Car companies like Honda, BMW, and Hyundai are banding together to build an EV-charging network bigger than Tesla's Supercharger empire

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• Toribor@corndog.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Pretty ridiculous to have multiple standards for this anyway. Imagine if you had to hunt down a gas station that served whatever proprietary fuel you needed.

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  • jballs@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    As someone who used to drive a diesel Jetta, I can confirm it was a pain in the ass.

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    • reallynotnick@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Also cars that require higher octane can be slightly harder to find.

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  • TenderfootGungi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Many gas stations do not carry the premium that my Acura with 10:1 compression needs.

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• navi@lemmy.tespia.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’ll believe it when I see it.

  Even in Norway (home to a fuck load of EVs) I am using Tesla chargers for my non-Tesla on vacation.

  I tried to use a hand full of other brands but they required apps and accounts that required a Norwegian citizen ID or Norwegian phone number to sign up.

  Absolutely insane that it’s not just a tap to pay on the terminal.

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  • MasterCelebrator@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Hm that seems like Problem specific to norway. I have one app with which i have access to over 250k chargers all over europe. I just checked the charging point map and indeed, in norway there are very few i can use.

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    • FinalRemix@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Does the app just find the chargers, or do you have to have the app to use the chargers?

      I’m legit asking. I don’t have a car new enough to have OnStar, let alone keyless ignition.

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• TheMusicalFruit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m glad they plan on having both major charging plugs on the stations. But, this would be an ok time for some government regulation to dictate a plug format nationwide. Not having to worry about whether you will be able to charge your vehicle at a charging station would make the experience less stressful for new EV owners.

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  • Lobotomie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Who uses a charger other than type2/ccs nowadays?

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    • TheMusicalFruit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      There were some Japanese manufacturers still selling cars with CHAdeMO the last time I checked. But they may have switched over by now, that was a couple years ago.

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• FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Cool, as long as everyone settles on something decent.

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  • TenderfootGungi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The industry is coalescing around Tesla’s plug, which they put up for public adoption as the North American Charging Standard.

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    • reallynotnick@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Also I want to be able to pay via a credit card and not deal with half a dozen different apps and we are all golden.

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• Hazdaz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Seems like this should have happened like 2 years ago.

  The industry depended on VW’s network and as usual VW shows us how incompetent they are.

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• june@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  you know elon is gonna post an Invincible meme about this

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  • Nodreams11@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They will still be using the Tesla plug, so he already won not having to change out the existing network plugs.

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    • reallynotnick@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The cords are too short for most non-Tesla vehicles and I don’t believe all stations can speak CCS, so they will still have to do some updates

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• foggy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Ah, the Hulu strat.

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