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Emporia: (I haven't tried it myself.)

What captive market? There are plenty of electricity suppliers to choose among...

I take it back -- apparently there are several vehicles and EVSEs that do 80 amps these days.

Eh, did the Leaf ever go past 27.5 amps (6.6 kW) on the AC side? I think a 30 amp EVSE is all it can benefit from anyway.

Yeah, it's 80. Although, AFAICT, nobody implements that. (Tesla did, but has since scaled back to 48, for whatever reason.)

Lots of current cars will take 48 amps -- needing a 60 amp circuit -- so it could be useful right now. Just make sure everything's wired up to that spec. E.g. you should probably use a NEMA 14-60 rather than a 14-50, if you put in an outlet. I just saw a review of a certain EVSE that came with...

Just the sort of thing the new standard should help with. (It won't help with DCFC stations, but I'm hoping those cables will get armored.)

It won't. To clarify, in case it's needed, the 277V represents a new high end to the AC range that a compliant car accepts; it's not a replacement for the whole 208V-240V range of J1772 level 2. That is to say, you should just read it as 208V-277V (although it's not strictly necessary for a car...

So, this is a very interesting article. My immediate reaction on seeing the title was disbelief -- having been in enough discussions with Tesla fans / EA haters, pointing out that the CCS1 plug itself wasn't (mostly) the problem -- but it seems like SAE has taken the opportunity of a new...

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I'm aware. The question is, was it better enough to hold up the process of standardization itself, for several years? Many people point to the variety of plug standards as a psychological barrier to wider EV adoption, as in the headline quoted here. But it was Tesla, mainly, that was holding...

Or, you know.... condemn Tesla, for refusing to join everyone else in standardizing on CCS, long since.

Existing SemaConnect users will already be aware, but I figured it should be mentioned here: https://www.wusa9.com/article/tech/science/environment/electric-vehicle-charging-stations-bowie-maryland/65-7d714f1c-92cf-410e-8cce-827b14ad81a7 Around here, until recently, we had lots of SemaConnect...

I don't see why not. But I surely don't know.

This doesn't say anything about "ditching CCS", AFAICT, just adding so-called NACS. I don't really see the point of this, with Tesla having already started to open up their network to CCS.