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Re:Global electric vehicles sales grew 41% in 2020 by jsight on Thursday April 29, 2021 @09:46PM (#26989029)
That is correct. It would be almost 1:1 between CCS and CHAdeMO, but Electrify America only includes a single CHAdeMO cable per station. Most other networks are 1:1.

Tesla supercharger coverage is pretty good with just over 1000 sites. EA coverage is actually pretty good too with just 600 sites. The # of sites needed for L3 in the short term isn't really that high. The number of plugs is important. I think EA averages 6 plugs per site, and Tesla is a little over 8 per site, with most new sites being 8 stall setups.

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Re:Global electric vehicles sales grew 41% in 2020 by cptskippy on Thursday April 29, 2021 @10:46PM (#26989386)
There's not much point in deploying CHAdeMO at this point, Nissan is pretty much the only one using it and it's mostly useless IMO as a Leaf owner. Sure it can charge the car faster but it's also bad for it and will quickly degrade the battery because there's no active cooling of the pack.

I would like to see Tesla transition to CCS in the US but that's going to be a hard sell without legislation.

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