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0 pointschroma3y ago0 comments

It's great that J1772 is ubiquitous, but it charges too slowly to be useful for road trips. It's meant for "destination charging" such as hotels and homes, where the car will be sitting around for hours. It can't substitute for fast DC charging, so it shouldn't be counted.

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DannyBee3y ago

You are sort of missing the point, i think.

Tesla is claiming that now is a good time to move to NACS because they already have 60% more NACS ports than CCS.

But this is not really right, because all those cars/charge stations also have J1772 connectors they are using and would no longer work.

1. Tesla is a lot less ubiquitous than they are claiming. J1772 + CCS is far more ubiquitous - by a factor of 3x.

2. You'd either have to retrofit or use adapters for all the J1772 stations as well (Yes, tesla ships an adapter, i know).

3. Nobody is going to do that.

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