Combined Charging System

So those are all electrified.

And that same type of charging standard theoretically would be a CCS1 standard, I believe, is what they're currently using.

And that input is the same of what you would find in an electric vehicle, ideally, right? Unless they're specialized charging standards.

It hasn't been proliferated enough for it to really be something commonplace that We're starting to develop those stations out, but we've had some initial interest on developing out airports and kind of thinking about that from an autonomous, electrified EV toll side of things.

So just, you know, if you're going to do it, make sure you're prepared to plug it in daily.

It does have a CCS port on it.

It's got support for DC charging, which is more than most plug-in hybrids.

There's a few others out there like the Mitsubishi Outlander.

I think the latest Mercedes plug-in hybrids also have CCS ports or at least DC charging.

I can't remember if they have CCS or NAX yet.

I took it.

I took the RAV4.

Interestingly, you need to check the connectors because you might make the wrong assumption.

Electrify America have put 24 chargers in all CCS.

All CCS.

No NACs.

No Tesla-style NACs.

Compatible Teslas can obviously use an adapter.

And if you have a CCS car, which is nearly everybody, it doesn't make any difference to you.

But you might start to get into the mindset of turning up at a charging station and assume that a lot of the retrofits are going on to put one of each plug type on a piece of hardware.

So you'd need to use the plug on the side of your car because there are some pins that do the AC.

There's some pins that do the DC in terms of your, if you're in Europe, CCS2.

And so the power comes out of your car in DC.

but it has to get converted to AC before your house or the grid can use it.

That's a DC charging system that's been used for vehicle to grid for years.

CCS stands for combined charging system.

In Europe, we use CCS2, and that combines the regular Type 2 AC connection, which you'll be familiar with at home in your AC charger.

And then it's bigger because it's got those two big DC ports beneath it.

If there's traffic, you'll still have plugs, uh, where you can park your vehicle and, and get charging done.

One thing I do want to note, and which was slightly unusual to me from that report, uh, was that 73% of the new ports still had the CCS plugs, uh, and only about 23% had the Tesla style NACS plugs.

Interesting.

So I fe- I felt like that was sort of unusual because the majority of new EVs which are coming model year 2026, 2027, they're all getting the Tesla port.

It's, it's gonna be, it's gonna be adapters for [chuckles] for a while.

Um, I hope the car companies figure out where I should put it in the car, because there are times when you just, that thing is just knocking around.

Um, yeah, that's interesting, three-quarters being CCS.

I mean, the charging companies have definitely been sl- into like bringing out new NACS stations, but it didn't-

In roughly four months, America's biggest retailer is becoming a charging operator in its own right, rather than simply hosting Electrify America stuff.

Its 505 dual head chargers are up to 400 kilowatts with both CCS and NACs.

Most sites have between 8 and 16 stalls.

Charging data company, Paran, says Walmart installed 368 ports in Q2 alone, making it America's second largest deployer of new fast charging ports.