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Thursday, 18 October 2012

Society of Automotive Engineers announces electric car charging plug standard


The electric and plug-in hybrid car industry is learning the lesson of the mobile phone makers. Instead of allowing a plethora of incompatible charging plugs to sprout up, the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) International hopes to forestall confusion by settling on one charging plug design for North America. SAE has selected the J1772 combo plug as the standard, which uses paired couplers to allow for both AC and DC charging using the same plug. .. Continue Reading Society of Automotive Engineers announces electric car charging plug standard

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