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Are you sure leafs can use superchargers? That doesn’t seem correct at all. I’m not sure what other charging network i would refer to.
by drb91 9y ago
Are you sure leafs can use superchargers? That doesn’t seem correct at all.
I’m not sure what other charging network i would refer to.
- EwanToo 9y agoIn the UK I've never seen a supercharger (though they exist) but lots of car parks at offices, shopping malls, etc, have generic charging points. BP are adding them on petrol forecourts too. See this map for example https://www.zap-map.com/charge-points/ https://www.zap-map.com/charge-points/
- _ph_ 9y agoSuperchargers are usually built outside of cities along the long-distance routes. So they might not be as obvious as other chargers. Here is a map of all active superchargers: https://supercharge.info/ https://supercharge.info/
- tobyhinloopen 9y agoYou can use all non-tesla fast-charging stations, charging to 80% in 20 minutes. Do note that tesla supercharger stations also have "normal" fast-charging stations. Tesla is the only company remaining to deploy vendor-specific chargers.
- bdcravens 9y agoInteresting that while we tend to beat on the standards drum in HN, Tesla might get a pass ...
- marvin 9y agoI don't think it's entirely fair to expect Tesla to _wait_ for the rest of the car industry to agree on a standard that suits everyone. When the Model S was developed, no other car company except Nissan had any notable interest in electric cars, and no other company had plans to make cars even _close_ to Tesla's in terms of battery capacity. Assuming that a charger network was necessary for success, which I would argue it was, waiting for the others to catch up could have killed the company. Note that there have still been no large-scale deployments of charging standards with more than 50-60kW of power, which is half what Tesla is currently deploying to most of its charging stations in North America.
- ClassyJacket 9y agoThey don't even have to wait for an open standard, they could make their proprietary system one.
- AckSyn 9y agoAre Tesla super chargers really proprietary, or were they built for use with their cars when no one else had any kind of infrastructure in place? Tesla has given away a lot of tech for electric cars and I've read that's why China has had a boon of them recently. Can't say I wouldn't see them giving the specifications for the charging units to US manufacturers as well...
- _ph_ 9y agoTesla offered their implementation to all car manufacturers, including access to the Supercharger network, but none took the offer.
- rocky1138 9y agohttps://www.tesla.com/blog/all-our-patent-are-belong-you https://www.tesla.com/blog/all-our-patent-are-belong-you
- gigogkggi 9y agoNot a Tesla fanboy at all but it's too early right now to settle on standards, it would stifle innovation.
- s2g 9y agoIt's not. You need standards to get the ubiquitous charging availability to make electric cars popular.
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- PhaseBlue 9y agoTesla released their patents on charging back in 2014 in the hopes that others would adopt their tech: https://www.tesla.com/blog/all-our-patent-are-belong-you https://www.tesla.com/blog/all-our-patent-are-belong-you Have you seen Tesla's charging connector? It's way superior to the bulky standardized connectors. And as said by others, there really is no other game in town right now for long distance travel in an EV. Disclosure: I own a Tesla Model S.
- s2g 9y agoNon-standard is not superior.
- ec109685 9y agoTesla super charging stations don’t have normal fast charging stations co-located.
- _ph_ 9y agoTesla is the only car company which creates large scale charging networks.