Comment on Tesla to lay off everyone working on Superchargers, new vehicles
meleecrits@lemmy.world 6 months agoUS needs to regulate chargers.
100%. This should have been addressed years ago, honestly. No one would tolerate VW only being able to gas up at Shell stations due to different nozzles. This is no different.
I don’t get this concern: in the early stages when things were privately funded, there were incompatibilities, but with federal money and new standards, we seem to have a good set of regulations in place to ensure everything works together.
The beginnings of a market are chaos, but this one seems to have shaken that out
Zetta@mander.xyz 6 months ago
Did Tesla not make their charger an open standard that every new ev is shipping with?
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Eventually, yeah.
You999@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
The part about not suing tesla over patent infringement was the true poison pill and why no one took them up on it. Ford has over 79000 patents alone and that’s just one auto manufacture.
AA5B@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I’m not sure that was a valid concern, even if Ford thought that way. This is pretty common in the tech industry, as a form of Mutually Assured Destruction. Everyone has a big portfolio of patents but mainly use them defensively, to prevent all out nuclear war