They did not even test it on vehicles!💀 

I'm actually surprised how serious this adapter looks. The outer casing seams to be injection molded and someone has made a really good job packing everything in such a small form factor. As a designer I can say that someone has put a lot of hours and some money developing this thing. I hope we will soon see a video with someone charging a Leaf with it. This would be a real game changer for the Leaf. In Sweden where I live the ratio between CCS and CHAdeMO chargers is more then 10:1. I would definitely buy one.

It will be a game changer for the LEAF and the Triplets if they can get a reliable CCS to ChaDeMo adapter, purely as they will now be able to access the entire network. In the UK, there are still ChaDeMo being installed, however give it 10 years and these cars will only be able to 7kW AC charge. When the Leaf 62 and UX 300e can get in excess of 200-250 miles, it may be less of a problem. However, for the Leaf 40 (and earlier), if the price is also right this will be a game changer. I believe Muxan will do a CCS conversion kit for around 3450 euro).

Thank you for reporting on and researching of this topic, Dala. Everything I've observed so far indicates that any successful CCS-to-CHAdeMO adapter is probably going to be rather large. I'm concerned that attempting to fit all the necessary electronics into the confines of a handle-style block of plastic, like shown in the video, is not a good approach. It's going to weigh down on the car's receptacle and induce physical stress over time. I'd much rather see a design in the form of a briefcase or box that can rest on the ground and have a separate cable (~2m long) attached to it that's terminated on an ordinary CHAdeMO plug. In North America, it should have inlets for both CCS-1 and Tesla NACS. Europeans would probably be fine with just a CCS-2 inlet. I'd rather have an adapter that takes up some physical space, has some real world electronic flexibility and durability and actually works . . . unlike the "convenient" one built into a handle that doesn't!

When you have injection moulded parts and 3D printed parts in a production product you just know its work in progress and not the finished item.

Brilliant work Dala, keep up the research, very very interesting. Still love the briefcase charger, really do hope you get it working!

Both the car and charger have contactors, so the one in the adaptor is probably functional rather than for safety.

Once the issues are ironed out I am definitely in the market for this.

looking inside, it has all the necessary components! maybe there should be two contactors, but in fact there are already too many contactors in the circuit, the car has two+1s in the battery and one in the PCU, the internal charger has 2+1s with precharge This self contactor is therefore only for safty to interrupt its operation in case of adaptery failure. On the adapter, it is necessary to turn on the 12V relay circuits on the ato side and communicate all toghter and then send the combined can+ information to the ccs CP line.

Wow... I would want it tested at a Electric safety test organisation. Swedish elsäkerhetsverket. They took down the Easee charger. And if this isn't protected as you say with two contractors, is it even legal to distribute and sell it?

LOL - so much praise! Thanks for sharing:)

😂 wait until bata testing by customers are finish 😅

The one contactor not a problem, because, you have 2 contaktors inside car battery, you have 2 contactors in charger - and the HD wires never powered with on end not connected. The 2 contactor reguirment is that, if you put cable on water, then catastrofe happens, put you allready have many conatctors in line, thats already dooing safety stuff both ends! I thinks even one contactor dosent needed, but some safeti 400V DC + is not bad at all! because one is 0V and other is live 400V DC + and you know witc is higger voltage.

I'm shocked! I thought it was a fake - and it very well might be? Thanks for breaking this down for us.

Like Dala I wouldn't trust this when it hasn't been tested for real. I also don't trust that they advise adding a resistor to make it work. Why didn't they put it in to start with? Sounds like they're just trying to avoid giving a refund. I'd be surprised if the resistor solved all the issues. If it did then I'd expect the company to put the resistor in future units BEFORE they ship them out. But I think it's a case of buyer beware - caveat emptor.

I will definitely buy one when its working good. I can imagine there is quite a big market for this. It would make long trips much more comfortable!

I read on another article that some official Nissan group does not trust this adapter and that it has not been tested in North America. You take risks if the adapter and charger does not work together. Given NACS are the new standard in North America, I might as well wait until the new cars come out with the NACS plug. Hopefully Nissan will go with the flow and place NACS plugs in their EVs. I would love to get another Nissan EV, yet if they sell EVs with no NACS plug, i will have to look at other EV options.

Thankyou for your valuable insight & knowledge - as always 😁

Exciting and terrifying then!

In Amerika we don't need Chademo-> CCS1 adapter anymore, because NACS takes over everything. Is there a chance to get a Chademo-> NACS adapter instead?

My biggest consern here the too small cap on the input side the electronic plate and busabr, thats like 5mm

Please check if that CE stands for China Export or Conformité Européenne. There is a minor differens in the font of the letters

I hope that some one get this adapter to work in the near future it would make long distance travel a dream in Europe ❤

I am also interested, Good vibrations to Dala

It would be nice if nissan let leaf owners replace their chademo with ccs at the dealership without voiding the warranty.

