Tesla has opened its Superchargers to all non-Tesla EVs in Korea, allowing other brands to access its charging network. The company eventually plans to open all 1,007 chargers in Korea to all automakers.
The cables and connectors are much lighter. When my wife appreciates. It’s freezing here now, and some of these super thick CCS cables in the freezing are pretty unwieldy.
it’s because they can be super short and require less bulky cooling/protection compared to stations that serve cars with charging ports in unpredictable locations. There may be problems later for anyone with a port location that can’t get close enough to a charger, or if their car blocks the wrong parking spot in order to reach.
V4 charger cables are longer, but not sure if they retain the same gauge.
Liquid cooled cables don’t need larger conductors because the cables are kept cool by actively cooling them. The reason passively cooled cables need larger conductors is that resistance heating of conductors is a self-reinforcing cycle where the resistance increases as temperature increases, and temperature increases as resistance increases. So you use much larger conductors for passively cooled cables to keep resistance heating within the capabilities of the passive cooling of that conductor.
The cables and connectors are much lighter. When my wife appreciates. It’s freezing here now, and some of these super thick CCS cables in the freezing are pretty unwieldy.
it’s because they can be super short and require less bulky cooling/protection compared to stations that serve cars with charging ports in unpredictable locations. There may be problems later for anyone with a port location that can’t get close enough to a charger, or if their car blocks the wrong parking spot in order to reach.
V4 charger cables are longer, but not sure if they retain the same gauge.
The article references the chargers not the cables.
The downside with Tesla is the cables are much shorter so Tesla’s only.
Tesla did put in a 10 x drive thru chargers at the Sonic in Boise so other EV’s can use them but no MagicDock plugs.
The way I read it is smaller conductors and thinner insulation. Basically remove all safety factors from the electrical engineer calculations.
Liquid cooled cables don’t need larger conductors because the cables are kept cool by actively cooling them. The reason passively cooled cables need larger conductors is that resistance heating of conductors is a self-reinforcing cycle where the resistance increases as temperature increases, and temperature increases as resistance increases. So you use much larger conductors for passively cooled cables to keep resistance heating within the capabilities of the passive cooling of that conductor.
Considering the basically zero fires at Tesla chargers, there obviously had to be a good amount of safety factor involved. I say this as an EE.
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