[bbgator]

I'd rather lose a $190 adapter than have to pay $1000s for damage to my car caused by an abused public charging station.

That statement hurts my engineering head sooo much!!!! I agree but it is sad. Any connector that mates and de-mates often should be designed to be easily (and cheaply) replaced. Sad that replacing the BMW CCS1 connector cost $1000's. This was covered in another forum. But until BMW fixes there crappy design, I agree with you. Adding another connector is another fail point and adapters are not a good solution.

A better design would be a connector saver. These are very common in the electronics industry. Basically it is an adapter that is semi-permenantly connected to the connector. So an adapter that you leave on your car all the time. That obvously won't work for the i4 since you wouldn't be able to close the flap.

 

[Jonathan S.]

Now I just need to get a BMW approved female CCS1/ male CCS1 adapter (not sure those exist yet) to protect my car at CCS1 stations.

If you really wanted to, then you could just use two adapters with the opposite purposes, thereby cancelling each other out.
That's actually how the first J3400>CCS1 adapters were tested before any CCS1 cars had TSCN access -- you'd be using the same adapters, except in the reverse sequence.

 

[F1Geek]

If you really wanted to, then you could just use two adapters with the opposite purposes, thereby cancelling each other out.
That's actually how the first J3400>CCS1 adapters were tested before any CCS1 cars had TSCN access -- you'd be using the same adapters, except in the reverse sequence.

Sure, BMW should be offering both since the iX3 and other future BMWs will need the adapter for CCS1.