On 16/01/2014 20:52, "Cor van de Water" <[email protected]> wrote:
>I was under the impression that the EU solution for charging was that >everyone carries their charging cord with them, as the chargers only have >a Mennekes plug, no cord, so you need to use your own cord to go from >Mennekes to whatever your car uses, for example J1772. So I would >*expect* that what you call non-standard adaptor cable is actually the >normal situation, no? In the EU we do both at public charging locations. For AC power levels at or below 22kW we have a Type 2 (³mennekes²) socket at the Charging Station and expect the driver to carry a cable to match their car. For example, a Leaf driver will carry a Type 2 (³mennekes²) to Type 1 (³J1772²) cable. However, for power levels above 22kW the Charging Station has a Type 2 cable permanently attached and the car is expected to have a Type 2 socket. Cars like the BMW i3 and Tesla Model S use a Type 2 socket in the car so this is only a problem for older cars like the Leaf with Type 1 sockets. The advantage of Type 2 is it¹s support for 3 Phase charging which is very widely deployed in consumers homes across the EU. Kevin Sharpe | Founder & Patron | Zero Carbon World is a UK Registered Charity #1141347 _______________________________________________ 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)
