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> Tesla has offered access to their superchargers, but legacy car companies haven’t taken them up on the offer Probably because Tesla demanded something that t
by foepys 6y ago
> Tesla has offered access to their superchargers, but legacy car companies haven’t taken them up on the offer
Probably because Tesla demanded something that they knew other manufacturers won't give them.
They pulled the same PR stunt when they offered their pretty limited patent pool in exchange for all patents of the partaking manufacturers. Nobody wanted to take part because as a result Tesla would have had access to all patents while the others would only have had access to Tesla's patents. A pretty bad deal for everybody except Tesla.
- fossuser 6y agoI’m not sure how bad a deal that would have been for the legacy companies - I’d guess most of their patents are worthless (maybe good for defense). The legacy car companies are held back by the dealer model and failing to execute for ten years giving tesla a massive head start. I’m not sure they’ll be able to survive the transition. Refusing to support superchargers just makes whatever EVs they do come up with a non-starter. The Electrify America network sucks.
- foepys 6y agoThose "legacy" companies are already selling more EV than Tesla in Norway. Norway taxes ICE to an extreme and was Tesla's PR example where they claimed to be the front-runner. In 2020 from January to October the Model 3 was behind the Audi e-Tron, VW's aging e-Golf, the VW ID.3, the Hyundai Kona, and the Nissan Leaf.
- fossuser 6y agoNorway isn’t that big - a lot of the advantages tesla has don’t matter as much there so it’s not as easily comparable. Beyond that I don’t know the specifics (price in Norway, etc.)