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Tesla has offered all electrical car companies access to the supercharger network - I am not aware of any who accepted the offer. Only now there seems to be an
by _ph_ 10y ago
Tesla has offered all electrical car companies access to the supercharger network - I am not aware of any who accepted the offer. Only now there seems to be an European standard for DC high power charging, but there are few charging stations (and except the Tesla cars) no cars which can deliver/take more than 50kW.
- dangrossman 10y agoCombined Charging System, aka SAE Combo? Not only are there more CCS stations in the US than Supercharger locations already, but CCS isn't just European. Every manufacturer of EVs in NA at least is already on board, save Tesla and Nissan. Renault just joined the consortium, so Nissan is likely to follow. BMW, Volkswagen, GM, Daimler, Ford, Fiat, Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep, Maserati, Renault, Audi, Volvo, Porsche and Hyundai are all on board with CCS for charging, and demonstrations have already been done of charging rates exceeding Tesla's Superchargers. As for Tesla's "offer" to share: that would have amounted to a Tesla tax on every EV sold. There was little chance their competitors would take them up on that. And now that the ratio of cars to chargers is about to explode while they already see lines at popular travel times, the window of opportunity to sell access to their charging network has closed.