Okay, one, the main reason why you get fast kettles over in Europe isn't 3 phase power, it's because you can get 240V at the outlets. Electric kettles in the USA are, sadly, limited to 120V, 1500W. We can get higher power ones here, but they're more specialty items for commercial kitchens and such, and as such, are expensive.
That's because they (almost always) have two legs available at any time because, SURVEY SAYS!, they have 3 phase power on the premises. I got awful used to using high voltage devices because of that fact.
Charging in the home in the USA isn't limited to 11kW, it's more 24kW. About the same as Europe. I'm sure some are limited to 11kW, but that's due to legacy electrical, of course.
Curious, because I double checked home chargers yesterday the highest I saw was "12kw" but that's before overhead. Do me a favor though, I only see single phase chargers - be they in the US or Europe - Tesla or other vendors - listing 11kW for single phase and 22kW for 3 phase. Since 3 phase power in homes is nearly non-existent in the USA I'd like to see this charger.
I don't see any reason why a fleet vehicle sitting overnight charging would make CSS2 better than NACS. If it is able to sit and charge that long, to preserve the battery doing a "smart charge" that will see it reaching full charge over the course of 12-15 hours would be best. That might be only a few kW. Easily serviced by a single phase line.
I'm going to guess you are not related to any electricians. With CCS Type 2 on a site using 3 phase power, you can more easily deploy a large number of higher kW/hr (22 with overhead) "talking to each other" chargers. NACS will lack that third pin for 3 phase. With only two legs, fleet vehicles with higher usage might not be charged by morning, depending on the row. Oh, you don't see that do you? Fleets aren't usually driven like home vehicles at all. They can, and likely will, get much closer to "empty" on a daily basis. That means a higher utilization of charger infrastructure.
Oh and you forgot the higher efficiency of 3 phase power. I know, nobody in 'Murica ever thinks of that because, well, they only have single phase.
On to the USPS - I've looked at their usage scenarios before. For them, even a 11kW charger is going to be overkill. That said, the extra price for a DC charger system would be balanced against needing to spend less on the on-board charging system(just make it DC only). An outside DC fast charger would reduce wear and tear on the on-board system. Not needing to be able to handle 3 phase power also makes the on-board charger smaller and less complicated, IE cheaper.
Wow. Just wow. I'm gong to pretend that made sense and that you know something about power infrastructure. What you just suggested probably generated a several billion dollars more in electrical infrastructure costs. That's before ANY labor or DC charging equipment at USPS facilities. They're not just going to have to completely rebuild the parking lot, that was a given to get chargers in, but they're going to have to make all those chargers larger. They're going to have to haul in even MOAR POWER from the utility to feed those DC chargers. They're going to have to install more hardware, make rows shorter, probably expand the footprint of the parking lot to account for it all. Wow. Just wow.
Did you ever see the motorized electric equipment in a warehouse? The charging equipment that goes with all those forklifts and motorized pallet jacks? I'm going to guess not. Heck if you get to the bigger warehouses (like Amazon and Walgreens) they actually have battery depots to more efficiently handle the charging because deploying that many DC fast chargers would eat floor space. To make it so they don't need to eat the floor space they have equipment to pull out the battery, move it to "maintenance" (checks on acid and whatnot) cycle, charge cycle, and then redeployment. Even that takes up a fair chunk of space, but far less than deploying 50-100 or so dc fast chargers.
IE, CSS2 still isn't superior, just a design choice at best.
Until NACS Type 2, 3 Phase Pins Boogaloo is released, then CCS Type 2 will be superior for fleets in the USA.
I don't know the last time I saw somebody having trouble at a gas pump that wasn't related to the payment system as opposed to pumping. Oh, and I learned how to pump gas as a preteen, so I don't really remember it.
Welp, there's some self denial.
As for the charging port location - I'll give you this. I remember some early cars having it in the middle of the back or front of the car. I'll blame a mix of tradition(it's where most fuel doors for gasoline cars are), and not considering the possibility of charging while parallel parked with the street.
To be fair to Tesla, they put it really far back, so it shouldn't be that big of a problem, but it might be something to text Musk about.
Again, not just Tesla, many companies are dumb as bricks and it's because it's road side at all.
They might also switch to having both connectors NACS and CSS2 in US/Europe, China's specific plug in China, etc... https://electrek.co/2017/10/16...
The Tesla fan site doesn't interest me much at all. Also I'll place even money on CCS Type 2 still winning in the US after NACS is forced to add a pin to support 3 phase. Tesla can whine and scream, but given how expensive DC converters are vs just 3 phase chargers, for rural areas it makes more sense (ROI) to have high voltage 3 phase. Also before you say, "but the costs will drop" remember that will apply even more so to cars. If you can make a huge dc converter for a charging station cheaper, the one in the car will be much cheaper as well.
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They paper's opinion is bollocks. I wonder if they think they have a lot of TSA scanning in small places like Bethel? If they do, well, I've got some news for them as the last time I saw the place they didn't have a metal detecting wand.
Fast, cheap, good: pick two.