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I just looked at the docs and they appear to total 43 pages. I haven't done extensive review, only a skim, but it appears insufficient for manufacturing a matching port or to communicate with an existing Tesla port.

I've been saying for years they should have done this in, like 2014 or 2015. Now is too late, and designed to be a dog in the manger about open charging funding, not actually enable open charging networks.

If Elon had released it as a published open standard, free of limitations for a straightforward one-time fee for the documents sometime before about 2017, maybe it would have been But he didn't, and so it's not.

My house is about 150 years old. When it was built, the US grid couldn't have handled one car. I doubt its current 200 amp service is anything like its first panel, either. The grid will adapt and be upgraded. The same is true of electric vehicle charging sites, both in locations and in stall...

That's J1772 only, not CCS, but presumably Tesla will have to install something similar on their sites. They seem to be maybe considering some kind of "Magic Dock" with a built in adapter.

I believe @AlexUA is part of the EVHub team, and had mentioned that manufacturing was primarily "insourced" in Kyiv, with suppliers in Kharkiv and general war disruption being the main reason production for export had to stop.

And with the CCS network set to supposedly triple or so in the next three years with government funding, that's only going to be more true.

If they're using them for their own delivery fleet, but also for effectively free advertising to road-tripping customers, then it definitely helps it make even more sense: they want delivery vehicles in and out. And IKEA does have food in their stores, which might work within a 30 minute window...

I think it's less about "this is a thing that IKEA customers can use while they're here" and more like "a lot of people might stop to charge on a road-trip, and some might come in to buy some meatballs, and then think maybe they want to pick up a bookcase or something next week when they're home...

Seems like it, which would be in line with EA's typical larger sites.

At the moment, no, it's only DIY. That's because in theory, it's not really a feature they offer right now, it's just a thing some cars can do and some can't. Thus, if yours can't because it's too old or get a nerfed chip during a shortage, that's not Tesla failing, that's just you got unlucky...

I must confess to being confused too, but looking for a place to start with the code being amended, which I think is this: 26 U.S. Code § 30C - Alternative fuel vehicle refueling property credit, the credit is only as a tax write-off for up to 30% capped at $30,000 in the current code if I...

Do you have a reference for which portion of the IRA bill text you're referencing? I initially thought you meant the FHA rules coming out of the infrastructure bill, and don't see now any text about EV charging stations in the IRA. The FHA rule coming out of the infrastructure bill seems to have...

Full chargers are profitable chargers, and profitable chargers encourage installing more, which means a crunch of supply not meeting demand is a path to more chargers being built. As, of course, if $5b in federal money being spent in the next four years to something like triple to quadruple the...

Good thing there's like another 50,000 plus CCS stalls coming in the next few years with the infrastructure bill money...