Tesla’s plans to open its Supercharger network to accommodate other electric vehicles (EVs) is facing delays due to the unexpected layoffs within Tesla’s Supercharging team. Originally, Tesla had announced electric vehicles (EVs) from General Motors […]
It’s in the first paragraph
Those are delays for Tesla Superchargers, not delays in choosing a national standard. That’s already done. We haven’t fucked up anything. NACS is just a connector…
So yeah, we fucked up
My first message was that we should have chosen a standard and nationalized the infrastructure, the industry chose a standard, the infrastructure is private and now things are fucked because of the company that invented the standard.
That particular infrastructure is private. EV infrastructure is not private. There’s nothing stopping any other private or public entity from expanding that infrastructure using the common open standard that has been adopted. Nothing of value has been sacrificed. Progress has merely been delayed.