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Originally Posted by Irace86.2.0
You may not be familiar with the charging experience at other chargerd, but it is often not seemless.
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I'm familiar, and a lot of has to do with driving force to make the entire process overcomplicated, even in the case of Tesla. There really isn't as much need for all the communication with the pump. It's a nice to have feature but isn't critical. The whole process should be no harder than charging your cellphone, and payment should be done through methods that have worked for, and people are familar with, for several decades.
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Originally Posted by Irace86.2.0
Musk has done just that by creating an adapter. He made the Magic Dock. Now they are making longer cables to reach different sides of cars for other brands. I don’t know of anyone else building their own network. VW might be the only one. I think Ford is smart to switch to Tesla’s standard and making an adapter on their side to work with other fast chargers.
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Yet, he could have just sold the adapter rather than complicating it by insisting on installing it at the pump which means it will be a slow process.
I agree what Ford has done is a good thing for them.
As far as Tesla building an infrastructure, they had to do it to sell cars. But, if we hold Musk at his word that he wants to electrify driving regardless of who you buy the car from, then my thought is he should spin the network off as its on independent entity and force it to be "brand neutral" moving forward. That said, I applaud Tesla for recognizing the need and taking the bull by the horns.
As far as VW, they didn't really want to build a network, they were pretty much forced into it by their settlement over Dieselgate.