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I 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 dev
by marvin 9y ago
I 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