Well, the good news is that NACS is looking to be the defacto connector for North America. That will effectively replace j1772, CCS, and kill off the last vestiges of chademo. Essentially every...
Well, the good news is that NACS is looking to be the defacto connector for North America. That will effectively replace j1772, CCS, and kill off the last vestiges of chademo. Essentially every major ev producer has announced switching to NACS.
Explanation why: NACS vs CCS part II: Europe won't move https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/nacs-vs-ccs-part-ii-europe-wont-move-f%C3%A9lix-amyot TLDR: all Tesla's in Europe have CCSII and Europe has...
It's a bit of a shame, for a brief moment it looked like CCS2 could have become an actual global standard. But it was also expected due to the number of Teslas already around that NA would try to...
It's a bit of a shame, for a brief moment it looked like CCS2 could have become an actual global standard. But it was also expected due to the number of Teslas already around that NA would try to use something based off of that.
I find this an amusing reminder of the old cat-o-ninetails charger cords we used to have to buy to charge our cellphones if god forbid the included one got lost or frayed. The mental image of a...
I find this an amusing reminder of the old cat-o-ninetails charger cords we used to have to buy to charge our cellphones if god forbid the included one got lost or frayed. The mental image of a massive version of that at every station for EVs makes me giggle a little.
Oh god... Remember the kits with, like, 19 different barrel connectors that plugged into the charger? And hoping one would fit in your phone? (Promises of compatibility on the package did not...
Oh god... Remember the kits with, like, 19 different barrel connectors that plugged into the charger? And hoping one would fit in your phone? (Promises of compatibility on the package did not always mean much).
Yesssss. People complain about USB C taking forever to be standardized but lol they don't remember the nightmare of pretty much every phone having proprietary connectors. If you needed to charge...
Yesssss. People complain about USB C taking forever to be standardized but lol they don't remember the nightmare of pretty much every phone having proprietary connectors. If you needed to charge your phone while out with a friend, there was zero chance they had a charger you could borrow.
I just yesterday found my old ipod nano 6th gen and decided to charge it and put some music on it so I could use it on walks. I dug around in The Cable Drawer™ and found a bag of connector...
I just yesterday found my old ipod nano 6th gen and decided to charge it and put some music on it so I could use it on walks.
I dug around in The Cable Drawer™ and found a bag of connector adapters with a 30-pin one.
I charged it for a while and then went to sync it.
But I forgot that the later ipod nanos don't do the "mount as filesystem" thing where I can just drag and drop music on, so I had to boot into windows to install the awful version of itunes apple makes for it.
Then I found out itunes doesn't support flac files so I had to download ffmpeg and convert my music to alac.
Then I had to go hunting in the itunes settings trying to figure out why it wasn't syncing until I realized the 30-pin adapter only charges, it doesn't allow data transfer.
So I went back to The Cable Drawer™ and dug until I found the single 30-pin cable I still have.
That little adventure reinforced my love for usb-c and dislike of proprietary hardware/software.
Well, the good news is that NACS is looking to be the defacto connector for North America. That will effectively replace j1772, CCS, and kill off the last vestiges of chademo. Essentially every major ev producer has announced switching to NACS.
EU looks to be married to the CCS2 standard
Explanation why: NACS vs CCS part II: Europe won't move
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/nacs-vs-ccs-part-ii-europe-wont-move-f%C3%A9lix-amyot
TLDR: all Tesla's in Europe have CCSII and Europe has better power infrastructure which is better suited for CCSII.
It's a bit of a shame, for a brief moment it looked like CCS2 could have become an actual global standard. But it was also expected due to the number of Teslas already around that NA would try to use something based off of that.
I find this an amusing reminder of the old cat-o-ninetails charger cords we used to have to buy to charge our cellphones if god forbid the included one got lost or frayed. The mental image of a massive version of that at every station for EVs makes me giggle a little.
Oh god... Remember the kits with, like, 19 different barrel connectors that plugged into the charger? And hoping one would fit in your phone? (Promises of compatibility on the package did not always mean much).
Yesssss. People complain about USB C taking forever to be standardized but lol they don't remember the nightmare of pretty much every phone having proprietary connectors. If you needed to charge your phone while out with a friend, there was zero chance they had a charger you could borrow.
I just yesterday found my old ipod nano 6th gen and decided to charge it and put some music on it so I could use it on walks.
I dug around in The Cable Drawer™ and found a bag of connector adapters with a 30-pin one.
I charged it for a while and then went to sync it.
But I forgot that the later ipod nanos don't do the "mount as filesystem" thing where I can just drag and drop music on, so I had to boot into windows to install the awful version of itunes apple makes for it.
Then I found out itunes doesn't support flac files so I had to download ffmpeg and convert my music to alac.
Then I had to go hunting in the itunes settings trying to figure out why it wasn't syncing until I realized the 30-pin adapter only charges, it doesn't allow data transfer.
So I went back to The Cable Drawer™ and dug until I found the single 30-pin cable I still have.
That little adventure reinforced my love for usb-c and dislike of proprietary hardware/software.