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> If they get federal funds to enable CCS, fine, otherwise keep the advantage to drive sales There's no advantage to a proprietary charge port. Closed charging
by clouddrover 4y ago
> If they get federal funds to enable CCS, fine, otherwise keep the advantage to drive sales
There's no advantage to a proprietary charge port. Closed charging networks are dumb infrastructure. Tesla is slowly realizing that switching to CCS will lead to higher utilization and reduced costs:
https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/28/22596337/tesla-supercharger-elon-musk-open-network-charging-stations https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/28/22596337/tesla-supercharg...
> Tesla has sunk almost $1B into its global fast DC charging network
Then Tesla can spend some more to change the plugs over to CCS, just like they did in Europe.