Izzy Posted February 16, 2023 Report Share Posted February 16, 2023 Every charging station near where I work is EVGo, and not compatible with the Energi. There's gotta be an adaptor somewhere... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adam1991 Posted February 17, 2023 Report Share Posted February 17, 2023 EVGo is DC fast charging, right? There's no adapting that to J1772. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jzchen Posted February 17, 2023 Report Share Posted February 17, 2023 Unfortunately the newer EVGo station installations do not seem to include J-1772 (Level 2) chargers, sadly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldbeyondmeasure Posted February 18, 2023 Report Share Posted February 18, 2023 Maybe plugshare.com can help you locate a J-1772 charger near your work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cr08 Posted February 19, 2023 Report Share Posted February 19, 2023 Plug type matters. Our cars can only handle L1/L2 AC charging via the J1772 connector. L3 or DC charging via either CCS or Chademo connectors will not work and no adapters exist that will make it work. Although not explicitly asked about, Tesla connectors are a weird beast. Superchargers are L3/DC and likewise are impossible to use with the C-Max. There are adapters out there that will allow you to use Tesla 'Destination chargers' or home chargers as they do J1772 internally and are L1/L2 AC. But these are the only cases where that's possible. There was a rumor going around some years back that newer model destination/home chargers were dropping the J1772 compatibility but I'm not sure how that panned out. More technical explanation: L1/L2 AC charging involves the car having an onboard charger built into the vehicle. What you plug in whether it is your included L1 'granny charger' or a public L2 one, they are glorified extension cords with some safety features. Power is fed directly from the grid to the vehicle and the onboard charger does the job of converting that so it can be fed to the battery. L3/DCFC bypasses any onboard chargers and connects straight to the battery. The actual 'charger' that converts grid AC power to DC is in the big industrial fridge sized units that sit near the EVSEs somewhere. This bypasses the onboard charger but the vehicle needs to specifically support it. The C-Max as well as many PHEVs do not. The only current PHEV I'm aware of that can is the Mitsubishi Outlander. jzchen and Bill-N 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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