If you look carefully each EA charger is made by a different manufacturer that is listed on the unit. So just like you can tell the difference between a V2 and a V3 Supercharger you can tell the difference between the various manufacturers and know what to expect.
Yeah. Prior to their next gen units, I know their units from BTC Power, ABB, Signet (v1 and v2) and Efacec.
As I think I've pointed out several times here on TMC, from left to right at
DCFC reliability – An open Letter to Electrify America are: BTC Power, ABB, Efacec (probably all goners, I've never seen nor used one and many have been ripped out), Signet "v1" (I've never personally seen nor used one but they exist(ed?) in CA). Supposedly those Efacecs were crap.
DCFC reliability – An open Letter to Electrify America shows Signet "v2". Ditto for MarkG's post #3808.
EA is trying to gussy them all out as the same by painting and lighting them similarly (and running the same software)
Yeah, next gen dispensers (one at
Electrify America general discussion) can be from BTC Power or SK Signet. I added used
Harden Ranch Plaza - Walmart | PlugShare and added the pics there. When I was there on 1/1/23, the 3 next gen dispensers were SK Signet.
I don't want to post wrong info but IIRC, Kyle of
https://www.youtube.com/@OutofSpecReviews/videos had mentioned before that w/the new dispensers, you could have dispensers from a different company than the chargers (which are in cabinets elsewhere). I don't recall if the chargers now come from only one company vs. both.
EA has been seemingly replacing ABB hardware with next gen during their upgrades. They tweet about their upgrades at
https://twitter.com/electrifyam. The above Harden Ranch site in Salinas, CA formerly had ABB. They left an ABB dispenser for the CCS1 + CHAdeMO unit in another part of the parking lot. You can see a mismatch at
. I've charged at EA Santa Clarita before (
Walmart Supercenter | PlugShare) and it was all ABB before.
And yes, EA's kW labeling can be a bit goofy. As I mentioned at
Lucid Motors Air - Page 6 - My Nissan Leaf Forum, I saw a Lucid Air test vehicle pull 166 kW on 150 kW EA chargers. That whole site is only 150 kW max and were all BTC Power.