Comments by "ke6gwf - Ben Blackburn" (@ke6gwf) on "How the EV Industry Is Trying to Fix Its Charging Bottleneck | WSJ" video.

The problem is that Tesla has the largest fleet of EVs and of chargers in the US, and they built this out prior to the rest of the industry deciding to refuse the offer to use the Tesla standard, so it's the new players who created the problem by creating a competing standard. So to tell a private company that they have to spend billions of dollars to modify their private charging network to comply with a new standard is not likely to happen, nor is it proper. Now maybe saying that all new production, and all new charging stations are required to have it is doable, but that won't change much for a long time. It's a lot cheaper and easier to provide dongles to adapt for those who need it. I also won't be surprised if some small EV manufacturers end up Tesla connectors and access to the Supercharger network at some point.
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Tesla tried to do that, but the other companies didn't want to use the Tesla standard, even though it's the best design, so they created a few competing standards specifically designed to NOT be compatible with the Tesla standard plug.
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The sad thing is that the Tesla standard was the first, and is the best, but the other companies didn't want to be compatible with Tesla, and so designed the CCS as a later competing standard. And since people look at it by the number of companies using each, rather than the number of cars using each, people seem to think it's Tesla that should change, when it's really the other way around. Everyone else should standardize on the Tesla connector before they build too many more cars..
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@JJadx the US HAD an industry standard plug design, and it's still the best design on the market, and it's the Tesla plug. But then the other manufacturers got together to talk about connector design, and despite Tesla offering to let them use it as the official standard, the other companies wanted something that wasn't compatible with Tesla, and so came up with a new design, despite most of the EVs and charging stations in the US already using the Tesla design. They were specifically starting a format war to try to hurt Tesla. And now Tesla gets blamed because they don't spend billions of dollars on replacing their Superchargers with an inferior standard, when they are the ones who started the EV revolution, and are using their original connection still. It wasn't difficult for them to make the change in Europe since they had a very small fleet there at the time, but the US would be nearly impossible to convert to CCS now because the fleet and network is so large.
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@iKingRPG actually, Tesla IS the standard plug in the US, by usage! Lol But the newcomers refused to be compatible with Tesla, and so against Tesla's protests they developed a competing standard to try to hurt Tesla.
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@maa1649 the giant difference is that Tesla only had a few chargers in Europe, and not a large fleet, so they could update the chargers and give dongles to a few customers. In the US you have thousands of chargers and hundreds of thousands of cars, all on the Tesla connector. It would create a revolt for all the current US Tesla owners to have to use an adapter to charge at the Tesla Supercharger network. It also doesn't cause an actual issue for the nation, since the cars can use an adapter to charge at CCS sites, and only Tesla cars are allowed to use the private Supercharger network, so it's really a moot point. Now, if Tesla wanted to open Superchargers up to other brands, they could just sell the adapter to them, and maybe start adding a CCS connector to new SC builds, but I don't think you will ever see the Tesla connector go away, because they would basically have to replace all the car ports for free to avoid customer lawsuits.
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@capnthepeafarmer you got it backwards. Tesla developed their connector years ago, long before there WAS an EV industry, and it's still considerd to be the best design for usability, and then when other manufacturers started talking about creating a standard, Tesla offered them the design to use as the industry standard, but no one wanted to admit that Tesla was the technology leader, and so they developed several other competing standards instead. So Tesla still is using the original and best EV charge port standard, with the largest fleet and largest charger network, and converting to a different standard would cost them vast sums of money. But it's the other companies refusing to use the Tesla design that got us to this point.
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@iKingRPG Tesla "refuses" to use the new standard, because it was created specifically because the other manufacturers didn't want to use the standard that Tesla had already been using for years. Tesla offered the Tesla design to the group working on making an industry standard, but even though the Tesla design is better, the other companies didn't want to use anything from Tesla. So they refused to use what was ALREADY the industry standard, since at the time most of the EV fleet was Tesla. Now everyone is upset at Tesla, forgetting that they started first, and it was the rest of the industry that created the problem. Now Tesla would have to spend billions modifying charging stations and cars to a new standard in order to match.
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That's exactly how it works. Each pack is divided into sections that are charged and monitored separately. I think one Tesla design uses groups of 74 cells in series. The Battery Management System then takes the raw power coming in from the charger and feeds it to each group or module to charge each one at the ideal rate and keep them balanced.
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That's what's called a parking garage lol
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A Tesla will gain the same amount of change overnight with an L1 charger as the Volt, probably even more actually since it's more efficient.
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