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Originally Posted by Irace86.2.0
We don’t even have enough here in California—just 42. The first station opened May 2014 and in six and a half years we have 42. We have around 2k Tesla Supercharger stations and over 16k stalls on top of tens of thousands of Tesla Destination chargers, and there are universal 3rd party fast chargers too.
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Supply and demand, right?
Musk took the right approach by eliminating (or at least minimizing) the infrastructure argument by building it into the cost of the cars and leveraging the fact you could fuel at home easily for most persons to fill the gap.
Traditional manufacturers were expecting the infrastructure to be provided by others, just as oil companies provide their refueling infrastructure now.
Had Tesla, or Toyota for that matter, done the same thing for hydrogen instead of, or in addition to electric, I have to wonder who would be ahead?