> Did you think that the Tesla and Supercharger of proprietary connectors for no reason This isn't just entirely for a competitive advantage, although I'm sure

> Did you think that the Tesla and Supercharger of proprietary connectors for no reason This isn't just entirely for a competitive advantage, although I'm sure they plan on licensing as you mention. The fact is none of the existing DC charging standards can handle nearly as much power as Tesla's system can. CHAdeMO can handle up to 62kW (but most are 50kW or less), and some of the new Combo chargers have demonstrated (but not implemented) ~100kW. Superchargers can do 120kW right now, and Tesla has claimed they will up this to 135. As with so much of what they do, the existing state of the art is just so far behind they had no option but to roll their own. Everything else that exists currently is simply too slow for recharging during long distance trips (which nobody else cares about, because no other BEV has anywhere near the range)