No. Tesla's adapter standard is available to all other vendors, as are their patents, if they merely agree not to sue tesla over the standards. Tesla also inclu

No. Tesla's adapter standard is available to all other vendors, as are their patents, if they merely agree not to sue tesla over the standards. Tesla also includes the adapter for free for j1772. Technically tesla's adapter is far superior to the adapters that came later and before technically - one small adapter for ac and dc, they forced the j1772 adapter to be higher power (100/80 amps max), they built their cars with enough internal charging onboard ac adapters. The rest of the industry, the us sae hated the threat of tesla and refused to adapt teslas. Then they have iterated over a set of horrible kludges often called the frankenplug.