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Opening the North American charging standard

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Re: Opening the North American charging standard

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You’re confusing the CCS chargers outside of North America. The ones in NA are absolute trash and Tesla is right to try to kill them off as fast as possible before electric car volume that uses them becomes significant. Tesla is well over half of the electric cars. There’s no reason for them to accommodate the absolute worst standard at their stations.

> You’re confusing the CCS chargers outside of North America. The ones in NA are absolute trash and Tesla is right to try to kill them off as fast as possible before electric car volume that uses them becomes significant. noting that you appear to agree with my assessment that they want to kill off CCS and force all carmakers to use their ports as a means of avoiding having to change their own supercahrgers, otherwis…

>want to kill off CCS and force all carmakers to use their ports as a means of avoiding having to change their own supercahrgers, otherwise, no thanks, I own a new car with the NA CCS charger and it was a significant investment. I'd prefer my car not be "killed off".

Get a grip. They are killing off attaching that stupid charger to all of the infrastructure being built out by both Tesla and everyone else. It’s a laudable goal.

You’ll always be able to carry around an adapter to that sewer pipe sized connector you put in your car for its entire lifetime. It’s not going away and you’ll always be able to charge. Just because you invested in a poor UX we don’t need to saddle the next 50 years of electric cars with trash.

Of course a CCS adapter would be available. It’s money on the table for both chargers and vendors.

Re: Opening the North American charging standard

#192
post #185

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I have no idea where your data is coming from, and doesn't match my tesla or non-tesla experience, but this actually would change nothing even if true.

You see constant EV road trip comparison videos and consistently see how bad EV chargers hamper the non-tesla cars, while the tesla chargers are consistently reliable. Go look around in the news and more.

I don't see either? I also road trip quite often, and have road trip'd in a lot of places of the country in my EV, and again, my experience doesn't match this at all.

Maybe 5-6 years ago, it was true, but it's definitely not true anymore.

I can't even remember the last time i hit a non-working non-tesla charger on a road trip or locally

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