DaveinOlyWA said:
DNAinaGoodWay said:
mbender said:
The title of this post makes it sound like an SAE Combo replaced a Chademo, but one is still there -- just not Blink's. Perhaps the OP could modify the title and save some readers the trip (as it were) to a fairly unremarkable development (imho).
It's worth remarking that they installed a CHAdeMO even though VWEVs won't use it. Shows support for EVs in general, and is something Nissan and Tesla don't do.
oh most definitely and I think its simply VW keeping their options open
I think this discussion is headed in the wrong direction. VWERL is a research facility, first and foremost. That's how they were able to install the first CHAdeMO QC in the Bay Area. Some of their prototypes, the R8-based etron would come to mind, were equipped with CHAdeMO. This was before they had CCS electronics as QCs ready. What this facility does locally is not necessarily reflective of corporate policy and standards support.
Furthermore, the site the Blink was installed on was contracted to ECOtality. CarCharging, the new owner of the Blink network, has been replacing the old units with new equipment. They just did that at Stanford, where a similar or identical unit was installed recently. I'm not a fan of any standards wars, but I think you might be taking this too far. Instead of becoming partial and insinuating anything, I would rather see support of multi-plug QCs, such as this one, in public locations. What Nissan, Tesla, GM, VW or BMW do privately or at their dealers is another matter.
The cars should compete of their own merits, and not on the plug format or the size of subsidies any particular format received from respective governments. Ideally, these things would converge; an outright plug format dispute and the division of the EV community because of it is not needed or desirable in my opinion.
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