• Khanzarate@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    There are already 2 of them.

    NACS, which is essentially the Tesla charger, was made available to other car manufacturers at no cost already, in 2022. Due to a few reasons, among them the existence of Tesla superchargers already deployed, a lot of companies have adopted this as their charger for newer cars.

    Even if Tesla went down completely, their charger is already open, so nah I don’t expect any changes based on this.

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      6 months ago

      Okay, that makes sense. Was going to ask how proprietary/locked that charger system was as it seems to be the immerging standard.

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        6 months ago

        Yeah I’m kinda surprised they made it open, to be honest. But they did, and its in a way that can’t be retracted, so nothing depends on their continuing good behavior.

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          Its a pretty standard business decision, make it open so everyone uses it and because you manufacture the parts they have to go through you.

          This aint Volvo making their three point seat belt open.

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            6 months ago

            Also, I think Tesla saw the way the wind was blowing on standardization. Eventually, the DOT will enforce a standard plug, and if it’s not YOURS, suddenly you have to either remanufacture the cars you’re making, or otherwise refit them to work with the new standard.

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              6 months ago

              In EU the plug is standard for everyone and Tesla users either have a ccs2 plug on their car or they bring an adapter if their car is older

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          A requirement for them to receive $7.5 billion in government funding for charger construction was for them to allow other cars to charge on their network, which required opening the standard.