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Shame on Nissan for not providing an official adapter. What a crappy company.

What a total waste of time and money. I have no such issues at a gas station. Grab hose, squeeze handle, fill tank, pay (or prepay) and done!

Great video, Euan - interesting to reflect on how far we've come in a few short years, CCS rapid charging now effectively the standard with - it seems to me - plentiful availability in most places. Hopefully this adapter will help keep all those indestructible Leaf's and Souls that lead the way going for a while yet !

I owned a 62 kWh Leaf for a year (2023), mostly charging at home. The highest power I ever saw on a CHAdeMO charger was 74 kW. This was a one-off test on a local BP Pulse, on a December evening. All other chargers I ever came across were limited to 50 kW. The scarcity of CHAdeMO chargers and the worry about them being phased out was the main reason I sold the car after a year. There is (was?) a company in The Hague that converted Leafs to CCS, but that cost about 6000 Euros, if I remember correctly. This adapter is a bargain compared to that conversion.

I've seen other tests that weren't that fussy on the communication.

I have a 40 kwh Leaf and am curious about these adaptors but also uneasy about them. We're talking high voltages and amps going through some adapter made by an unknown brand. Also seems flaky if you have to half plug one side in first, before putting it in the car. Is it possible to get a CCS installed in stead of chademo? Or even replace the type 2 socket with CCS on the Leaf?

I was very interested in this as I have chademo too, a Soul EV. I'm noticing that despite the fact you can still buy new chademo cars (the Leaf), it is very much the poor relation now that CCS is the standard. With around 135 miles range and 100kW charging, it should be future proof, but the lack of chademo chargers more than negates that.

Can it be tested on a 40kw leaf please?

I've seen up to around 72 / 73 kW on a 100 kW chademo charger on my Leaf e+ so it makes sense. I don't think it took 2-3 minutes to ramp up; I'm going to guess that the battery was warmer than yours as it had done a good bit more than a hundred miles at the time. It's over a year ago we're talking about now, though. I don't drive enough anymore to merit buying one of these adapters; certainly not at the moment; but it is good that they exist.

Anything on the legality of using these in terms of the CPOs? Can't imagine they're going to be thrilled at the prospect of these starting to become slightly more common.

Very interesting - could be worth having. I don't do too much long distance travel but I have the 62kWh Leaf. A question of personal interest ... would the adapter work for CHAdeMO based V2G connections? Does this adapter do both directions?

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Thanks for the video. I have an Electway CCS1 to CHAdeMO adapter since last July. I've always kept the car off while hooking up and can't say that I've encountered the problem you experienced. I can generally get around 77 kW max on a charge. It was expensive, but as you stated, it opens up so many charger possibilities. Supposedly, there are even some Tesla sites that will work although I haven't tried any yet. Thanks again.

Please dont clog fast chargers with this slow chademo nonsense.

Good to see a way to preserve the utility of a Leaf. Over 30 CHAdeMO ripped out on routes we travel in California. When the Leaf Plus (US term) was introduced, FASTNED released a photo of the car on a test bed charging at 102kW. Nissan advertised the car as capable of 100kW. They partnered with EVgo to install 200 100kW CHAdeMO plugs in the US. Unfortunately, the cables used were limited to 200A so our car never saw more than 78kW. 270A or so needed for 100kW. But our charge curve was quite a bit flatter than what you experienced.

Can you get a Kona to charge the other way - on Chademo, by turning it around the other way ? (asking for a friend)!

Brilliant Euan , great to see the Tesla Chadamo adapter being tested too with the new CCS/ Chadamo adapter ! Hope you're well sir ! Jp 🤓

The graph looks very similar (without the spikes) to a charge I had on a 200amp Chademo when the 62kWh first came out. Think it hit peak 76kW but it was in Summer. You could take E’s car over to MFG Napier or Clepington Road to see what it gets from a 80kW/100kW Chademo to compare graphs for them, see if it has that spike.

This adapter is of great interest. Last summer we travelled down to central France in our 40kW Leaf. We were able to find Chademo chargers but they are limited. Some chargers didn't work, some would not release the cable. As soon as the price drops to something sensible I will be getting one of these adapters. Thank you for the video.

Great news for long life Leafs. It is now the lowest VED car around. Suddenly battery replacement looks appealing. Any thoughts on the state of play there?

Great to see you again. Missed you. Good video for all leaf owners.

The faster you charge a Lithium battery, the higher your chances of Lithium plating occurring, which then results in dendrite formation, which perforate the separating membrane and results in thermal runaway. Don’t take my word for it research Lithium plating and thermal runaway.

Why not changing CCS2 plug on Nissan leaf? No need adapter anymore? Complete replacement cost 360€...

Regularly get over 50 on our 62kwh on 80-100. does depend on the charger though. I've got 100 once...

An adaptor is on my shopping list ;) Great video. I appreciate they are new kids on the block but I'm wondering will and adaptor outlive the car?

Hi New, to your channel I’m looking for an adapter for my Nissan leaf 30 kg 2017. Will this fit the I am in the UK? Could you put me on some sites which do the address for the UK?

