bradtem
Robocar consultant
That is their policy in theory, but I would not think they could detect this adapter, certainly not that quickly. It is possible the adapters have some properties which can be detected by the charging station, and that Volta might try to do that, but even if this is possible, and Volta decided to do that, I would be amazed that they got samples of this adapter so quickly and coded this in to their stations.I bought the Lectron CCS adapter in anticipation of having my model S retrofitted for CCS.
However my friend just bought a new Model Y.
So we tried the adapter on his car at a Volta CCS station. We couldn’t get it to work.
We then went to a Electrify America station and it did work fine.
I contacted Volta about our problem at their station.
Here is one line of their response:
“ Please note: Our network does not support the use of 3rd party CSS adapters that are not explicitly approved by the manufacturer.”
Does this sound right?
The main reason they would have a rule like this is liability, so they can say "we're not liable if you used that adapter," so I would not think block them would be urgent.