dhanson865 said:
TonyWilliams said:
Our adaptor that will accept a Tesla HPWC / UMC plug and then plug into a J1772 inlet on virtually every car sold in North America will be $200-$300.
Available late 2015.
and then the person wanting to use this has to pay Tesla $2000 per car on top of the adapter to enable the charging?
Are you really developing a solution to allow a random car to charge at a supercharger?
That's not what Tony is doing. His adapter is for Tesla's AC charging stations, which are just 240v Level 2 stations that have Tesla connectors on them instead of J1772. Tesla has been installing these at hotels and restaurants, plus many have been installed by Tesla owners around the country. Tony's adapter would allow other EVs to use these Level 2 stations.
As others have said, creating an adapter for Tesla's DC charging stations (aka Superchargers) would be extremely difficult, as the communications between the car and Supercharger would need to be completely reverse engineered AND you'd have to find a way to trick the Supercharger into authenticating your vehicle (perhaps by passing it a valid Tesla VIN? Who knows). That would clearly be unethical and would constitute theft of electricity. Even if you were able to get around all these issues, the Supercharger adapter would need to plug into your Leaf's CHAdeMO port (DC) rather than your J1772 port (AC).