Comment on Tesla to lay off everyone working on Superchargers, new vehicles

• frezik@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If anything, it was a major coup by Tesla to make their plug the standard when they have the largest existing charging network for that plug. Now they’re in a position of letting other networks catch up.

  This decision is bafflingly stupid. Is firing people the only way Musk can get hard anymore?

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  • banana_lama@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I didn’t really follow. Because the way it happened was, Tesla can make money from it’s charging stations and other OEMs get a robust charging network.

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    • laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      How robust it’ll be by the time other cars get access is now rather questionable with this firing spree

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      • banana_lama@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It’s a headstart for a robust charging network while other charging station companies build more to catch up

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• JeffKerman1999@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  How many non-tesla nacs charges are there?

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  • banana_lama@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    How many ccs chargers are there compared to nas? That’s the question that matters to GM Ford and other automakers

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    • JeffKerman1999@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      My point is that everyone if nacs is open, it is a monopoly. Tomorrow Tesla decides to ask 100$ per month to access the network and you can’t go somewhere else. In EU the mandatory plug is the same for everyone and Tesla chargers must have ccs2 and Tesla cars must have ccs2…

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      • banana_lama@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I understand that. But building chargers using their ports is an option and will be something that happens. It just answers the customers of other OEMs of whether to charge their cars now. And even if Tesla controls a significant portion of the charging infrastructure now there’ll be others that build chargers with that standard with time. And I’m sure there was some closed door agreement they came up with on pricing

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