on my visit to France ( with my XK120 DHC ) I looked for charging points.
The parking slot of my hotel had this:
opened:
What is it? It says 500V?
I'm 99% sure that's the German/Dutch "Perilex" 25A three phase cooker socket. It's not actually supplying 500V, that's just the maximum rating. It's rare and dying out - and what it is doing in France I don't know! You get 230V from it by just connecting one of the live phases to neutral.
Then the hotel had this, too:
opened:
That's the standard French domestic 16A socket, in a waterproof housing.
Then I went to the yacht port of Cannes. I think this would be a very convinient place to charge you vehicle. They have hundreds charging points for yachts, and just beside the charging points they have parking slots. Why doesn't anybody use those existing charging points? It is so practical.
I agree and I thought the same thing in Nice recently. Each berth has power up to 125A (with other smaller sockets on the unit too) and you see these huge boats with cars in the back - must be a new market for Tesla.
They have numerous different possibilities:
Is Mennekes allways only 16 A?
No - they make everything up to 125A (they're just a manufacturer and a high quality one at that, but their name has also become associated with the new EV plug like Xerox with copiers).
What is this actually? 400V?
It's a three phase 16A IEC 60309 (60309 being the family of connectors in all the photos below). Again, you get 230V from it by just connecting one of the live phases to neutral.
What is this?
Opened:
That's the single phase 32A 60309 - the type that the Tesla UMC comes with in the UK.
Then my second hotel had those:
Good place - they've covered all the bases.
Can you tell me what the big red is? I was not able to open it.
Any thoughts?
It's a 32A three phase 60309 (the type that the Tesla UMC comes with in mainland Europe), but the IP67 fully waterproof version. To open it you give the cover a quarter turn to the left.
Thanks for logging them all - it would be helpful if you could let us know where they are for future tourists.
This also shows some of the diversity of sockets that we have around Europe and is a good demonstration to Tesla of why we need a full set of UMC pigtails (like the US gets) and not just the one type of 32A blue plug that they supply in the UK and Ireland and 32A red plug that they sell in mainland Europe. Calling it a "Universal Mobile Connector" but only supplying one pigtail in each market is a bit of an oxymoron. Come on guys, that's another $800 you could make right there.
Here's a document I did for EV Components two years ago when they were interested in making a full set of European pigtails for the RFMC. It explains all these in more detail.