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I'm imagining a single i-Pace or E-tron running around the SE killing CCS chargers. After all, no other CCS EV comes anywhere near pulling 100 kW.
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I'm imagining a single i-Pace or E-tron running around the SE killing CCS chargers. After all, no other CCS EV comes anywhere near pulling 100 kW.
And then that pesky e-tron comes by and kills it again if they try to enable more than 50 kW.According to @Jeff N 's article, they will be remotely updating them so that they fall back to uncooled 50kW operation when the cooling system goes offline until they get the full fix installed from Efacec. Right now, the whole charger goes offline and a technician has to physically visit the site to bring it back up.
I'm imagining a single i-Pace or E-tron running around the SE killing CCS chargers. After all, no other CCS EV comes anywhere near pulling 100 kW.
And then that pesky e-tron comes by and kills it again if they try to enable more than 50 kW.
He's just letting his imagination run wild. The charger vendor is Efacec and the fault is the cooling system they purchased from an outside vendor. Efacec has identified the problem and just need to come up with new parts to install in all their stations to fix the problem. Until then, they will randomly shut down.Are you just making this up or are I-Pace's really causing the problem? (The article said that the problem was the liquid cooling system for the cable was leaking, which I doubt has anything to do with a specific care charging at the location.)
Right, so instead of randomly shutting down EA is rolling out a software update to those units to disable their liquid-cooling system and limit their charge rate (really current limit) to “50 kW” or something like that. In other words, until the real fix comes along they will be operating these Efacec units as conventional cable chargers at lower power.He's just letting his imagination run wild. The charger vendor is Efacec and the fault is the cooling system they purchased from an outside vendor. Efacec has identified the problem and just need to come up with new parts to install in all their stations to fix the problem. Until then, they will randomly shut down.
That makes sense given the problem they have.Right, so instead of randomly shutting down EA is rolling out a software update to those units to disable their liquid-cooling system and limit their charge rate (really current limit) to “50 kW” or something like that. In other words, until the real fix comes along they will be operating these Efacec units as conventional cable chargers at lower power.
Speaking of "absolutely clean", the German court just found that there is additional cheating software installed in the new control code:
Volkswagen's Dieselgate software fix has another cheat device: German court
Hi PolluxCan't stop thinking about it yet
If that happens I’m going back to Jaguar’s.New rumor... VW interested in buying Tesla... LOL
Tesla Motors, Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA), (VWAPY) - Tesla Ticks Higher On Rumor Of Volkswagen Interest
P.S. @RT, did you used to post quarterly summaries of premium sedan / sport sedan sales here in USA? If so, can you point me to where they've gone? I loved seeing those numbers. Thanks.
Hi Pollux
Did you see the details of the cheat ?
The emissions controls (or at least some of them) are turned off below 10C or above 28C. I can sort of understand the diesel engine performing poorly when cold but I'm stumped by > 28C.
Anyway, this was VW trying to avoid the costs of a buy-back. It is going to be a lot harder for them to evade now, and they get to add the costs of the initial software 'fix' and fines for the additional evasion on top. Next question: who is going to be the fall guy for this latest round of fraud ? Another rogue 'low level engineer' ?
@Pollux carsalesbase.com was one of the primary sources I used. I forget the other one. I stopped posting the monthly sales spreadsheet that compared Tesla sales to others because many manufacturers stopped posting monthly sales data.
RT