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Japan To Standardize Electric Vehicle Chargers

Posted by kdawson on from the twist-of-lemon-please dept.

JoshuaInNippon writes "Four major Japanese car manufacturers and one power company (Mitsubishi, Nissan, Subaru, Toyota, and Tokyo Electric) have teamed up with over 150 business and government entities in Japan to form a group to promote standardization in electric vehicle chargers and charging stations. The group hopes to leverage current Japanese electric vehicle technology and spread standardization throughout the country, as well as aim towards worldwide acceptance of their standardized charger model. In a very Japanese manner, the group has decided to call themselves 'CHAdeMO,' a play on the English words 'charge' and 'move,' as well as a Japanese pun that encourages tea-drinking while waiting the 15+ minutes it will take to charge one's vehicle battery."

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  1. Quick by ArsonSmith · · Score: 5, Funny

    We Americans need to come up with our own, incompatible, standard for charging vehicles.

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    1. Re:Quick by Evelas · · Score: 5, Funny

      and puns, we can't let the Japanese be beating us on puns.

    2. Re:Quick by sakdoctor · · Score: 4, Funny

      USB

    3. Re:Quick by natehoy · · Score: 4, Funny

      So I can charge my car from my laptop, then? Brilliant!

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    4. Re:Quick by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 4, Funny

      You sickening, worthless, un-American, communist. America should let the free market come up with at least 3 competing, mutually incompatible charging standards. Each with its own DRM system to prevent nimbler third parties from offering cheaper alternatives! Ideally, chargers shouldn't even be interoperable between vehicle lines produced by the same company.

    5. Re:Quick by CheeseTroll · · Score: 5, Funny

      And then charge your laptop from the car's 12v outlet!

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    6. Re:Quick by natehoy · · Score: 5, Funny

      Not at all. We hook up a generator and use the motion of Galileo and Liebniz spinning in their graves for power.

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    7. Re:Quick by jimbolauski · · Score: 4, Funny

      The communist way would be much better people waiting in long lines to use the only recharge station because nobody is motivated to innovate except for the threat of the trips to the gulag, I mean reeducation camp, wait no work camp.

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  2. Connector style? by Yvan256 · · Score: 4, Funny

    So, what does the connector look like? I bet it's a tentacle of some sort.