Comments by "Scott Franco" (@scottfranco1962) on "Tesla won the plug war - and that's good news!" video.

  1. I think you need to be careful here. I worked for a charger company. There are two main elements of the Tesla plug that are desirable. The first is that it is a better engineering design. The second, and perhaps more important element is that Tesla is a plug and go standard. Ie, you roll up, plug in, and get charged to charge (pun intended) automatically. No screen, no card swipe, etc. The first part is not going to change with other makers adopting the plug. However, that second part could have happened at ANY TIME for the J1772 plug. Its true the J1772 plug was and is braindamaged in that it didn't have a digital communications port built in to the connector, and thus was inherntly incapable of "plug to charge" automatic debt payment. However, that got fixed with PLC or "power line communication" a means of high bandwidth communication with the car. The problem is that Tesla does and will own that automatic payment network. I expect the other car makers to sign on to that network *for a while*. However, for rthe NACS standard to go forward, eventually other networks besides Tesla will have to start up. This happens naturally as, say, chargepoint adapts the NACS standard. The point is, the networks f**ked up the current payment system, even though J1772 is well capable of an automatic payment system, and they *will f**k up the NACS system as well if they are not held accountable.
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