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  • agamemnonymous
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    10 months ago

    I was under the impression that their standard was objectively better than alternatives, so that was a net positive?

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      10 months ago

      There are upsides and downsides to it vs other standards, but the main point was that it’s a closed standard that no one else was allowed to use (until recently), and so Tesla drivers had to go to Tesla charging stations, not the ones run by other companies or individuals

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        10 months ago

        that’s not true, there’s been adapters for Tesla drivers to visit other charging stations for a long time now

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          10 months ago

          The standard for Tesla chargers wasn’t even released until November 2022, so up to that point it wasn’t possible for other people or organizations to build Tesla chargers. Tesla (so far as I can tell from my research) released the first official adapters in mid-late 2022, so until that point it wasn’t possible to use other chargers as a Tesla owner without using aftermarket reverse-engineered adapters.

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        10 months ago

        For sure, not defending the road to get here, just acknowledging that in this case it worked out.