Why would there be a requirement of a contactor at all? I guess both the charger and the car are having them. I think they added it to be able to sense the voltage of the car to tell to the CCS part what to supply. Then it need to disconnect the two until measurement is done.

Hi Dala have you got the link for one off these please

It seems like a better idea to have your CHAdeMo connection in your car converted to CCS. There are companies that do this. In Europe, CCS has become the standard. I don't think the adaptor with a heavy cable is a good idea.

I think it's actually quite awesome what was made here, certainly not easy... but is it legal to use this device? In case of some 'glitch' one could theoretically fry the charger or worse, the battery.... I wonder if both the protocols are secured on both ends to cover such unforeseen usage.

this is really interesting! We need affordable ways to get CCS charging for CHAdeMO-vehicles. CHAdeMO-vehicles will be around for several years. Unless they can charge from CCS, they eventually have to rely on AC only, and become short range commuters, without option for occasional long trips. I guess an adapter will probably be the less expensive option. While a CHAdeMo to CCS modification-kit will be more expensive. But a kit will be more user friendly.

I would pay up to $1000 if this was working and available, and I would've bought my Leaf instead of leasing it.

If this works, ill skip buying xpower and pop 77kwh pack in my leaf :)

The use of the battery and the need to charge it via USB-C is an interesting choice. I wonder why they don't just trickle charge it off the 12v coming from the pilot pin? Maybe it caused the voltage to sag too much, dropping down too low so that it wasn't in compliance with J1772 voltages? The spec requires "vehicle present" to be ~ 9v via pull-down resistors between Pilot and Signal Ground.

and why do people stick with adapters? why not convert the vehicle?

Why to make an adapter? Is it so difficult to change the ChADeMo to a CCS. How much work does it require to the car itself? Obviously there are several electrical parts that need modifying, and software! But is it impossible?

I am looking forward too, please have Success!!!

Surely the contactor will only operate when the charger energises the cable/CCS plug? If so, then the one-pole contactor is not relevant in terms of 'isolation'...?

Is this the same product you showed and demonstrated in your latest video? And have you been able to use it with multiple different chargers? Has the issue been fully resolved? I'd love to buy one off alibaba, but they're forcing me to buy two instead of just the one, so I'd need to put the second one up for sale on ebay or something like that to make my money's worth

When your CCS2 to Chademo converter will be ready what you were doing?

Nice !!

Hey Dala! I wanted to let you know that I finally gave up Chademo last month and sold my Nissan Leaf. I decided to buy a Tesla with the NACS charging port (I don't think you have these in Europe, or do you?) Anyways, in my short assessment, NACS is superior in pretty much every way to both Chademo and CCS. As I'm sure you know, most of the US domestic manufacturers have coalesced around NACS within the past few months so it seems like CCS and Chademo are pretty much dead men walking in the US. Do you have any experience with NACS and what is your opinion on it?

How about to replace on Leaf type 1 conector with ccs2 (including electronics) conector so you wil have two dc fast charging standards?

Hi Dala! I have a Hyundai classic Ioniq from 2019. It came with Chademo plug but all around the world it uses CCS. Do you think it will be possible to change Chademo to CCS "easily"? What should I look at in this conversion?

My leaf is such a tiny battery so I mainly charge on 13a plug but this could be useful althou is 50a throu that safe?

That thing feels a bit like those dodgy adapters that gas car drivers use, with sometimes predictable results... 💥🙈 Interesting device however, but I rather see a retrofitted CCS port on the Leaf. That would take away any hassle with supplying 12 V or having double contactors, and CCS is everywhere. Chademo is totally unnecessary, unless doing V2G.

Do you have a link to this adapter?

I really want to figure out a NACS/CCS to CHAdeMO adapter for my Leaf.

Chademo protecol is never going to get matched to CCS. It's different handshake sensing in principle. It's just fapourware.

Where is that adapter found l??

Is there any follow up on how the LEVC TX electric taxi has both CHAdeMO and CCS.??

Great

Big Clunky JUNK...

I think this is mainly driven by wishful thinking. I don't believe there will be such an adapter that doesn't violate several electrical standards anytime soon. I wish an ecoflow powered DC -> DC CCS charger would exist but it doesn't.

Bonjour je possède l'adaptateur et j'ai un problème avec un type de borne qui s'arrête entre 10 et 13 minutes de charge ... Cela peut-il venir de ma batterie interne pas assez chargé ? ... Est-ce normal que quand je change en USB l'appareil clignote rapidement au démarrage puis lentement un certain temps et recommencer indéfiniment ? Je ne suis pas sûr que la batterie interne charge vraiment . Comment cela se passe au niveau des voyants quand vous le mettez en charge vous ? Cordialement Et bravo de France

Could this be Adapted to ccs charge a custom build EV?

So how do I get one of these? Is there a pre-order list somewhere?

👍💪✌

Dala, I have a 2013 nissan leaf that I changed the battery, what should I do to see the bars of the new battery cause apparently I am seeing what the previous was registering? Thanks in advance for your advise.

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