kmp647 said:
Good to know there are 8 ccs chargers. While I think it's the smarter design you have to look at the 500 plus chademo existing and wonder when there might be 500 ccs?
I'm on the east coast and have 8 dcfc in the area of md, dc and northern va. Ccs count is zero
The main supplier of dcfc in this area? Evgo , and Nissan dealers. Obviously Nissan won't be adding ccs, and evgo indicates not much of a chance of ccs being added. All of he evgo units are sumitomo dcfc.
Can they even be modified for ccs?
Used them a fair bit, will be hard to give up if I choose another BEV such as i3 or vw
NRG (evGO) is required to provide CCS on the 200 QCs they're installing in Ca. in the next three years, once a trigger has been reached. I forget the exact details, but it's something like it kicks in six months after: a car is available that has it (done); and UL-listed CCS chargers are available from two different companies. ABB's is already UL-listed. Efacec's is ETL-listed but I don't know if that's acceptable, and I'm not sure what the status of Eaton's, IES or any of the others is. As to outside California, who knows. It will take one or more of the auto companies or the government to support installations.
Edit. Okay, found a post from Tony Williams over on tmc that gives the details:
Initially all Freedom Stations [Note: NRG evGO in Ca.] shall have:
one (1) or more DC Fast Chargers compatible with the CHAdeMo
Standard and
one (1) Level 2 Charger compatible with the SAE
Standard.
Upon the occurrence of
(A) approval by SAE for a
charger standard for DC Fast Chargers and
(B) the commercial availability from at least two (2) unaffiliated manufacturers of one
or more DC Fast Chargers that are SAE Standard compatible or
equipment capable of making the Freedom Stations’ DC Fast
Chargers compatible with both the SAE Standard and the
CHAdeMo Standard (and in each case that are approved by the
Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratories),
then NRG shall have six (6) months to complete the modification of all installed
Freedom Stations to include at least one (1) SAE Standard
compatible DC Fast Charger and one (1) CHAdeMo Standard
compatible DC Fast Charger or one (1) CHAdeMo+SAE DC
Charger. Thereafter, all newly installed Freedom Stations will
have at least one (1) DC Fast Charger that is SAE Standard
compatible.