jcaz2019SoulEV
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Every now and again I search for 'ccs to chademo adapter' and finally seeing some discussion on integrated adaptors, mostly Europe, that are becoming commercially available. Wondering if anyone has tried one out on a Soul?
TeslaBjorn has a review of one of them here :-
What he doesn't point out is that there is no theft protection for this. ( Not on early Soul EVs for sure - is there a charger lock for the Chademo plug , that locks the cable when the car is locked, on later cars. ) If it was my car anyone passing by could just disconnect the adapter and walk away with it.
Not good when the price of the adapter is almost the value of the car.
LOL I worried about it too, if you’re really worried about it I suppose you could always put a couple of padded magnets on the hood and cover it with a small tarp or black garbage bag? It was chucking it on the 2nd test…bad day to do a range/charging test. GOM was pretty accurate though, I bailed out one DCFC early cos I would have been limping into town and that wouldn't have been pretty.Oh boy I cringed when I saw the water drops on the ground. That always makes me nervous. I'll have to rewatch that teardown video to see how sealed it is.
I'll try the DCFC at Landsdowne mall today - Noodoe is a Chinese company with offices in California LOL so I imagine the adapter should work? There's a chargepoint at the Olympic Oval as well so I might see if I can hit both today, and a Chevron on the way home - the only problem with the Chevron stations is that they're positioned assuming the charge port is on the back, or on the front side. I almost have to park in front of it for it to work.There is a new DCFC at the Richmond hospital, it is a Flo, but I've used my BC-Hydro card. It appears to be the same manufacturer as the BC-Hydro ones. It is also cheap atm. 15cents/min. There is also some new DCFC at Lansdown mall. I've not used them, rate appears to be 45cents/kwh. I've seen that the Chevron/On-the-Run stations are now at 65cents/kwh. Rather outrageous now. I likely won't use them anymore. I think they are trying to make up for the months of free charging. Plus they were usually slow unless no one had drained their batteries already. The chevron at 3rd. and Blundell in Richmond now has 4 ccs1's with no Chademo running.
Here's hoping your testing goes well. It will be nice to have more charging options. We've been down to waiting several times with not enough charge to go anywhere else.
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