CCS v2

Jun 10, 2022 Last reply: 4 years ago 23 Replies

The J1772 pins simply are not rated for the high currents on the DC pins. Tesla designed their connector for high current DC from the start. J1772 didn't.

Ed is good at mixing up the details. He likes odd arrangements, oblivious that there are huge amounts of inertia in any standard. No charger company is going to want to change connectors now. Likewise, what car company wants to obsolete their previously sold cars... well, maybe that's not valid. ;)

I don't know much about the CCS protocol. I do know the J1772 standard is very, very simple and doesn't necessitate digital electronics in the EVSE, even if they all have an MCU.

I agree - although I was surprised that the connector could not be improved to increase the current capability.

With the bidirectional communication link available in CCS there would be no ambiguity over the current capability of the connector.

CCS2 connectors do support up to 500A with cooling (200A without) and have individual temperature sensors for each contact so the charging rate can be throttled if necessary.

The the simple J1772 analog control technique used with CCS does have that virtue that the safety related aspect of enabling/disabling power does not require that any software be in the path.

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