lpickup wrote:
I actually think the combined connector is a pretty elegant solution...
edatoakrun wrote:
To what "problem"?
lpickup wrote:
To needing a vehicle that can accept both AC and DC charging.
This is not a "Problem”. The ability to fast-charge on DC is the essential capability, that will allow BEVs to replace ICEVs as the predominant private vehicle design, in the US, in the near future.
This will produce great benefits not only to American drivers, but also to America’s economy and national security.
Most importantly, it will allow Americans to maintain the advantages than individual vehicles have produced, while greatly reducing the adverse environmental effects that ICEVs impose.
In contrast, if I owned a Toyota, Honda, Ford, or GM (Volt) EV that did not have DC capability, I
would have a serious “problem”.
And, IMO, since these manufactures can’t or won’t build a competitive mass-market BEV, they have pursued the entirely predictable self-interested corporate course of business, of trying to delay American DC capable BEV sales, by Nissan and Mitsubishi, by delaying the infrastructure rollout.
In the long run, it will not matter much if either the SAE or DC standard, both, prevail, or if another standard soon supersedes both.
The disingenuous efforts of some auto manufactures to create and to promote this “controversy” however, will both inconvenience DC capable BEV drivers like myself, for whom DC stations today would allow greatly increased BEV use, and will delay the conversion of America’s vehicle fleet from ICEVs to BEVs.
And this will certainly effect my decision, to buy any vehicle, from any one of these manufactures, in the future.
