Good point. I have seen the one special stall. I was thinking more of Euro? style where all the stalls have side chargers.Almost very supercharger i frequent now has at least one. It’s a regular spot except instead of the charger being at the back of the spot it’s right across from the charge port when parked. Something like this you pull into forwards.
Each of them are simply pass throughs, which lessens the issue. Any decently made CCS to NACS adapter won't have any issue at 500 amps and neither will EVJect. Now there are a lot of bad adapters out there flooding Amazon and Alibaba... but I'd hope Applegreen didn't utilize a bad one. The other alternative is the A2Z Cybertruck adapter, which is a really well made unit.
Agreed. I wonder if passive cooling air-cooled extension cables can really become a thing with the higher amperage charging since it seems liquid-cooling is almost mandatory in these cases to safely avoid heat build-up and derating. Especially in warmer climates.
Tesla's solution is simply V4 cabinets. They won't retrofit V3s with longer cables (some technical cooling issues) and the V4s just have longer cables attached. Though they won't be long enough for every situation still.yep if you own a CT in the NJ area, you need an A2Z ccs to nacs adapter or one with a similar extended nacs side. the nacs applegreen chargers on the turnpike do NOT work on CTs.
if you have something mounted in the hitch like a bike rack, or shelf or spare tire, etc - unless th SCs are arranged so that the thing in the hitch fits between them like this:
and there are definitely some that wont allow for this, then you either have to wait for a pull into/through slot or take up a bunch of spots, or demount your hitch jawn.
and then theres the rest of the world that now able to use our charging infrastructure - their ports are all over the place.
an extension although presently unsafe will be useful for those cases. or maybe they can just lenghten all the cords - which yeah youmight have heat issues still.
With NACS being a published standard, it is certainly possible to do this. The communication isn't overly complicated.
Those of us who tow an RV are one example of an extension market...scarcity of "pull-through" charging stations means we have to find a place to unhitch, go charge, re-hitch. If an extension were safe and feasible, many times charging stations are available from opposite side of normal parking space, and relieves the hitch-unhitch routine. I'm aware of the non-feasibility/safety of current extension status, but if this changes I'd be a customer.
as has been said many times. “yep.” I dont want one that is zero approved. the company doesnt appear to want to sell one thats zero approved, as its been not available for awhile.
Not a single person here has such a truck. We all purchased rigorously tested vehicles.
No, they didn't specify "Tesla approved", just "validated". Anyone can validate their own product.
"Disclaimer: NACS EVject may get hot during supercharging sessions from 0-35% when the charger exceeds its own amp rating. Please handle with care until EVject and charger wand cool down. EVject has been tested up to • 252 kW on Superchargers• 330 kW on CCS1 chargers. We don't recommend charging at rates above that at this time."
