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by gjsman-1000 1313 days ago
> It has no moving parts, is half the size, and twice as powerful as Combined Charging System (CCS) connectors.

It's just a connector. Why did CCS have to be twice as big then? What's the tradeoff CCS took?

Edit: I just looked up a size comparison of CCS vs Tesla/NACS and what the heck happened...

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CCS was backwards compatible with existing standards, and added stuff to it.

It would have been like USB-C being glued to the top of an old SCSI connector.

Tesla controlled both ends (literally) on theirs and so they could optimize for size/etc.