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Any downside other than bigger plug? And plug is bigger partially because it needs to support 3 phases, which isn’t a thing in USA houses (while common across
by justapassenger 3y ago
Any downside other than bigger plug?
And plug is bigger partially because it needs to support 3 phases, which isn’t a thing in USA houses (while common across the whole world) but is a thing at industrial locations. Tesla plug doesn’t work with 3 phases.
- Symbiote 3y agoCCS1 used in North America is only single phase. CCS2 used in Europe (and elsewhere) supports three phase.
- sebazzz 3y agoThe electricity grid has three phases in the US right? Are devices seldom connected to three phases?
- vel0city 3y agoThree phase power is out there but you never see it in residential and rarely in commercial. It's pretty much just an industrial kind of thing.
- rekoil 3y agoI have two 3-phase 480V 16A sockets in my 50m2 European apartment.
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- BenjiWiebe 3y agoI disagree with the rarely in commercial. It's extremely common in commercial environments from what I've seen.
- Rebelgecko 3y agoBigger plug is a big one, like you mentioned. 3 phase isn't an issue in the US version IIRC, but it still has more pins than NACS to maintain backwards compatibility. Thicker + heavier cables too (not sure if that's required by CCS or just an implementation difference w/ NACS). Together that makes CCS much more unwieldy than a gas pump. The NACS latching mechanism is a lot better- latch failures are a big part of why so many J1772 chargers are broken and unusable.