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Japan To Standardize Electric Vehicle Chargers
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."
They do have a standard:
http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/09/10/24/033257/Universal-Phone-Charger-Approved-By-UN-Body
There's no -1 for "I don't get it."
We Americans need to come up with our own, incompatible, standard for charging vehicles.
No problem dude we already have at least two incompatible charger standards.
SAE J1772 and IEC 62196
The SAE standard is supported by all the domestic manufacturers, AND THE JAPANESE whom supposedly, according to the article, want yet another standard. Probably SONY wants a battery charger with a root kit or something like that.
The IEC standard, which apparently no one wants to use, is basically the SAE on steroids with a bunch more control/DRM pins.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAE_J1772
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