Comments by "ke6gwf - Ben Blackburn" (@ke6gwf) on "The tech which can charge an electric car in 10 minutes" video.

  1. I really don't like your revisionist history, talking about all the other brands and models currently using CCS, and ignoring the fact that for most of the existence of Tesla, they WERE the defacto industry standard, simply because they had almost no competition. Not to mention that the BetaChademo standard was competing against the VHSccs until just recently, so getting bitter against Tesla is well misplaced. Also you left out that Tesla attempted to get the other manufacturers to sign on and use the much superior Tesla standard, but the other manufacturers wanted to pretend that Tesla didn't exist, and so they created a second design. Plus, Tesla built out most of its supercharger network before CCS really took off or there WERE any other options for Tesla drivers. So while you have valid concerns about the situation for Tesla drivers, the way you go about bitching about the industry leader is pretty petty. Remember that without Tesla having built out such a large proprietary network, we wouldn't HAVE a robust EV market today, because Tesla literally had to create the infrastructure before people would buy the cars, and so the giant proprietary network was not an option, but the only way to do it. Now that the company is stable with plenty of cash flow, and they are able to install chargers faster than they can build cars, and there are just beginning to be 3rd party alternative charging networks that actually work, they are starting to move towards making it so Tesla's can at other networks easily, and also opening up the Supercharger network to other brands, but only as they are able to expand the network so that the Tesla owners don't have to wait for a line of Ioniqs at a Tesla facility. If you were a Tesla owner, you would be happy that you don't have to deal with all the other EVs on the road charging at "your" station, kind of like how only Costco members can get gas at Costco. As I see Tesla building chargers in every shopping center and restaurant district and random farm fields along the freeway in the middle of nowhere, some with hundreds of stalls, just a few miles down the road from others with hundreds of stalls, I see them getting to the point where they can start opening up to other brands, and just continue rolling them out as fast as they can get permits. It's kind of like how they aren't rushing to introduce more car models until they get production ramped on the existing models and have headroom to take on a new challenge, they had to get their network expansion ramped up fast enough to be able to handle outside customers, rather than just serving the Tesla fleet. And since all the early Model S cars that were built before CCS even was spawned from the pits of committee hell are STILL on the road, they couldn't just stop installing new Tesla connecters, because they would have had to retrofit all the older cars, as well as all the existing chargers, home chargers, etc. You treat it like it's saying that Apple should sell new phones with USB C, when really it's more like Apple having to upgrade the last 5 years of phones to work with USB C, and send out new chargers and battery packs to all their customers. Oh, and most Tesla owners would not WANT to "downgrade" from Tesla to CCS! Lol So I look forward to the adapter coming out to give Teslas charging options, and a slow rollout of CCS capabilities at Supercharger stations to allow 3rd party charging. Probably only a few stalls with CCS, and the rest are still reserved for the only currently large fleet of EVs in the US! (I have seen just 2 Ioniq5s in California so far, one of them today. I like the looks of it as much as I want to wear your brown tweed jacket.... Smirk)
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