I fully agree. Even the "Euro" Tesla high power connector would have been preferable to CCS combo-2. The engineers did a great job on both. Tesla management could have capitalised on that 10 years ago, but did not.
On Thu, Dec 15, 2022 at 9:16 PM (-Phil-) via EV <[email protected]> wrote: > Having a lot of experience with all 3 connectors and being an Electrical > Engineer, I have to say Tesla's connector is superior to CCS or CHAdeMO. > It's more rugged, cheaper to manufacture, and uses less space and > materials. If Tesla had "opened" its standard before CCS was ratified, > then maybe they would have had a chance at being a standard. > > Too little too late. Now Tesla is going to have to add the clunky CCS > connectors to its network at considerable expense. > > On Thu, Dec 15, 2022 at 7:09 PM John Lussmyer via EV <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > On 12/15/2022 6:12 PM, EV List Lackey via EV wrote: > > > On 15 Dec 2022 at 11:23, Evan Tuer via EV wrote: > > > > > >> I know that they are trying to get the Tesla plug legislated as the US > > >> standard but that's inevitably going to fail and seems rather bad > faith. > > > Oh great. That's much like what GM did with the EV1 inductive paddle. > > What > > > a dead end that was. > > The one thing is that the Tesla plug can handle more current, and is > > easier for the end user. > > _______________________________________________ > > Address messages to [email protected] > > No other addresses in TO and CC fields > > HELP: http://www.evdl.org/help/ > > > > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20221215/3d357e5a/attachment.htm > > > _______________________________________________ > Address messages to [email protected] > No other addresses in TO and CC fields > HELP: http://www.evdl.org/help/ > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20221216/17356d58/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ Address messages to [email protected] No other addresses in TO and CC fields HELP: http://www.evdl.org/help/
