"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
08/09/2016 at 23:39 • Filed to: None
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"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
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VW is forced in its diesel emission cheating settlement to spend $2 billion in green automotive technology, think: vehicle charging stations, for example, and some are afraid that VW will spend that money in such a way as to gain themselves market advantage.
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dogisbadob
> Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
08/09/2016 at 23:55 |
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They should give the charging station building money to Tesla, and all electric cars from now on should use that Tesla connector.
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> dogisbadob
08/10/2016 at 00:39 |
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Agreed on having a universal connector. We don’t have different fuel pump nozzle designs do we?
Eventually, the so-called ‘market’ will pick a winner. However I do not think we can wait that long. We should already be a solar/renewable electric society. There will still be some fossil fuel usage, but the vast majority of our power/energy should be sunlight and non-polluting.
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Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
> dogisbadob
08/10/2016 at 00:51 |
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I hadn't thought about a power connector standard. Like USB 3.0
duurtlang
> ADabOfOppo; Gone Plaid (Instructables Can Be Confusable)
08/10/2016 at 01:57 |
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We have a similar issue with phones and their data/charging cable. All the manufacturers used their own designs in the past, but have since manned up and all use the same connector now. Everyone except one.
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> duurtlang
08/10/2016 at 06:45 |
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And if the rumors are true, they might even mess with the headphone jack soon
Scimitar7
> duurtlang
08/10/2016 at 07:56 |
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The thought just hit me: instead of a universal cable, why not a universal interface? You have MicroUSB and Lightning (along with a handful of others) for individual devices, but those cables plug into a standard USB port. Adapting the idea to electric cars; you can have whatever connector/cable style you want, but the end that plugs into the charging station must meet “this” standard. True, you now open the door to questions like “where do I stow the cable when it’s not needed?” But that shouldn’t be too hard for manufacturers to figure out, should it?
BigBlock440
> Scimitar7
08/10/2016 at 10:52 |
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You mean like an adapter? They already have those, and there is already an SAE standard.
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Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
> duurtlang
08/10/2016 at 11:39 |
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Yup. What you said.
Alex Zapata
> Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
08/10/2016 at 11:45 |
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Of course they are, and there is shit all any possible competitor can do to stop them, it would be stupid to prepare to spend a cool couple of billions and not try to find a way to spin it in your favour...
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Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
> Alex Zapata
08/10/2016 at 11:55 |
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Better than outright cheating.
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Scimitar7
> BigBlock440
08/10/2016 at 14:14 |
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Not so much an adapter (although that probably makes more sense), but a standardized female plug on the charging station and whatever the manufacturer wants on the car, then the manufacturer provides the cable for the car.
Basically, what smartphone manufacturers do now, but adapted for cars.