Californians need a locking feature on their public charging stations, due to their wacko EV charging law. If someone unplugs their EV, The State will tow and impound their car, leaving them stranded with no transportation.
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Californians need a locking feature on their public charging stations, due to their wacko EV charging law. If someone unplugs their EV, The State will tow and impound their car, leaving them stranded with no transportation.
GSP
I think that law only applies to certain public spaces. Of course it's hard to know which spaces are public. Further discussion about that is here: CA AB 475 Allow ticketing of vehicles not connected to chargers
Ironically I was there last night as well and saw this as well as the standard wall plug cable. The wall plug cable is significantly more flexible and lighter than the HPC cable.
Originally Posted by smorgasbord
Locking the adapter to your car is fine, but wouldn't it be considered bad charging etiquette to lock a public charging station to your car? That could prevent another EV owner from using the station if you don't return to your car as soon at charging is complete.
^^^^ Check out the thread Doug linked above for discussion on plug sharing and the CA law that prevents it ^^^^^
I really like the J1772 adaptor for the S. It has a very robust look to it, and is even smaller than hcsharp's "can" J1772 adaptor for thr roadster.
Great job Tesla!
GSP
a video showing how it works
A bit weird that you have to unlock the J1172 side, then pull on the adapter to unhook it from the car. I'll guess that's because, unlike Roadster, there's no switch on the Tesla side. I'm sure people will unplug the J1772 side first on occasion.
Also interesting that even though the charge port door was open, the Model S side was locked so he couldn't plug in. I wonder what's going on there?
adaptor at work
As brilliant as the CAN is, Tesla described the "beer can" adapter form to us at the Fremont Factory EVent last October.It was inspired by hcsharps's roadster adapter I think!
The CAN's size is determined by the Tesla plug size. For the S the made the plug size smaller so the adapter can be smaller.
The world loves to be deceived.
The CHAdeMO adapter discussion goes here: Likelihood of a CHAdeMO adapter for the Model S
The first relocated post is here.
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