Interview with Tesla CTO JB Staubel that is worth reading

Here is a recent interview with JB Staubel, the CTO of Tesla, that is very worth reading.

http://www.sae.org/mags/AEI/tools/11923

Stan

Thanks! I don't normally browse around on sae.org nor get pointers to good stuff there.

Doesn't seem like be likes CHAdeMO at all !!!

When he said "totally compliant", lets be clear that it is total NOT compliant with CHAdeMO. It will be interesting to see how they address the CHAdeMO compliance.

There are strong believable rumors that Tesla will produce a CHAdeMO adapter for the Model S by the end of 2013. This will have to be an active device to bridge the communications protocols, but still technically straight forward. IMHO, this is something that Tesla needs to do in order to properly support customers.

miimura said:

There are strong believable rumors that Tesla will produce a CHAdeMO adapter for the Model S by the end of 2013. This will have to be an active device to bridge the communications protocols, but still technically straight forward. IMHO, this is something that Tesla needs to do in order to properly support customers.

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Yes, but so far, they seem to be following the "party line" that CHAdeMO is "those guys in Japan" and the rest of the world is the SAE compliant model. The fact that by the end of 2013 there are going to be hundreds of CHAdeMO's in the important EV west coast states of Washington, Oregon, and California and exactly zero public Frankenplugs doesn't bode well for that thought process.

http://www.chademo.com/

The number of CHAdeMO DC Quick charger installed up to today is 2445.
-- (Japan 1672 Europe 601 USA 160 Others 12) last update 2013.02.28