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Re:Why Tesla's EV Charging System Won the Race to Become Ame... by umeshunni on Friday October 11, 2024 @05:10PM (#41813780)
Is there a technical reason that's not possible in a future update to NACS?
Re:Why Tesla's EV Charging System Won the Race to Become Ame... by IshKebab on Friday October 11, 2024 @05:18PM (#41813855)
It doesn't have enough wires. For power NACS has 2 wires for single phase AC or DC and a small ground wire.

CCS2 has 7 wires. 5 for 3 phase power (3 phases + ground + neutral) and 2 more for DC.

It a pretty mad design. If you think about it CCS2 requires every single car to lug around a 3 phase battery AC-DC converter instead of just putting it with the chargers. Doesn't make sense.

Re:Why Tesla's EV Charging System Won the Race to Become Ame... by labcomputer on Friday October 11, 2024 @05:28PM (#41813919)
> 3 phase battery AC-DC converter instead of just putting it with the chargers

3-phase -> DC is easier than single phase. One of the benefits of 3-phase is that power delivered is constant, so you don't need very big capacitors. That's part of the reason nobody makes a DC fast charger bigger than about 20kW.

Re:Why Tesla's EV Charging System Won the Race to Become Ame... by IshKebab on Saturday October 12, 2024 @03:46AM (#41817237)
Yes but is 3 phase 22kW easier than 1 phase 7kW? I doubt it.
Re:Why Tesla's EV Charging System Won the Race to Become Ame... by anonfordays on Friday October 11, 2024 @08:23PM (#41815269)
>It doesn't have enough wires. For power NACS has 2 wires for single phase AC or DC and a small ground wire

Two wires is enough for 208V phase-to-phase from a three phase power source [0]. NACS supports three phase power sources in this configuration.

[0] https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2F...