The Tesla charger is more elegant than CCS, although I anticipate the following problems:
1: With CCS, the physically larger connector communicates to the customer that it's a high-speed charger. A lot of people don't understand the difference between slow and fast charging. (You can even see it in this thread where people don't know that they can't plug their Tesla into a CCS charger.)
2: CCS has bigger pins, which means it can carry higher amperage. There's no way to work around that situation with the Tesla connector.
(The bigger pin difference also, ironically, boosts the VHS vs. Betamax analogy. Betamax's biggest problem was that the tapes were physically too small, thus cutting either playback time or picture quality.)
gwbas1c|4 years ago
1: With CCS, the physically larger connector communicates to the customer that it's a high-speed charger. A lot of people don't understand the difference between slow and fast charging. (You can even see it in this thread where people don't know that they can't plug their Tesla into a CCS charger.)
2: CCS has bigger pins, which means it can carry higher amperage. There's no way to work around that situation with the Tesla connector.
(The bigger pin difference also, ironically, boosts the VHS vs. Betamax analogy. Betamax's biggest problem was that the tapes were physically too small, thus cutting either playback time or picture quality.)
Robotbeat|4 years ago