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Tesla making superchargers available as well to cars made by other manufacturers could become an interesting development, at least during the early days. Havin
by zepearl 5y ago
Tesla making superchargers available as well to cars made by other manufacturers could become an interesting development, at least during the early days.
Having read during the past months/years that Tesla's chargers are very reliable (not buggy nor just "offline" for some weird reason - e.g. just this afternoon I wanted to charge my hybrid at a specific parking garage in Zurich/Switzerland but the whole floor where the chargers are located was closed), a lot of car owners might want to use them => Tesla owners might get angry seeing that "their" chargers are all busy by non-Tesla cars => advantage of owning a Tesla would suffer.
On the other hand Tesla might get more (stable) earnings through this and the company might play with the charging cost, e.g. increasing the charging/parking cost for non-Tesla owners or at least taking more into consideration involving the cost the charging rate of the non-Tesla-car being charged and/or the time during which the charging station was busy.
I guess that the worst/most-expensive combination would be "non-tesla" + "big empty battery" + "low charging throughput"?