Their adoption is completely abysmal. But the EVs and PHEVs they do have are all J1772 and CHAdeMO with the exception of Tesla that use their connector.
Europe never used J1772, so that standard won’t be replaced over here. Europe standardised IEC 62196 Type 2 (the “Mennekes” plug) in 2013, so the whole question doesn’t apply to the EU.
I expect 10-15 years of dongle hell as we wait for the old cars to reach end-of-life. Then once everything’s settled down, battery chemistry improvements will prompt a migration to the MCS connector for faster DC charging.
Though Tesla is claiming “up to 1MW” for the connector. Perhaps 100 kWh in 6 minutes is good enough for the foreseeable future of passenger road vehicles, even if MCS would be ~4X faster.
Still going to have ac charging at homes and parking lots. I think DC charging at gas station like businesses will be common, but the majority of charging will still be done at home.
Tesla also claimed FSD “this year” for past better part of the decade. In theory you can charge your battery with whatever voltage and/or current you want… dissipating heat on the other hand is a real problem that kills chemistry. Then again, Tesla doesn’t consider spontaneously combusting cars an issue so…
In the future, cars might store energy in nanosupercapacitors, but we’ll still be stuck with NACS. The ultimate physical limits of the connector are what matters today.
Currently kia and Hyundai owners are currently being told not to park their cars in the garage as they are recalled for catching on fire, but somehow it’s Tesla that doesn’t care about burnimg cars.
Exactly, proper car manufacturers are recalling their vehicles and sorting the problem out. Tesla pretends there’s no problem and has teams in place to downplay the range issues.
How about what’s actually happening: Tesla does not have a problem with cars catching on fire but the media reports on it every time one does catch on fire and you’re using the accessibility heuristic.
It used to be that there were dozens of news stories titled “car catches in fire” that used to be titled “Tesla catches fire” because the writee misidentified the make.
Where are the kia-fire and Hyundai-fire web sites that only report news sources?
Oh, there aren’t any. Why? Because a regular car catching fire isn’t a news story that “drives engagement”. “Be scared of the disruptive EVs”, however, does.
I don’t know why something doesn’t exist. No one made it I suppose. And am not scared of the disruptive EVs or anything else but Tesla is well known for shoddy quality and cutting corners from reducing break caliper size, panel alignment, steering wheel falling apart or coming off, wearing tires in few months to doors getting stuck and batteries catching fire.
Every other manufacturer you mentioned goes the responsible route and recalls vehicles to fix the issue. In fact Hyndai just had a recall with bad battery. They did the responsible thing and went on to fix it. Tesla issued 0 of such recalls, instead they have teams of people to suppress complaints. They let beta level of software run on their cars endangering thousands of lives with so claimed full self driving to a point they are now under criminal investigation. But nooo, no disabling of killer software.
Regular cars catch on fire all the time but circumstances are different. For ICE car to catch on fire fuel has to be leaking somewhere, or at least its vapors. Which also happens. Gas stations catch fire. But with regular maintenance and some rules in place this is minimized. Happens still, but a lot less.
With EV, when they catch fire it’s spontaneous and car doesn’t have to be in use and you can’t do maintenance on your battery. It’s epoxied and welded shut. It’s not the same. Also, what else is not the same is ability to douse that fire. With EV it takes a lot more water to a point where sometimes it’s easier to let it burn. This wouldn’t be as scary if Tesla didn’t have electric doors which in some cases you can’t mechanically open and when batteries go bad, doors get stuck. It’s become a meme at this point with YouTube filled with videos instructing you how to break a window or escape burning Tesla.
NACS standard specification Tesla published actually included modifications to the Tesla plug to allow for higher voltages. The current Tesla connectors on all the superchargers can’t do 800V safely.
Specification. Tesla published a specification. It can’t publish a standard, since it isn’t a standards body. J3400 will be the standard based on the specification published by Tesla after checking and possible refinements. Nitpicky, yes, but also not. Since standardization includes stuff like governance agreements, governance organization, Patent and IP licensing clearance and so on. The technical spec is only part and maybe simplest part of the standard. The really important part is the legal and contractual matter, so that when standards body does officially adopt standard everyone can use it with confidence of knowing under what terms and payment said standard is offered and that there will be no lawsuits waiting to jump out in the bushes.
Also theoretically there can be technical differences between J3400 and Tesla connector, if those changes are done in backwards compatible fashion to Tesla’s earlier plug. Not out of having to, but out of it being desired feature for utilization of existing infrastructure.
Whole point of J3400 is it isn’t the “Tesla plug” anymore, it is a plug governed by Society of Automotive Engineers. It just happened to originate from specification developed by Tesla originally.
Just like how the European Type 2 plug is sometimes called Mennekes, since Mennekes Elektrotechnik GmbH & Co. KG was the original designer. However officially and governance wise it is now the Type 2. It is governed by IEC, not by Mennekes anymore.
Specification. Tesla published a specification. It can’t publish a standard, since it isn’t a standards body.
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Whole point of J3400 is it isn’t the “Tesla plug” anymore, it is a plug governed by Society of Automotive Engineers. It just happened to originate from specification developed by Tesla originally.
That’s why I specifically called out the Tesla plug on their vehicles and superchargers vs the NACS plug.
Looks like there is a 1000V variant. I’m guessing there just aren’t any chargers built with it yet.
North American Charging Standard Technical Specification 6. Ratings 6.1 Voltage Rating The North American Charging Standard exists in both a 500V rated configuration and a 1,000V rated configuration. The 1,000V version is mechanically backwards compatible (i.e. 500V inlets can mate with 1,000V connectors and 500V connectors can mate with 1,000V inlets)
IIRC, Tesla claims their connector is rated for 1kV as well, and at a slightly higher total power rating than NACS. They haven’t actually fielded chargers above 400V, though. It seems though that the general consensus is that the NACS connector is actually more or equally capable overall compared to the CCS (J1772) connector, in a smaller form-factor. At first I thought it was a pretty odd switch, but now that it’s an open standard managed by SAE and the specs seem to be at worst comparable… it’s not exactly a bad idea for the OEMs to use it.
Actually, it’s not just another plug. The fact that the same Pins are used for AC and DC charging adds a little bit more complexity to the car. Either you need additional switches in the car to separate the Onboard AC-Charger from the charging port, or the AC-Charger must be designed to withstand an DC input on its AC-Input contacts. That probably won’t be the biggest problem when the DC-voltage is just around 400V, as the AC-voltage is not that far away.
But if you switch to 800V Batteries (which most of the industry is doing), that probably could get more challenging, as the AC-charging-voltage won’t change.
We‘ll see what the car industries solution will be.
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