All they are discussing is Magic Dock and some clunky adapter they are accepting pre-orders on. They do not have a working prototype, because it won't work!
Other than the few Magic Dock sites which use retrofitted V3 chargers, none of the other sites can work for 3rd party vehicles. They do not show up on the Tesla app, thus there is no way to authorize them. One of the main reasons Tesla will not support this, is because of the cable length issue. The Tesla whip is only about 5 feet in total and the pedestal is positioned so that it will reach the right rear quarter of all Tesla vehicles where the charge port is located. I'm not aware of any other vehicles with this port location, thus they won't reach without parking gymnastics (blocking multiple stalls), so Tesla doesn't want a Chevy Bolt charging at 45kW for an hour to block multiple stalls on a busy site thus preventing their customers from using them. Tesla figured this out pretty fast, and designed the new V4 supercharger with a much longer cable and more central pedestal location, so it will easily reach other EVs. V4 will also have CCS PLC (Power Line Communication) which is covered by DIN 70121 natively, so it can speak to other EVs. The only adapter needed will be passive (no protocol conversion electronics), as the supercharger will speak both Supercharger protocol and PLC native. Tesla will probably not want 3rd party adapters of dubious quality to be used on their sites, so I doubt they will authorize this. There is a lot that could go wrong, and they don't want any more EV fires to be associated with them. Search for "Tesla V4 Supercharger" on the web if you want to see the design differences. On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 12:10 PM Lawrence Rhodes <primobass...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > https://evadept.com/tesla-supercharger-to-ccs-adapter-guide/ Sorry for > the confusion. Here is what is designed to work at Superchargers for CCS > vehicles. Lawrence Rhodes > _._,_._,_ > ------------------------------ > Groups.io Links: > > You receive all messages sent to this group. > > View/Reply Online (#2229) <https://groups.io/g/GGEVA/message/2229> | Reply > To Group <gg...@groups.io?subject=Re:%20%5BGGEVA%5D%20Magic%20Dock> | Reply > To Sender > <primobass...@sbcglobal.net?subject=Private:%20Re:%20%5BGGEVA%5D%20Magic%20Dock> > | Mute This Topic <https://groups.io/mt/99683310/2384446> | New Topic > <https://groups.io/g/GGEVA/post> > Your Subscription <https://groups.io/g/GGEVA/editsub/2384446> | Contact > Group Owner <ggeva+ow...@groups.io> | Unsubscribe > <https://groups.io/g/GGEVA/leave/4855485/2384446/1451429038/xyzzy> [ > p...@ingineerix.com] > _._,_._,_ > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20230621/f23d7894/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org No other addresses in TO and CC fields HELP: http://www.evdl.org/help/
