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Electrify America Will Begin to phase out CHAdeMO In 2022
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- mrlonglong 5y agoThis is good. The EU and the UK already mandates CCS for electric cars. I believe some day one will be able to circumnavigate the world using only CCS and rapid charging.
- theluketaylor 5y agoThe CCS protocol is consistent, but the Europe and North American plugs are not the same. The North American connector is Type 1 and only works with single phase AC. Europe uses Type 2 which works with both single and 3-phase power. Since the communication protocol is the same adaptors are fairly simple (especially for AC charging), but DC charging would likely have cooling and amperage limitations from adding another electrical connection to the path.
- mrlonglong 5y agoThat's disappointing news! That would have been a fantastic roadtrip around the world. Oh well, maybe someday!
- snotrockets 5y agoI'd settle for Hudson Bay to Tierra del Fuego
- posguy 5y agoThis is bad news for current electric Nissan owners. Sadly there has not been much progress on an CHAdeMO to CCS conversion offerings for these vehicles (either as a hardware upgrade on the car itself or as an external adapter).
- Corrado 5y agoYes, but I'm not so sure it will actually have much impact in a real world sense. Firstly, this only affects North American Nissan vehicles and while the Leaf was the best selling BEV for many years, the sales were not huge. Second, the existing CHAdeMO connectors will not be going away anytime soon, they are just not installing new ones. So if you have a spot you normally charge at now you can continue to use that for the foreseeable future.