[kgermino]

I don't see anything new here (other than the name).

For those who don't know there are two charging connecters used for new electric cars in the US: Tesla (now called NACS and only used on Teslas) and CCS (used by everyone else). There's nothing here to indicate that that's changing and it feels like a move by Tesla to try turning around the momentum in a format war they're losing, even if they have a wider installed base today

[stetrain]

There’s an actual set of specification documents available to download. That’s an improvement.

Previously the only public info was their patent filings.

It also sounds like they are offering specific parts (inlets and connector cables) for sale since they are providing datasheets on them.

[hedora]

I wonder if that means we'll soon have cheap dongles to charge CCS cars at supercharger stations. I'd pay (maybe) $200 for such a thing, mostly because sometimes the CCS chargers are busy.

[kgermino]

Interesting thanks! I thought the specs were already published. Didn't they say they were going to do that a few years ago or am I misremembering something?

[stetrain]

Nope. They posted a list of patents with a pledge that basically said “We won’t sue you about our patents if you don’t sue us about yours”

The connector patents were on that list but that wasn’t a real spec.