to figure out if my car is compatible with some random charger, figure out if the price is favorable (some are by the minute, others by the kilowatt hour), and then plug and unplug just to get the range equivalent of 2 gallons of gas while I’m at a store.
- cptskippy 6y agoTesla is the only one who doesn't support J1772. The compatibility problem has mostly solved itself with the industry adopting CCS, which is backwards compatible with J1772. Teslas sold in North America are the only new EVs without CCS. The reason charger pricing is inconsistent is because there isn't regulation requiring a standard the way fluid pricing is regulated. https://www.nist.gov/document/00-20-h130-iv-c-final-80pdf https://www.nist.gov/document/00-20-h130-iv-c-final-80pdf Both of those issues are easily solved by legislation.
- kwhitefoot 6y agoJust in case anyone failed to read between the lines: all new non-US Teslas have CCS.
- ascorbic 6y agoAll slow charging points use the same connectors, which are compatible with all EVs. It's the rapid chargers where there are different standards, but most seem to be converging on CCS, and all chargers support that (and all except Tesla superchargers also support ChaDeMo, the other standard).