I have never seen a CCS-only charger. Lots of CHAdeMO- only, and a few with both. Most of the new installations NOT located in Nissan dealerships seem to be both.
The CCS adapter will no doubt be smaller and less expensive, but since I already have a CHAdeMO, I doubt I'll get one. The only places likely to have CCS-only is dealerships, and those are unlikely to be Tesla-friendly for long, if at all.
I've been stuck waiting for charges many times because a Chademo was in use and all that was available was a CCS. Luckily, that is usually at the ChargePoint headquarters in Campbell, but I think that will probably change as CCS becomes more standard in the future. It's definitely time.
Maybe Tesla is waiting for the best design they can get, and will release it right before CCS becomes a pretty popular charger type to have as the only charger type available. Let's hope Tesla doesn't try to drag its feet.
An alternative is some random 3rd party company can build a CCS-Chademo adapter, that is specifically made to also be compatible with Tesla's Chademo-Tesla adapter. I know, it would be ridiculous, but I'd buy one if it was the only one available, because I already have the Chademo adapter, and I think the marketplace of those with only Chademo is already pretty large.
Actually there is a bigger problem with a CCS adapter (this was figured out a bit ago by the Nissan Leaf people wanting a CCS adapter). The communication protocal with CCS is completely 100% different than other charging solutions. Tesla & CHAdeMO have the same communication language, CCS does not. The adapter would require not only a physical harness and maybe some regulation of voltage, etc, but would require an entire component for communication translation. That is one hefty modification. Seeing as there is so very few CCS only stations, Tesla is probably spending zero time overcoming this communication hurdle. If it becomes popular...maybe. That said, a tesla to CHAdeMO adapter could be made for Nissan Leafs because of the easiness of integration.
As to what difference it was, I don't quite remember - but I *think* that CHAdeMO and Tesla use a similar type OBD analog communication while CCS uses a digital completely new language developed just for CCS (that does the exact same thing and CHAdeMO and Tesla - why build a new language???).
Communications conversion is not a hard problem for those of us used to programming that sort of thing. We've done it lots of times. E.g., lots of VM systems over all of time. Lots of emulators. Lots of Internet protocols. God, the list seems endless!
Interesting. I don't see that charger listed on Chargepoint. You might want to add it.
@jbcarioca my trunk well is also where I keep my adaptors. Currently I have a 6-50, L6-20, 14-30 and 14-50 along with the standard adaptors that Tesla provides, as well as a 15 foot NEMA 14-50 extension cord. That's a lot of stuff.
I stopped using it when everything there would get wet. Problem is, the only water proofing that area has is the bottom plastic of the car, and that easily tears, and once there's a hole in it, it starts getting wet inside the cabin area, especially that trunk well.
). Even though they both speak the same "language" (CANbus), the "dialects' are very different. You can run both protocols over CANbus (like running IP and DECnet over the same ethernet cable).
