Volvo V60 charging at a Supercharger - comments?

[Saghost]

The Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV's battery is only 12 kWh but it includes CHAdeMO fast-charging in most countries. Why use fossil fuel if you can charge for free?

Having a DCFC port is certainly helpful for a PHEV for a number of reasons - principally for exporting power (world's best home backup generator...) and being able to charge from DC stations on occasion if necessary/useful. It doesn't really cost the company much to add, and it adds a lot of versatility. The Outlander was designed in Japan and I believe originally for the Japanese market, where CHAdeMO originated and has massive coverage most places people go.

However, unless they have a Lithium-titanate based chemistry, they aren't going to be charging an 11 kWh pack at more than 25 kW or so - which makes it hard to understand why anyone would bother during a road trip unless the charging was very cheap (relative to gas) and very convenient.

It's also not a great utilization of a 120 kW Supercharger - unless the PHEVs plug in opposite Model Ss, where they can get full benefit while not impeding the charge rate of the other side.
Walter

 

[Hookmaker]

Ok, so here's the answer from Tesla :
"Thank you for contacting us and sorry for the late reply.
We have had a couple of cases like this before. It is definitely not possible to charge with a Volvo PHEV on our Supercharger stations, nor with any other EV at the moment. Our equipment register what kind of vehicle that connects and there will be no charging, if it’s not a Tesla. Furthermore the car in question has no DC charging possibility to my knowing. So it would be fair to say that it’s most likely scenario # 1, as you mention.

Thanks again for getting in contact. We appreciate your enthusiasm and support in Tesla and our Supercharger technology and wish you some great trips with your Model S.


Best regards,"
Tesla Supercharger team EU