Comments by "ke6gwf - Ben Blackburn" (@ke6gwf) on "Electric car chargers aren't chargers at all – EVSE Explained" video.

  1.  @christo930  you don't have a clue. The semi I am sitting in right now gets better fuel mileage at 80k pounds than my old pickup truck lol And while I may use 4 times the fuel of the average car on the road at a slightly higher tax (it's cheaper when you are a commercial vehicle than what the sign on the pump says), I weigh 26 times as much,, and road damage is exponential with weight, so no, I don't pay my fair share lol Also, very little power is generated by coal in the US anymore, and it decreases every year. And the places that still have coal fired power plants are also less likely to have a lot of evs. In addition, oil production and gasoline refining takes a lot of electricity as well, so you have to include the emissions from the entire oil pumping, transportation, refining etc infrastructure, as well as the tail pipe emissions when comparing gasoline to EVs.
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  2.  @calaphos  difference is that Tesla WAS the existing standard, and attempted to get others to use their connector design, but the rest of the industry shunned Tesla and went their own way, and now Tesla will have to spend vast sums of money to give all current US owners a free adapter, and change out tens of thousands of super charger cables and connectors, and deal with years worth of owner complaints of having to use an adapter or getting stranded because they lost the adapter.
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  3. The thing that you failed to mention as you repeatedly complained that the world leader in EV innovation hadn't invested millions of dollars in upgrading every existing car to a new charging port, is that Tesla uses a "proprietary" connector, BECAUSE THEY WERE FIRST, and nd they attempted to get the industry to use the same connector as the standard, but certain other car companies hated Tesla, and so refused to use the standard, and developed their own competing standard. By this time however, Tesla had lots of customers using the Tesla connector, and had invested billions into building out their Supercharger network, which is what has made worldwide EV adoption possible, because people see that it works if you build the infrastructure, which no car company wanted to do. So now in order to change to the late comer standard, they would have to invest billions in upgrading the existing US Tesla fleet charge ports, home chargers, destination chargers and Superchargers to the new port, and do it all at once so that no customer with free lifetime charging got stranded at a Supercharger with the wrong port. And if you think that someone with a $100k car is going to be happy having to use an adapter, you are wrong! Also, most Tesla owners don't want the change, because one of the value added benefits of owning a Tesla is that you don't have to compete with all the other makes at a charging station. You are part of a dedicated ecosystem that is expanded as needed as more Tesla's are sold, rather than having to fight for space with cars that don't contribute to the build out of more chargers. It's kind of similar to why it's not likely the US will convert to metric, because it would cost billions of dollars to do, with very little benefit for the average person.
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