The EA sites you will be able to select from the 3 KW it offers, we have a whole bunch coming soon in San Diego and I have them marked to notify me when they become available on the EA app. 75kw 150kw and 350kw... I’ve ordered the adapter a few days ago so i will go out and test all 3, Blink, Charge Point & EVGo.
LOL. Came to reply to this (since you replied to the post about the 50 kW limit), clicked next page ,.. saw everything I was about to say already posted
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Are you just trying to verify it works on all networks or are you expecting to get more than 50kW? If the latter, you’ll be disappointed because the adapter is limited to 50kW.
As of today, the Chademo outlets at the EA sites are limited to 50kW (only the CCS outlets can deliver more). But more importantly, the Tesla adapter is limited to 50kW, even if you find a charger that supports more.
Many 50kW CHAdeMO stations are limited to 120A output, hence with a nominal 350V battery, they charge in the low 40’s at low SOC and ramp up to near 50kW at higher SOC. The CHAdeMO adapter is limited to 125A and thus a higher power station will let it charge at the full 125A vs 120A. In reality this difference is not very significant though; it will still take a long time to charge.
This last point is something many new or prospective EV owners don’t understand. Heck, probably even a lot of long-time EV owners. I thought I’d just expand on that.
The stations don’t have a “power” limit in kW that is standalone, they have two underlying limits, a voltage limit (Volts) and a current limit (Amps). Power (kW) = Volts x Amps.
I guess it’s easier to express one number, so that’s the way things are marketed.
So you see people disappointed their car can only draw low 40s kW from a 50 kW charger and think something is wrong with their car, when they’ve actually just bumped up against the current (Amps) limit already and can’t see the max 50 kW unless they also get to the max Voltage (and depending on the car they have, and the SoC they are at, they might
literally never get there). This can be confusing if you only look at power.
e.g. “I know my car get nearly double this rate at a 125 kW charger, something must be wrong with this 50kW charger”.
Tesla has a great charging advantage with their parallel battery architecture. It really lets them suck in a lot of Amps and spread it out to different cells taking advantage of the higher power charge stations available. Some cars with different battery design can’t go that high with current, so yes you might get from low 40s at a 50kW up to actual 50 at a 75kW station for example, but you won’t be seeing many of the competiton max out these high power charging stations with the current battery pack designs.
It would be great if the cars advertised their max charging current input so you could compare up front more easily. e.g. say the Kona has a 200A limit but the 3 is a 400A limit (I made up these numbers) ... this might clue people in “oh, there’s something different going on here”.