You and the OP could always buy Tesla's CHAdeMO adapter if that's enough to help fill in the gaps.
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Any US CCS updates?
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Tesla appears to have stopped selling it. It’s no longer on their website.
Not clear what's going on w/it vanishing from Tesla | Charging and their old links being 404 on their US site. I wonder if it'll pop back up in the future.
Tesla CCS adapter coming to US. Will your car support it?
All Tesla models in Europe either have a CCS or the older Type 2 charge ports instead of Tesla's proprietary port. This lets Tesla owners charge at a variety o
www.notateslaapp.com
TomServo
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Some recent and good info.
www.notateslaapp.com
Tesla CCS adapter coming to US. Will your car support it?
All Tesla models in Europe either have a CCS or the older Type 2 charge ports instead of Tesla's proprietary port. This lets Tesla owners charge at a variety o
www.notateslaapp.com
Not really much new here - it was already 'out there' that most older Model S/X wouldn't support this new adapter.Tesla CCS adapter coming to US. Will your car support it?
All Tesla models in Europe either have a CCS or the older Type 2 charge ports instead of Tesla's proprietary port. This lets Tesla owners charge at a variety o
I open up the Shop tab at tesla.com every morning, leave it open and refresh frequently throughout the day, waiting for the CCS adapter for NA to get added.....!
I'm still refreshing the Tesla shop several times a day....
I have a feeling that if it is reasonably priced it will sell out instantly as soon as it showed up in the Tesla shop.
Keith
My guess is that EVgo bought the whole lot for inclusion with their CHAdeMO stations. I dunno whether Tesla will build more CHAdeMO.
The higher-level answer is that CCS was developed by a committee of people from organizations who did not want EVs (ICE manufacturers) and hated Tesla (although they didn't take Tesla very seriously).
In addition to the clunky design, the committee delayed ratification of the standard until after Tesla started delivering the Model S to customers. I believe (not confirmed) that the original CCS was also limited to 50 kW charging speed and it wasn't until Tesla started clobbering Porsche in the market that the standard was changed to allow 300 KW so Porsche could claim superiority.
Fixed that for you.
The real answer is that the J1772 plug (by itself, without the CCS pins) was designed to handle up to 50 KW DC fast charging, and was nearly as "small and sexy" as the proprietary Tesla plug. When they decided that 50 KW wasn't going to be "future prof" they added the large diameter DC pins (much larger than the pins in the Tesla connector OR the J1772 connector) to the bottom of the connector (now called the CCS connector) and abandoned the idea of using the original small diameter charging pins for DC fast charging. The Chevy Bolt had faster than 50 KW charging from start of production, and a "modern" CCS equipped car that charges at less than 125 KW is considered "off the pace" with the majority charging at 150 KW or more. Several CCS equipped cars now exceed the 250 KW that V3 superchargers are capable of. Across the Atlantic, the EU said "F off with your proprietary plug" and Tesla said "yes boss" and nobody comes up with these off the wall conspiracy theories about how this was a plot to destroy Tesla in Europe do they? If so, post up a link... I need a good laugh.
Keith
- for Canada. We don't have even that update to control Sentry mode video from you phone. 
Maybe, but I don't see myself buying one off Amazon. For something handling this much energy, I'd rather await the Tesla version.
Yeah, I'm fine with the AC adapters for the mobile connector, but those are maxing at like 50 amps. This thing has the ability to pass 400 amps. It needs to be built absolutely correctly.
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