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| This prototype/RnD electric car charging port will send a shiver down your spine |
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| Psi:
Check out this video of an RnD concept electric car. The charging port segment in question starts around 35:19, you'll know it when you see it! |
| tom66:
Looks as if it might have been a three phase version of J1772 ... very odd!! Can't seem to find reference to it anywhere. |
| Psi:
--- Quote from: tom66 on July 03, 2023, 12:43:10 pm ---Looks as if it might have been a three phase version of J1772 ... very odd!! Can't seem to find reference to it anywhere. --- End quote --- That is your takeaway from watching that segment, the type of connector? |
| tom66:
--- Quote from: Psi on July 03, 2023, 01:09:00 pm --- --- Quote from: tom66 on July 03, 2023, 12:43:10 pm ---Looks as if it might have been a three phase version of J1772 ... very odd!! Can't seem to find reference to it anywhere. --- End quote --- That is your takeaway from watching that segment, the type of connector? --- End quote --- ??? What do you mean? There's a lot more in that video but the charging port is definitely unusual. I half expected an inductive charging port as seen on very early EVs like the GM EV1. I've never seen that port before. The whole vehicle is odd. I didn't see any obvious way for the engine to generate power for the hybrid battery, no high voltage orange cabling in the engine compartment and only belt driven accessories. So perhaps they draw power from the rear motor in this case - basically using the road and two tyres as a massive belt. But if that's the case it can't run electric accessories when stopped in traffic (if the battery is flat) and low speed driving is unlikely to be enough to charge the battery. Or perhaps it can only run on the electric motor when the battery is charged from mains, and there is no way to top off the high voltage battery from the engine (so do you have a petrol-driven AC compressor and an electric driven one? What about heating? Charging the 12V battery?) They clearly never got as far as making those things work but the lack of any high voltage generator in the engine compartment makes this less of a hybrid and more of a dual powertrain vehicle. Very much looks like a "make sure it moves and that's all really" kind of prototype, which I guess is fine for what they were aiming at but I wonder what the plan for an actual vehicle would have looked like. |
| tooki:
--- Quote from: Psi on July 03, 2023, 01:09:00 pm --- --- Quote from: tom66 on July 03, 2023, 12:43:10 pm ---Looks as if it might have been a three phase version of J1772 ... very odd!! Can't seem to find reference to it anywhere. --- End quote --- That is your takeaway from watching that segment, the type of connector? --- End quote --- Well you did title the thread “charging port” so it stands to reason you’d be talking about the connector. The handmade protoboard PCB is perfectly acceptable for a concept car. So instead of the guessing games just tell us what YOU think should “send shivers down [our] spines”. |
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