Model S charge plug & socket adapters

[strider]

The design studio says the UMC will come with a 120V adapter and a 240V adapter of your choice.

 

[doug]

At the 2012 shareholders meeting around 53:00 Elon said the adapters would come with the car.

He also said the car would be able to charge anywhere and given the context of the question I took it to imply there would be CHAdeMO and SAE Combo plug adapters as well.

 

[KBF]

Someone posted in another thread an answer he got from Tesla (forget who and where... hundreds of postings in the last couple of days). The response was that it's NEMA 14-50.

Yes. I got that confirmed at the Toronto event (and others have as well). I seem to recall them also saying that different areas will have different adapters coming with the car (ie. it's pointless to have certain adapters where the infrastructure does not exist). I didn't ask him to clarify the comment - he may have been referring to 3-phase in Europe, or the fact that in Manitoba we basically have nothing beyond NEMA 14-50 anyway.

 

[vfx]

Tesla new Charging Page has new info.

PS
Tesla webteam I think the faucet is broken.

 

[VolkerP]

I made a preview of the EU version of the charge calculator section:

 

[widodh]

I made a preview of the EU version of the charge calculator section:
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Nice!

I'd replace the socket with a Type 2 socket Since you'll not be able to charge on 3-phases in Mode 1.

 

[dsm363]

So that's confirmation of 3-phase 32A then? Maybe not as high as some were hoping but still, not bad.

 

[Kevin Sharpe]

So that's confirmation of 3-phase 32A then? Maybe not as high as some were hoping but still, not bad.

I think it's just wishful thinking... "I made a preview of the EU version of the charge calculator section"

 

[dsm363]

I think it's just wishful thinking... "I made a preview of the EU version of the charge calculator section"

Oh, I missed that he said he 'made' that picture. Hopefully that's at least what they're shooting for.

 

[VolkerP]

To be clear: I faked that picture. The "on-board charger" is a BRUSA NLG6. In contrast to that, Tesla indicated they might cram 3 of their 10kW on-board units into the charger bay, connecting each one to a different phase, and deal with the excess thermal load. I am by no way qualified to judge the electric efficiency of that, but the economical efficiency seems to be top priority here.

 

[Kevin Sharpe]

Tesla indicated they might cram 3 of their 10kW on-board units into the charger bay, connecting each one to a different phase, and deal with the excess thermal load.

my guess is they will deal with the thermal issue by derating the three chargers to ~22kW total

 

[Lloyd]

my guess is they will deal with the thermal issue by derating the three chargers to ~22kW total

They are water (coolant) cooled, so that should not be a problem!

 

[AndrewBissell]

I hope they can keep the 30kW capacity.

 

[jcstp]

time of charging does not change when you increase the distance or change from 1 to 2 chargers or change type of plug