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JFDIT
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What a muddle! Guess that's the beauty of Standards - there's so many to choose from.....
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Wow can't even seem to standardise a plug at the end of a cable :shock: - and some praise the need to jump in a join the future :?
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Roll on Hydrogen....the real answer
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Post by Felindre »

Electric vehicles are at the forefront of development, kind of like cars at the beginning of the last century. Nobody thought to create the standards before hand so it's very much up to the producers to create the technology as they went along. Standards only occur in retrospect as developer 3 says 'so instead of designing my own plug, what are developer 1 and 2 doing for this?' Bit like VHS and Betamax. The most popular will rise to the top and become the defacto standard.

Just give it another 5 to 10 years :-)
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Post by Mikeg1 »

JFDIT wrote: ↑Sun Jan 30, 2022 8:03 am What a muddle! Guess that's the beauty of Standards - there's so many to choose from.....

Oldie wrote: ↑Sun Jan 30, 2022 8:37 am Wow can't even seem to standardise a plug at the end of a cable :shock: - and some praise the need to jump in a join the future :?
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Post by qrt31 »

Mikeg1 wrote: ↑Sun Jan 30, 2022 11:22 am
JFDIT wrote: ↑Sun Jan 30, 2022 8:03 am What a muddle! Guess that's the beauty of Standards - there's so many to choose from.....

Oldie wrote: ↑Sun Jan 30, 2022 8:37 am Wow can't even seem to standardise a plug at the end of a cable :shock: - and some praise the need to jump in a join the future :?
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Yes, a bit of a mess, but standards are emerging. ChaDeMo is on the way out I think. Type 2 and CCS are emerging as the standard for slow and fast charging. You don’t need your own CCS cable since they are always attached to commercial chargers. And I don’t think you can find ChaDeMo without CCS and Type 2 cables attached also. Most new cars can take both Type 2 and CCS. Tesla has gone its own way but is now working on compatibility. Something else will inevitably appear in the future, but I don’t see anything substantially changing for quite a while - certainly not until far beyond the life of my car.
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