Here in DC we have a lot of food trucks, and their fumes and noise is a sad mark upon the area. I dream of a law where these things could be connected to the grid instead. Right now that's just a fantasy as there's not a real way to accomplish that objective, but tech like this is exactly what it would take! And more inverters setup to be powered off EV voltage levels.
Around here in the Czech Republic they hook up to the grid (they often have regular spots they visit, so often arrange a connection to be available) or cook on gas from gas bombs anyway, so don't really need electricity when cooking.
Ok… either this was a typo or I don’t understand what a gas bomb is.
That said, OP's "I don't like noise and smelly stuff, it's ruining my city" is laughable.
There's other practical challenges of deploying high power charging here. The power connection is only part of the system. How we do metering, how we get get power to the area, how we convert it are all complicated challenges. Doing it at scale would be non trivial.
I don't think the DC municipality is very interested in enforcement of arbitrary HOA-style laws.
1. https://www.tesla.com/blog/opening-north-american-charging-s...
2. https://media.ford.com/content/fordmedia/fna/us/en/news/2023...
CCS is now twice the voltage and supports 25% more current; the common max CCS charger power is 350KW, whereas most superchargers are at best 250KW, and often that power is shared among several stalls.
Teslas use CCS2 in Europe where (ahem) they were required to, so by opening up their network, millions of cars there are out there able to use the stations since it's largely a software change.
No mass-produced car uses Supercharger plugs except Teslas, so them opening up their network means only some Fords, produced at some time in the future, will be able to use them - and it's really not a plus, given the slow charging speed, and how oversubscribed many of the stations are. It's going to be fun when people with 100k Teslas can't charge because there's someone with a $35k electric Ford using a charging port...
The entire mass-production auto industry save Tesla has standardized on CCS1/2. The only downside to CCS is that the US and Europe use different CCS connectors, which is a giant facepalm.
The size, usability, and industrial design is clearly better.
> CCS is now twice the voltage and supports 25% more current
The max NACS/Tesla current is 1MW.
> The entire mass-production auto industry save Tesla has standardized on CCS1/2.
China has a different (and way crazier) plug.
Adapters aren't a huge issue, but the base plug should be the most compact and simple one. NACS.
Also, Superchargers are not massively oversubscribed. Tesla is really good at installing enough stations. It's true that superchargers are actually used while many others tend to rot or sit broken, but overall the Tesla experience is far better.
Additionally, there isn't a problem with slower charge speeds. There are still a lot of 50kW CCS chargers where I live, all slower than even old Supercharging stations.