Type 2 connector

There's a reason I've written this in the background of the intro of the podcast, because with slower AC charging, you're typically charging at home or you're charging at work.

Maybe if you're in Europe, you're on a Type 2 connection, which is a kind of bring your own cable kind of deal.

Well, the car has an onboard charger, and that's what turns the AC, which is what our grid works.

is on and you've heard things like single phase or three phase if you're at home you're probably in the uk on single phase in europe you might be on three phase but either way it's ac it's alternating current and the battery to get into the battery has to be converted to dc first so a constant charge of that battery now the wall box on the side of your house doesn't actually do a lot because you pay quite a lot for it It doesn't do...

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.

Leafs.

And then two AC type chargers available.

So it's pretty good.

So I said, oh, that's fine.

I've never used an AC charger.

I'm going to give that a go.

And damn, it didn't work.

I found one other DC charger that was just low volt.