Using V2L to charge another EV via CCS female-female cable?

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Using V2L to charge another EV via CCS female-female cable?

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Greetings,

I've seen videos where people use a V2L adapter from one EV, then plug a normal EVSE into that to transfer AC power from one EV to another.

Has anyone seen a wiring diagram for a straight CCS female to CCS female cable that enables V2L at one end and charges the other?
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Re: Using V2L to charge another EV via CCS female-female cable?

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This requires a (buck) converter, to transform the higher battery voltage of the sender car to the lower voltage of the receiver car. Or, more general, a DC/DC converter to convert any sender voltage to any receiver voltage. There was an Ioniq some years ago equipped with such a (big) box in the trunk, to charge others.
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Re: Using V2L to charge another EV via CCS female-female cable?

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I'm not talking DC-DC.

Donor electron vehicle is in V2L mode, sending AC out of the CCS port.

Thinking about it a little more, an EVSE would still be required to do the signalling, so the easiest way would be to just remove the normal power input plug off an EVSE and substitute it with a V2L CCS connector.
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Re: Using V2L to charge another EV via CCS female-female cable?

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Maybe I do not get the point. You write "CCS", I interpreted this as you want DC. Because for using AC you just need the Type 2 connectors. A CCS female does not have AC pins.
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