SAE CCS / Combo DC Fast Charger at BMW World in Munich

[ChrisC]

It appears that the very first operational and publicly available SAE CCS / Combo DC Fast Charger has gone online today in Munich. Actually, TWO of them!

http://www.bimmertoday.de/2013/07/04/bmw-welt-schnellladestation-elektroauto-ladesaeule-i3-elektro/

I've added it to Recargo:

http://www.recargo.com/sites/10306

As far as I know these two co-located DCFC stations are the first on the planet.

 

[ChrisC]

Update: I found two more SAE CCS sites, in the USA, that may have preceded this site, but it's unclear whether either one actually operational.

Obviously right now only a Chevy Spark would realistically be able to test them out, as first one was just delivered about two weeks ago:

http://chevysparkev.blogspot.com/
(caution: he's an EV newbie who is just learning about all this EV stuff, be gentle )

Perhaps BMW will truck one of their Woodcliff Lake i3 units out west to test those stations out!

Anyway, here are the other two sites.

http://www.recargo.com/sites/8195/
Bowlin Travel Center - Shell - Picacho, AZ

http://www.recargo.com/sites/10290
GM Powertrain Advanced Technology Center - Torrance, California

 

[TomMoloughney]

Update: I found two more SAE CCS sites, in the USA, that may have preceded this site, but it's unclear whether either one actually operational.


Perhaps BMW will truck one of their Woodcliff Lake i3 units out west to test those stations out!

Chris: BMW has a couple CCS units at Woodcliff Lake, they've been operational for over a year now. I have even used one to charge a retrofitted ActiveE that they were testing. Here's a picture of an i3 parked next to one of them:

 

[TomMoloughney]

Here's a close up of that station:

 

[ChrisC]

Cool! Thanks Tom!