CHAdeMO Adapter

[Panu]

Did not ask but if I were you I would call up and ask

Yeah :smile:, actually I'm going to get my S85 in late April (current estimate) so I'm not that much in hurry, just very interested. Anyway very nice to hear you got the adapter. That probably means I'm going to get one when I get my car.

 

[skn]

Skn's location in its profile is Amsterdam, so it should be the European version?

Yup, I am based in Amsterdam and so is the S.

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Hmm... I just got a notification of a software update. Given that I did update to 6.1 recently, this new message seems odd. Anyway wont have time to update till night. Will let you know if it is anything related to CHAdeMO or just incremental fixes dripping through.

 

[pvh]

Ok, seems this topic is moved? It was previously located at the Dutch section.

 

[skn]

Ok, seems this topic is moved? It was previously located at the Dutch section.

Looks like it. I thought the US market had the adapter from long time ago and it was only recently released in EU/NL.

 

[widodh]

Looks like it. I thought the US market had the adapter from long time ago and it was only recently released in EU/NL.

No, you are a very special Tesla owner at the moment

 

[pvh]

Why is this topic moved? This is related to the Dutch market....

 

[Matias]

Why is this topic moved? This is related to the Dutch market....

You are The Only known Tesla owner outside Japan to have Chademo (if we exclude NDA beta owners)

 

[skn]

You are The Only known Tesla owner outside Japan to have Chademo (if we exclude NDA beta owners)

I may know why, but can't elaborate though.

 

[Matias]

 

[T.blomer]

Love to see some more pictures about the charging power. Hope it will reach at least 50kW. That would really help in areas where there is no supercharger and destination charging is not possible.

 

[skn]

Love to see some more pictures about the charging power. Hope it will reach at least 50kW. That would really help in areas where there is no supercharger and destination charging is not possible.

I will try to drain the battery and then try to charge. Anything else I need to do?

 

[T.blomer]

To be honest, I don't know if there is difference between different Chademo chargers. I would be specially interested in the power of the new TheNewMotion chargers and the FastNed chargers.

 

[Cottonwood]

I will try to drain the battery and then try to charge. Anything else I need to do?

I think that this will be very CHAdeMO charger dependent. Most chargers have a current and a power limit.

For example, the Nissan CHAdeMO units are limited to 125 Amps and 50 kW. A nearly empty battery on an 85 is about 360 Volts. 360V * 125A = 45kW, so a nearly empty battery will only get 45kW from such a charger. When nearly full, the 85 battery is at about 400V, and 400V*125A=50kW, but the 85 can't accept 50kW at that State of charge.

Every CHAdeMO will be a little different in it's limitations and how well it can charge a Tesla.

Let's just hope that the sustained power draw of an MS does not cook too many CHAdeMO chargers that were tested with much lower capacity cars. If the CHAdeMO interface provides charger make/model info, then Tesla may be throttling charger draw on known weaker chargers to avoid overloading CHAdeMO's designed to charge a car the size of a Leaf.

 

[randompersonx]

I'd also suggest to test out going from a low state of charge to 90% to see the maximum charge rate at the low end, and make sure that the charger does't overheat by the time it's nearly full.

 

[mgboyes]

Apparently there are 30 units in the UK going out to early reservation holders by the end of this week.

I am not one of them :-(

 

[Gerardf]

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wow, it Is real.. AND it is indeed the European version.

 

[arg]

I thought superchargers used PLC signaling like the CCS standard. It was previously said Model S just needed a dumb CCS adapter as opposed to CHAdeMO needing an active adapter.

That's what many of us believed, based on public statements from Tesla about it being "the same as SAE DC, apart from the connector".

However, when people started reverse-engineering the protocol (there was a thread on here about a year ago) the Supercharger turns out to be a simple CAN bus over the pilot pins, so actually closer in some senses to CHAdeMO than to CCS.

 

[widodh]

I got an e-mail from Tesla that I'm number 59 on the waitinglist for the adapter.

Now skn got his one in NL/EU I hope I'll receive mine soon!

 

[T.blomer]

I got an e-mail from Tesla that I'm number 59 on the waitinglist for the adapter.

Now skn got his one in NL/EU I hope I'll receive mine soon!

When did you order your adapter? I ordered mine in March of last year.

 

[widodh]

When did you order your adapter? I ordered mine in March of last year.

13-06-2013. No, 2013 is not a typo.