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[Doug S]

Eh, give me the DigiNow charger any day.

I mean seriously, give me one, any day now! C'mon guys, the rest of the world is catching up!

[vaiarii]

What if diginow charger had a chademo accessory, then the charger could act as a simple cc-inverter and make available every chademo station in addition to all L2 ac station?

[MrDude_1]

What if diginow charger had a chademo accessory, then the charger could act as a simple cc-inverter and make available every chademo station in addition to all L2 ac station?

Thats pretty much my idea.  With a large enough charger, you can feed it high voltage DC as well, That way you can charge fast, even if the chademo station didnt support the low voltage.   The key is the onboard charger has to be large enough to make it worth it.


Sure its not as efficient, but its not horrible either.

[Doug S]

What if diginow charger had a chademo accessory, then the charger could act as a simple cc-inverter and make available every chademo station in addition to all L2 ac station?

Brandon says that the CHAdeMO input isn't going to be released with the first wave, but it will follow shortly. Honestly I don't care all that much -- looking at PlugShare, I'll probably just use the huge number of 14-50 outlets available in my area.

[BrianTRice@gmail.com]

What if diginow charger had a chademo accessory, then the charger could act as a simple cc-inverter and make available every chademo station in addition to all L2 ac station?

Brandon says that the CHAdeMO input isn't going to be released with the first wave, but it will follow shortly. Honestly I don't care all that much -- looking at PlugShare, I'll probably just use the huge number of 14-50 outlets available in my area.

I've heard the same, and am also mainly banking on RV park coverage. CHAdeMO would be a nice complement to that, however.

[benswing]

Also, CCS chargers will soon be an important part of charging since they are backed by BMW, Chevy and some other heavy hitters.  It is likely that CCS will eventually win out over CHAdeMO in the US, but that won't be an issue for a few years.


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[Justin Andrews]

CCS already makes up 25% of installed UK rapid connectors.

(Linky to the ever excellent ZapMap)
https://www.zap-map.com/statistics/#charger-type

Though a large number of our rapid chargers (especially the Ecotricity ones) are dual CCS / CHAdeMO units.

[togo]

Just received this message today!  Contact Tony Williams if you are interested in having Zero approved CHAdeMO for your motorcycle:

All,

We have entered into an agreement with Zero Motorcycle to provide our JdeMO equipment for high speed DC charging using public CHAdeMO stations. This will likely be sold through the Zero website and possibly through our website also.

There are now over 10,000 of these stations in the world, with over 2000 of the United States and almost 3000 in Europe.

Zero has provided us with the technical details required to make our equipment work with their motorcycle, but we have not yet begun development work.

The problems with any motorcycle that has just slightly over 100 V maximum means that it will never work with every single station, but it will work with an overwhelming majority. While the specification requires 50 to 500 volt compatibility, unfortunately not every charger manufacturer follows the rules.

We've already successfully tested our equipment on the Lightning motorcycle. You can expect to see Lightning motorcycles with a CHAdeMO port in the very near future.

We also just completed our first prototype on the Tesla Roadster, and we will be delivering JdeMO kits this summer.

We have delivered over 50 units for the Toyota RAV4 EV with another 50 on order.

Here's what I need from each of you; please have your friends and colleagues with a Zero motorcycles who may be interested in such a kit to send us their email to:

JdeMO@QuickChargePower.com


Tony Williams


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Tony W, what happened?  Email address bounces, no further word!?  And then you fighting with Diginow?

[wavelet]

Tony W, what happened?  Email address bounces, no further word!?  And then you fighting with Diginow?

No idea, but I'd try phoning/emailing his EV accessory company, Quick Charge Power ; the contact page still mentions him.

[togo]

Tony (a great guy) put JdeMO in my RAV4 EV. I was lucky and got Serial Number 1 because he lives only 3 miles from me. Perhaps I can get SN 1 for my DSR?

Any luck?

[JaimeC]

Just noticed that this is an OLD thread resurrected.  I tried going to the website and Firefox threw up a warning page that the site was a potential security risk.  Not willing to chance it.

[shayan]

Just noticed that this is an OLD thread resurrected.  I tried going to the website and Firefox threw up a warning page that the site was a potential security risk.  Not willing to chance it.

I think this is the correct URL to the website: https://qccharge.com/

[togo]

Oh good grief. Not only did Tony Williams ghost the product, he lost the domain too?