srs5694
Active Member
The article is rather vague. It's not clear:
- Whether the proposed regulations would require standardizing on one plug or whether a station (or stall) could provide multiple plugs for different cars and everything would be fine. If the former, then that would come close to requiring Tesla to adopt CCS1, everybody else to adopt Tesla's connector, or every manufacturer to adopt some new standard.
- If a single plug type would be required, what would that be? My guess is CCS1, since CHAdeMO is all but dead and Tesla's is proprietary. (Yes, I know that Tesla has pledged to open its IP; but as I understand it, they have cross-licensing requirements to do so that most other companies refuse to accept.) Of course, this may be moot, depending on the answer to point #1.
- What type of payment methods would count as an acceptable "standard for payment." I'm guessing that means credit cards, but it could be that plus something else (Bitcoin? Cash? Gold-pressed latinum?), or maybe even some new industry-wide RFID card or app. There might be bureaucratic details requiring particular types of credit card readers or locations for the same (on the pedestal vs. at a separate control kiosk).
- Would other forms of payment (plug-and-charge, network apps/cards, etc.) be acceptable, so long as the "standard" method is also accepted?