Throughout the video I was thinking if anyone had been crazy enough to try that CCS adapter with a Tesla CHAdeMO adapter, and then you did! I notice your Tesla CHAdeMO adapter is revision C. Perhaps a revision D adapter would work?

Miev/c-zero/ion compatible?

I thought the Leaf's battery wasn't cooled?

I bought an A2Z adapter five months ago and it’s worked on every occasion but now I have 2 updates to install.. With import costs it over £1000 but I have no plans to sell my Leaf Plus before 2060. 😢

Great video thank you. My daughter has a 24 kWh Nissan Leaf in Canada and with the great distances travelled in Canada I'm sure this will be of great interest to her. I have forwarded on this video.

You should check out Conrad's converter. Ev-Boy £650. He visits chargers and collects the debug information. Updates the firmware all the time. It seems to not run into the issues you had. CCS isn't as closely defined a protocol as Chademo. Conrad's unit has a usb drive that can collect the debug info. It's more of a community effort which is why it's also less expensive. People are continuing to contribute debug info.

I own a 2018 nissan leaf, but I am looking to buy an adapter. The only ones I can find are very expensive. Some of over a thousand pounds. Can you tell me if i can buy one cheaper, or get one on a payment plan. Will put you on my subscription list and wait for an answer. Thanks again and good job.

Lovely to see you back 👍

I dread to think what this is doing to the BMS readings. Any change in Hx of SOH readings after this experiment in LSP? I'd rather just use the LEAF 40 as a medium-range EV to avoid lots of potentially damaging battery temperatures, charging on AC while I'm at work/asleep. If I had an e+ I'd just stop to charge every 150 miles and have a nice long snack-break while I wait.

thought e+ could do 120kW ?

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we have driven our 2014 Leaf from the UK to Spain and looked at the adapter to allow us many more charging places and route options but were not sure if it would work. Won't be able to get one in time for our return trip home but this video gives us confidence to try it for the next trip out. Thanks

Not sure if there’s a valid business case for renting these adapters… If a business invested in several of them and rented them out (with a chunky deposit) to road tripping Leaf/ENV owners does that make financial sense?

Good to see you Euan. You survived a trip to Fife..... 😉

I haven't tried it yet (not needed to), but I recently bought an adapter from Jiangsu Orientrise Technology Co for about £640. It has a battery inside it, which I suspect might help in the initial plugging in phase. I will give it a go sometime and see.

Even if you only get the normal speeds, its a game changer just being able to use ccs. Next, will tesla let it charge? Then you get cheap chargeing too.

Great to see you back Euan - I think this is an excellent idea, as you say it just opens up so many more chargers to leaf owners, regardless of the theoretical slight improvement in charging speeds. I guess it is much the same as many US car manufacturers now providing NACS adapters for cars originally fitted with CCS to enable them to use the Tesla supercharger network. I don't know whether the NACS & CCS protocols used are more similar than CCS vs Chademo. Feeding back to the manufacturers on the niggles involved in trying these new products will be a benefit for everyone in the future.

I've seen 77kW peak on our LEAF e+. LeafSpy said was 200A 385V, and the cable on both chargers was rated at 200A was rated at 200A (ABB Terra HP and Alpitronic HYC400, GridServe have the Terra HP are many of the Motoway Services sites nowerdays). It's conceivable that the e+ could go faster than that, it was originally advertised as capable of 100kW, which would be 260A or 250A with the theoretical 400V peak (despite it curtailing current above 385V).

The issue with a CCS - CHAdeMO adaptor is that the car and charger both expect the other to provide power on the signal wires. Thus the adaptor has no reliable power until charging is started. To overcome this the adaptor has some onboard storage (I think a large capacitor) my adaptor came with a 12V lead and needs to charge before use. The first time I used it I didn't realise the need to charge in advance so I used it with the lead still plugged in, it is quite long. If you have power in the adaptor (12V cable or stored) to make the light flash and plug it into the car first, I have found it starts reliably (eNV200).

I imagine this would make the Lexus UX more useable too.

Good to see you back. But I needed the captions to read as being 'Mutton Geoff' for past couple of months. Captions got stuck at Glenrothes! I used to live there. Your past explainers have helped me with better understanding of how my EV performs with both AC and DC charging.

I have had 75 Kw with m E+ Nissan on a Chademo 150k charger and it stayed until about 65% then went down to 45Kw until 80%.

Great video! I reckon most Leafs will end up becoming grocery runners which rarely leave their town, but it's good to know that there is a solution if people want to use rapid chargers as chademo is gradually phased out. Looking forward to the upcoming generations of the Leaf because it's always been a lovely car

Hi Euan!! 👋🏻 I've seen 47 kW on a fast CHAdeMO charger. I think that's the real world maximum for that car. When I'm using my adapter, I plug both ends in first, and get the charger to accept payment and THEN start the adapter. That seems to work best in terms of timing. Also if the CCS2 plug (or the car socket) is worn, physically supporting the adapter and cable helps with handshake by preventing 'droop'.