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If I compare it to USB-based connectors where USB-C never came along. NACS is like a Lightning plug. From a practical/pragmatic perspective, it was clearly the
by pseudosavant 3y ago
If I compare it to USB-based connectors where USB-C never came along.
NACS is like a Lightning plug. From a practical/pragmatic perspective, it was clearly the best plug at the time it was created. It solved real user problems.
CCS a micro-USB 3.0 plug. Maybe you've never seen one[0], but they are a real thing. Let's take an awful plug (micro USB / J1772) and clumsily add a few more wires on to it to make it both more capable and even worse. It does what you need it to do, but nobody has ever thought it was good at it.
[0] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c3/Connector_USB_3_IMGP6033_wp.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c3/Connecto...
- pathartl 3y agoIMO then let's standardize on what the replacement to NACS/CCS should be. Personally, I don't see the big deal behind a larger connector, especially if it's a bit more future proof without requiring extremely clever engineering. I mean we've dealt with huge gasoline/diesel pump handles for nearly a century.
- iknowstuff 3y agoNACS is perfectly fine. It’s open now, unlike Lightning
- simondotau 3y agoAnd for ultra-high performance applications (e.g. semi trucks, farm equipment, light aircraft) there is MCS. It has the support of Tesla, Scania, Volvo among others, making it near-certain to be a industry standard in Europe and North America. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megawatt_Charging_System https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megawatt_Charging_System