About us

Who are we, and why do we only sell one product in this online store?

We currently only sell one product, this CCS-to-CHADEMO adapter. The motivation for selling this is to give as many cars in Norway as possible that cannot charge at CCS charging stations the opportunity to "get a new life".

My name is Terje Oegema, and I am an XPENG G3 electric car owner. This car has CHAdeMO as a charging standard and I bought this brand new car knowing the limitations this would entail. I have taken the car on holiday to the Netherlands three years in a row, and every year I could see that there were fewer and fewer CHAdeMO charging options along the road. In the summer of 2024 I really noticed the decline of this old standard when many of the old charging stations had been replaced with new fast-chargers that do not have CHAdeMO at all. It was a big difference from previous years. Some chargers were not even updated in the charging maps, so I got "false" hits on CHAdeMO stations that no longer existed.

The first searches I did on the internet for a chademo adapter only yielded hits that said this did not exist, that it was technically "impossible" to make, and too small a scope for anyone to want to try to make such an adapter. I had almost given up hope of ever being able to charge my car on CCS. I enviously stood in the charging queue at the old, lonely charging post with one CHAdeMO connector while there were dozens of new, vacant CCS stations right across the street. Then one day, the internet search finally yielded hits that someone in Finland was working on a project to make electronics that could make CHAdeMO and CCS "talk" to each other. A large suitcase with lots of wires and a battery and a computer. Before this was completed, the news came that the Chinese had managed to develop an adapter where the computer and electronics and battery were miniaturized in one and the same unit. Finally, the dream of charging my car on CCS stations could become a reality. I had even considered selling the car because of this before this news came out at the end of 2023. Would we suddenly be able to charge our Leafs and G3s and other CHAdeMO cars on Tesla's charging network, or on Ionity, Uno-X and all the other large charging stations? It seemed that way. I ordered an adapter as soon as a dealer appeared in Europe. It was Autonlaturit.com in Finland. I contacted the seller and offered to test the adapter in Norway. I had been following the internet for a while and read that even though these were now for sale, the software was not yet well enough developed for it to work everywhere. During a lot of testing over many months, the software has matured and together with everyone else who has contributed to the testing, I can now recommended it to all car owners who want to charge their car at CCS stations.

But there were no "real" retailers in Norway selling these adapters from a Norwegian online store that does not require the customer to clear customs and pay VAT to receive the product. The problem with many online stores that "look" Norwegian is that they are actually located abroad and thus the goods must be cleared into Norway and the VAT is subsequently invoiced to the customer. And if the product needs service or return to the foreign seller, it must be cleared out of customs and possibly back into Norway again. That involves a lot of "paperwork" for the customer. After all, the adapter is quite expensive since it is full of advanced electronics, so you would like to make a safe purchase in a store subject to Norwegian law. This was also the thought of the owner of the Finnish online store that I had had some contact with in connection with the testing. He had noticed my enthusiasm for this adapter and asked if I would help him sell it in Norway, from a Norwegian online store. I immediately agreed to this. Not to make a lot of money, because this market is not big enough for that. But there are still a large number of Nissan Leaf and other cars on Norwegian roads that can get an "extended life" and new use value when this adapter can be used to charge on CCS. And when these cars one day disappear from the roads, this online store will probably also cease to exist, unless some other ingenious products have come onto the market that "I just have to" share with you!