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Only Tesla uses a proprietary charging protocol.

AFAIK other car makers in the US use either CCS or ChaDeMo.

In Europe, all car makers (including Tesla) support CCS.

CCS allows DC charging and has support for load balancing, so I assume it could be feasible to create a home CCS charger that directly charges an EV with DC from solar panels.

However, considering how expensive power electronics are, and how difficult it would be to integrate such a charger into an existing solar installation, I have doubts that many people would buy such a charger. Also, I don't really know how CCS works in detail, so I may be totally wrong about this.



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