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  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Tesla did that essentially with their proprietary charging. Then they essentially strongarmed other companies into adopting their standard.

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      10 months ago

      Only in the us afaik. In the eu this didnt fly. We use menekes type 2 and ccs2, including all teslas.

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        10 months ago

        There are upsides and downsides to it vs other standards, but the main point was that it’s a closed standard that no one else was allowed to use (until recently), and so Tesla drivers had to go to Tesla charging stations, not the ones run by other companies or individuals

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          10 months ago

          that’s not true, there’s been adapters for Tesla drivers to visit other charging stations for a long time now

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            10 months ago

            The standard for Tesla chargers wasn’t even released until November 2022, so up to that point it wasn’t possible for other people or organizations to build Tesla chargers. Tesla (so far as I can tell from my research) released the first official adapters in mid-late 2022, so until that point it wasn’t possible to use other chargers as a Tesla owner without using aftermarket reverse-engineered adapters.

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      10 months ago

      I hate to side with ElMo, but didn’t that happen because they kick started the EV car wave? And apparently their solution was also the better option, or something to that effect.