It is interesting that you mention a faster level-3/type-3 quick charge standard. I have a news piece that I found last night. I have it queued for later date for a couple of reasons:
-usually not many care about EVSE, so its importance is less that other topics that have shown more interest (I have learned to tune what I post to keep interest, and try to not to raise anyone's ire). -by delaying, I can also pick up any other newswires that are on the same L3 EVSE topic, that offer more info or other perspectives. But I may bump up that item's posting, since there seems to be interest. That newswire mentions four plus one, essentially five different charging standard now in place: Japan's CHAdeMO, GM-pushed 'Combo 1' in the U.S., 'Combo 2' in Germany, GBT in China, and lastly, Tesla’s 'proprietary Supercharger network that delivers much higher power rates ...' IMO ... now wouldn't it be cool if Tesla offered their lo/med/hi-powered charging protocol/standard at an affordable cost that all plugins could use. A slim, light weight, elegant coupler/connector that can transfer from very high to level-1 power levels ... ::sweet:: Perhaps, only Tesla EVs that have paid for free SuperCharger use (either embedded in a model's purchase price, or as an optional purchase). But there could be pay-to-use EVSE offering the Tesla charging standard. All the other charging standard hardware (mentioned above) could be swapped-out/decommissioned, and sent to GM (they like crushing and shredding EV stuff) ... http://jcwinnie.biz/wordpress/imageSnag/Crushed_EV1s.gif {brucedp.150m.com} - On Mon, Mar 24, 2014, at 05:10 AM, Martin WINLOW wrote: > Given that LTO (Lithium Titanate or Li4Ti5O12) cells are capable > (apparently) of taking a 90% charge in 10 minutes, I was wondering if > anyone had heard if the ChaDeMo standard - or CCS, for that matter - had > an alternative charge profile available to take advantage of this higher > rate of charge compared to the 'standard' 80% in 30 minutes it currently > uses? Seems a shame that if the ChaDeMo can put out 120A at 300V the > i-Miev (and Honda Fit) can't make the most of it. > > Also, anyone with the ear of Vince Dale (ecotricity) knows if there are > any plans to increase the number of ChaDeMo chargers at any of their > existing sites yet? South Mimms seems like a good place to start. It'd > be interesting to have access to statistical data regarding peak use > times so one could avoid having to queue as I have had to twice now. - -- http://www.fastmail.fm - The way an email service should be _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
