A Supercharger in proper use.
A Supercharger in proper use that had a problem.
But what happens when demand begins to plateau at a level much lower and sooner than expected?
This: "Tesla eliminated almost its entire Supercharger organisation, which has built a vast network of public charging stations that virtually every major automaker is in the process of tapping into in the U.S."
Tesla won't be rolling out Supercharger stations as quickly as thought, and that means fewer of the universal chargers that any EV can use. Ford — Tesla's closest American-based rival — already loses money on every EV they make, and with today's news, they'll have an even harder time selling them.
experts say charging could become an important source of income
No doubt that part of the new income is the government issuing more carbon credits to Tesla (not just for making EVs, but providing charging for more EVs). Those are fake credits that Tesla can sell to oil refineries cheaper than the refineries pay carbon taxes (the RIN's that refineries have to pay).
I can't stand that mess, and I'm an EV owner.
All of this criticism of Tesla has escalated exponentially every since Musk has spoken out against the democrats. It’s also not a coincidence that at the same time, China is getting set to put out a “cheap” electric vehicle.
China and the democrat party are purposefully attacking Tesla.
If too many people actually started using these things then the grid would go down.
I thought I read a story that most major auto makers are switching over to the Tesla “nozzle” design connector. It makes sense. Any car can use an unleaded pump. why would the market benefit from dozens of different connector types? Heck even the EU had to force Apple to switch to a universal charger.
But if you are in a Ford or BMW or whatever, the Tesla supercharger may throttle your charging speed. It may be deliberate, or maybe it has to do with technical specs. Tesla knows their cars and software so their chargers are designed to be as efficient as possible. Tesla may not know how another EV car’s design can handle the voltage. It seems like it should be as simple as plugging in a lamp but it’s not. There’s a lot of sensitive equipment, battery designs, and flux capacitors :-) 1.21 Gigawatts!?!
The EV chargers will totally confuse a ton of people and they’ll rip them up by the roots
When you plug you EV into a charger I think it collects all the data everything you have done but where does it go after ?
Elon said never mind and fired everyone on the charging wing oh well sucks to be a battery humper
Tesla Is Pulling Back From EV Charging, and People Are Freaking Out
https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/tesla-is-pulling-back-from-ev-charging-and-people-are-freaking-out-ee8e490c