I have the Mobile charger, CHademo adapter and green goop kit all in my trunk hole
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CHAdeMO Adapter support, Sketchpad improvements, and a searchable owners manual
200 Amp CHAdeMO is widely available today from the charger manufacturers (ABB, BTC, Efacec, etc). It's just that not many of them have been deployed with that capability turned on to go above 125A. They will be able to go even higher when someone makes a cooled CHAdeMO cable that can go 350A or 500A. 200A is the max without cooling.But not because Tesla were somehow short sighted or wanted it to be terrible.
CHAdeMO gen 1 (or whatever they call it) is rated at 62.5kW at 500V and 125A, but since Tesla architecture only goes to ~400V, you are limited to 50kW as you hit the Volts * Amps peak at 400 * 125 = 50kW.
CHAdeMO will in future (well, the standard exists I believe, but in the wild it is still relatively new and unsupported, with most "capable" chargers forced to gen 1 speeds intentionally by the operators) update support higher amperages and voltages both, but this would require a new adapter to be made to support it, which won't really make sense to do so since CCS Type 1/2 would still be better, I believe.
Do you know why the CHAdeMO threshold for needing liquid cooling is so much lower than Tesla ?They will be able to go even higher when someone makes a cooled CHAdeMO cable that can go 350A or 500A. 200A is the max without cooling.
Japanese design is extremely conservative. Why else would they make such a massive connector?Do you know why the CHAdeMO threshold for needing liquid cooling is so much lower than Tesla ?
Perhaps, but that is a huge difference -- upwards of a 4x difference in allowed power.Japanese design is extremely conservative.
More likely, it has to do with cycle life. The CHAdeMO connectors are quite expensive so they probably want them to last the life of the station. Tesla, on the other hand, replaces Supercharger cables regularly. Whether this was Tesla's intention or not, I will leave to your imagination.Perhaps, but that is a huge difference -- upwards of a 4x difference in allowed power.
I wondered if it might have to do with cable length.
Did you have to shut the car down to charge? EVGo doesn’t seem to work here in San Diego for me, I get a popping sound at the connector and stops the charge in 2 seconds. Submitted a service ticket to check the adapter.
I had the same thing with my UMC (popping and charging stopped). Ended up being bad UMC so it might be your adapter. I was able to get mine replaced under warranty by describing the problem to the parts department and avoided having to go through service, so you might try that.Did you have to shut the car down to charge? EVGo doesn’t seem to work here in San Diego for me, I get a popping sound at the connector and stops the charge in 2 seconds. Submitted a service ticket to check the adapter.
Fred
Did you have to shut the car down to charge? EVGo doesn’t seem to work here in San Diego for me, I get a popping sound at the connector and stops the charge in 2 seconds. Submitted a service ticket to check the adapter.
Fred