Comment on Toyota to adopt Tesla charger for North American EV models
cole@lemdro.id 1 year agothat is absolutely not true. most standards AREN’T mandated by law. ANSI is voluntary for example. USB is a standard that isn’t written into law, you get the picture
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
My point is that at any time a manufacturer can just go “Fuck them, I’m creating my own interface” for this reason, the standard isn’t mandated by law! Case in point: Apple
cole@lemdro.id 1 year ago
I guess I don’t understand the problem. Companies use the superior standard. Innovation is good. Look at NACS charging plug, everyone has given up on CCS in the US and signed up to switch. Despite the government mandating CCS in charge stations
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Companies don’t necessarily use the superior standard, maybe you’re too young to have known or you don’t remember the time when each cellphone brand had their own plug and sometimes had a different plug for different phones…
Heck, the car charging ports are a perfect example, the government could have stepped in and imposed a standard in the early days of EVs, instead it had to wait nearly two decades for manufacturers to agree with brands using one of multiple standards for their car and now we’ll end up with charging stations that will be borderline useless in a couple of years because no one will be carrying a bunch of adapters just in case they try to charge somewhere with the wrong plug for their car and if the stations are updated then it’s still a whole lot of waste for the landfills and owners of older cars will need to carry adapters with them so they’re able to keep charging their car.
cole@lemdro.id 1 year ago
While I understand with what you’re saying, I personally believe that regulating standards during the early days of an industry is just asking for trouble.
It often isn’t until later on that we truly understand what we need out of a standard. This can take iterations and different approaches. I think it is too big a risk to potentially be hamstrung with a shitty solution later on