> now other car companies are dealing with the fallout of depending on shitty 3rd party charging networks No. Ionity is a joint venture by a number of car comp

> now other car companies are dealing with the fallout of depending on shitty 3rd party charging networks No. Ionity is a joint venture by a number of car companies and has deployed many 350 kW chargers throughout Europe: https://ionity.eu/en/ionity/who-we-are https://ionity.eu/en/ionity/who-we-are You seem to be looking at this from a warped North American perspective. You need to understand that Europe is years ahead of North America in charging infrastructure. Tesla's V3 chargers kind of suck compared to chargers from manufacturers like Alpitronic or Kempower. Here are 400 kW Alpitronic (on Fastned) and Kempower (on Shell) chargers. Faster speeds, longer cables, higher voltage than Tesla offers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4ZWN_-a2j4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4ZWN_-a2j4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qR2M5W6saAk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qR2M5W6saAk Tesla's V4 chargers have the potential to be better than the V3 chargers, but so far they really suck for 800 volt cars: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEJ2KtzMeh8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEJ2KtzMeh8