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It was a great meetup! I'm definitely down to do this regularly.

The plugs are expensive Tom. You are looking at about £60-£70 for a Type 2 socket alone.

Yeah, I was surprised how expensive the raw materials are. I considered trying to build one myself but I wouldn't actually save that much versus buying one premade. (And I'm not sure I trust myself to not screw it up.)

Charging is the biggest area to gain with mass adoption of electric vehicles.  All the car manufacturers are working on 30 minute charge times.  Let's hope Zero has a plan somewhere down the line to fully charge in 30 minutes or perhaps even less in the future as well.

Word. Tesla seems to be doing a lot to try to push this forward, but charging is still probably the biggest aspect of electric vehicles that can improve.

no its the chargepoint ground fault tolerance.  I get these all the time if I use level 1.  Just use the J1772 adapter and it works fine.  The charger on the Zero has too much ripple and it upsets the chargepoint stations limits for thinking some little 3 year old is being shocked. its all based on milliamps and what they determined a 3 year old could pull their hand off of if electrocuted. We had a big discussion about this in the Electric Auto Association a few years back.  In the end, it was decided it was better to have chargers fault all the time vs risking a small child not having the ability to pull away.  The J1772 uses twice the voltage so the amperage is cut in half.  Never have a problem with these.

That's exactly the information I was looking for. Thanks!

isn't there a J-1772 to single on-board charger plug adapter for about $100? I don't have any external chargers.

The cheapest one that I'm aware of is the one that Zero sells: http://www.zeromotorcycles.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=122
I've looked around and I can't find anything cheaper. If you do, let me know!

The Great DigiNow Supercharger Rollout is still pending, alas.

Ah. I find it difficult to get news on that front - is the big "Hypothetically charge under 1 hour" thread the main source, or is there somewhere else I can go?

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I had some strange charging problems with my 2015 S and had to get the BMS and some other components replaced through my dealer. All covered under warranty, and it's working fine now.

After being sidelined for a few weeks with this same issue I realised that a spare charger was a) extremely valuable in the rare case it does go out because it can keep you on the road, b) handy for longer range riding/faster charging c) pretty cheap

Are you talking about the external Quick Charger that Zero sells, or something else?

This is tempting.

Do you carry it around with the bike? If so, how?

EDIT: Dumb follow-up questions, sorry. This wasn't completely clear from Zero's site: when using this, do you still plug into a single 110V wall plug, or do you have one cord going to the onboard charger and one to the quick charger? Have you ever used this in conjunction with a J1772 adapter?