If you look in Ebay or Amazon, there must be a hundred cheap Chinese no name adapters. Good luck collecting on a warranty from two guys selling from a garage in Guangzhou that also sell vibrators and wigs. Or is it vibrating wigs? The lectron and tesla tap seems to be the only after market adapters with legitimate electronics engineering.
True. But sometimes I wonder: as Wunderbar as the wunderbox why do I wunder if it would cook the car should I try the toddler equivalent of sticking a fork in a socket? Surely as it throttles up for max current, it should throttle down for a hotwire. Or am I giving the engineering too much credit?
sorry but there needs to be more to this story.
SOME adapters may not be properly made, and could cause failures. Teslataps though should be fine!
A company can't void a warranty just because you use a third party accessory. That being said, damage caused by you isn't covered by warranty in the first place, so a defective adapter that actually causes damage will result in damage that's not covered by the warranty. The warranty will still apply to everything else covered by warranty, as long as the device didn't damage it.
It's because of how charging speed is measured. A more efficient car will go more miles on a given amount of electricity than a less efficient one, so adding the same amount to the battery at the same speed would be reflected as adding more miles in the same amount of time. It's a bit like saying that the 2x concentrated laundry detergent pours out of the bottle twice as fast as the 1x, because it takes half the time to pour out enough for a load. It still pours at the same speed but you don't need as much. Likewise you don't need to use as much electricity to go 100 miles in a Lucid as you do in a Model S, so to add 100 miles of range, you stop charging a Lucid sooner. You've added less but you need less.
No one knows any extra info about bi-directional charging. My Lucid Wall Charger is installed on an existing 30-amp line until I can pull my ass together and clean out my other garage where I had a 100-amp line installed.
I'll be happy to help.
Got it. Thanks.
The faster charging has to do with the Lucid, not the adapter.
That is true, but if you travel with it and come across a higher amp charger, you could fry something.
I can imagine it. I can also imagine a set if standards for SDKs related to it, so that if I have a Tesla powerwall that's already monitoring what's coming to and from the grid, the same current transformers could let Lucid's equipment know. But I don't see that happening. The only situation I can see that I'd want power coming from the car would be for an extended power outage, especially when there are consecutive rainy days. And then I'd want solar, home battery and car to work together. By that, I mean having the car take in any excess energy from solar during an outage, but not charge the car at a higher rate than needed to assure that all the solar energy can be used (or perhaps slightly more for wiggle room),, give power to the house when the grid is down, there's not enough sun, the home battery needs charging without sun, and potentially more if my rate structure changes.
