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This feels both good and bad. Good: vehicles from the top two car manufacturers can now fill up at teslas stations, wildly increasing the reach of the electric
by kjellsbells 3y ago
This feels both good and bad.
Good: vehicles from the top two car manufacturers can now fill up at teslas stations, wildly increasing the reach of the electric fleet.
Bad: tesla just became Standard Oil. If you think Musk is wealthy now, wait until he controls the only source of juice for your car across the country.
- mullingitover 3y agoDoes this arrangement mean GM and Ford can make their own charging networks with Tesla-style connectors? If so, I’m not sure I understand how this really really puts Tesla in a dominant position.
- bearjaws 3y agoI thought the NACS charging standard was free to use, and already interoperable with existing protocols given the fact a simple passive adapter converts from the other standard to the NACS one.
- alphabettsy 3y agoI think it’s more about the connectors. Maybe Tesla Chargers continue to be the dominant charger as well, but I hope and think not. Time will tell.
- cduzz 3y agoI suspect it is about the connectors, the charging protocol, and the billing protocol. The experience should be: 1. drive up to charger 2. plug in car 3. car identifies itself 4. charger identifies how the charging process will be funded 5. if there are funds, the charger charges the car and deducts the funds 6. operator unplugs car and drives away. There's a big moat around the supercharger network because it is so big -- but anyone else is welcome to invest billions of dollars and create the same thing.
- kjellsbells 3y agoExactly.