Lee Lightfoot
New Member
I understand some NACS destination chargers have 277 volts (a common industrial voltage) and CCS1 looks to max out at 240 volts, with simple adaptors how will the pre 2024 EV's handle 277 volts?
Is this what CharIN and SAE need to wrangle into the NACS standards corral?
I understand (from the internet) that Mach-E lists 280V in their service manual, so maybe they can handle the 277v.
Onboard charge controllers, charge slower on 208V (another common standard) so faster at higher voltages might mean, a F-150 accepting 80 amps of 277V will get 22.1KW about 15% more than advertised.
277V is only 15% more pushy, than 240 by my math (240 X 1.15 = 277) might work great or maybe it will just trip some overvoltage sensor and stop the attempted charge. I just hope it doesn't let the smoke out of those magic smoke storage boxes.
Is this what CharIN and SAE need to wrangle into the NACS standards corral?
I understand (from the internet) that Mach-E lists 280V in their service manual, so maybe they can handle the 277v.
Onboard charge controllers, charge slower on 208V (another common standard) so faster at higher voltages might mean, a F-150 accepting 80 amps of 277V will get 22.1KW about 15% more than advertised.
277V is only 15% more pushy, than 240 by my math (240 X 1.15 = 277) might work great or maybe it will just trip some overvoltage sensor and stop the attempted charge. I just hope it doesn't let the smoke out of those magic smoke storage boxes.