1) The problem is that some non-Tesla EVs charge incredibly slowly as their maximum rate, 50kW or lower vs 150,250,etc kW of more modern EVs. Tesla has "urban

1) The problem is that some non-Tesla EVs charge incredibly slowly as their maximum rate, 50kW or lower vs 150,250,etc kW of more modern EVs. Tesla has "urban superchargers" that are at malls, museums, etc where people are expected to dwell longer and even those are 75kW! So dwell time while charging for a Leaf, i3, etc just to make it to the next charger could be a while by comparison. Meanwhile I pull up to highway supercharger in my Tesla expecting to take a 10min break to stretch my legs & use the restroom while getting 100mi of charge only to find the chargers blocked by putzes with their slow charging cars. The ICE analogy would be pulling into a gas station to find the pumps taken up by gigantic industrial trucks with 300 gallon tanks that you are stuck behind.. or some shitty Yugos or something that force the pump into a slower filling mode that takes them 5x as long to fill up. Maybe none of this matters in US as the vast vast majority of EVs are Tesla anyway, and as others make inroads it will be with cars capable of fast enough charge rates? As it stands today in NYC area, Tesla has about 5x the charger locations of EA, each of which has 4x the number of chargers so... 2) I'm also curious how the payments will be handled. Another aspect that makes Superchargers for Tesla streamlined is that you just pull up & plug-in, the authorization/confirmation of payment is done between the car&charger because your car is tied to your account & credit card. I have found the app/web/QR code/credit card/NFC/RFID dance using 3rd party chargers to take up to 5 minutes to get payment sorted (idiotically none of them just have a credit card swipe like a gas station). Further, we've seen that one weak point for Electrify America seems to be the payment system frequently failing at the charger or server side and people showing up to chargers unable to plug in.