CCS Adaptor - First Look

[WannabeOwner]

https://electrek.co/2019/04/03/tesla-ccs-adapter-first-look/

No actual details, but some photos

 

[Terry_B58]

Looks very neat.

So glad I put off buying the Chademo.

*edit* Looks like it needs to be the other way round to enable CCS to Type II :-(

 

[Saghost]

Interesting. One molded plastic piece like the J1772 adapter, not a cable like the CHAdeMO. I wonder if it has any electronics, or if it's a simple adapter like the J1772 and they've made the car speak CCS.

 

[WannabeOwner]

Might as well put the photos here, there isn't any "Guts" in the Electrek article

Pretty dinky

 

[arg]

*edit* Looks like it needs to be the other way round to enable CCS to Type II :-(

It's the right way round for allowing you to use public CCS stations in place of your CHAdeMO adapter.

Interesting. One molded plastic piece like the J1772 adapter, not a cable like the CHAdeMO. I wonder if it has any electronics, or if it's a simple adapter like the J1772 and they've made the car speak CCS.

I think it's fairly clearly a passive adapter. An active adapter was always going to be problematic as (unlike CHAdeMO) there's no source of power to run the internal electronics, and full protocol conversion in the adapter would be hard work (quite a lot of electronics).

The photo doesn't actually prove how this is resolved - it COULD just be an adapter enabling use at superchargers, with no protocol conversion (and hence no support of third-party CCS). However, there have been rumours elsewhere that the adapter would also need an upgrade to the car. An upgrade in the car to support CCS protocol could be a fairly simple plug-and-play option on existing wiring harnesses, probably needing a service centre visit but only a brief one.

 

[Terry_B58]

It's the right way round for allowing you to use public CCS stations in place of your CHAdeMO adapter.

On further inspection it appears so.

I am sure there needs to be some 'handshaking' protocol, which doesn't look like this unit could do the required.

Hopefully, when they are 'for sale' then these could be a good purchase.