Installing a high power charger (supercharger power or greater) is not cheap. Most dealerships who do will be forced to install a new transformer and upgrade their electrical service. For Tesla, they already have a big fleet on the road and with charging for supercharging now, the installation costs will be paid off within a year or two at many locations.
Chargers located only at dealers, which are out of the way and even if Porsche corporate reimburses dealers per use, the chargers are going to sit unused most of the time and as the fleet on the road grows, dealers are going to be reluctant to sink more money into expanding. I don't see this going well.
I think it was in this thread I mentioned Tesla has an opportunity here to make a supercharger adapter they can sell as an aftermarket accessory. The adapter can be registered with Tesla like you have your cell phone registered with your provider and they charge the account per use of the adapter.
I have heard conflicting information about whether the CCS spec allows adapters or not. I saw someone on this forum say the spec prohibits adapters, but I've also seen somewhere else that it doesn't. I haven't taken the time to explore that in any depth. If it is permitted Tesla has an opportunity to make some money off other EV drivers and over the long term they stand a chance of pushing CCS and CHadEMO out of the market. If other EV drivers find they prefer Tesla chargers because they are more convenient, more reliable, and cheaper, they will demand them and car makers will start having to build Tesla supercharging capability into their cars or suffer sales losses from people opting for the car with the better charger.
Eventually the world is going to need to merge fast charging standards. Tesla branded chargers have a lot of advantages. Most of the other brands are franchises and quality can vary all over the map. You also have to sign up for these different networks and each one works differently. Tesla's model is the easiest to use. Even a friend who doesn't know much about EVs can take your car and learn how to find superchargers and how they work in a couple of minutes explanation. (There is a video out there of a woman trying to put gas in a Tesla, but whenever you try to make something foolproof the universe creates a better fool.)
Tesla could force the merge with a bottom up approach with an aftermarket adapter and a mechanism that makes charging other cars just as easy. Instead of the charger information available in the car, they might have to have everything work through the phone app, but it is technically feasible.
Chargers located only at dealers, which are out of the way and even if Porsche corporate reimburses dealers per use, the chargers are going to sit unused most of the time and as the fleet on the road grows, dealers are going to be reluctant to sink more money into expanding. I don't see this going well.
I think it was in this thread I mentioned Tesla has an opportunity here to make a supercharger adapter they can sell as an aftermarket accessory. The adapter can be registered with Tesla like you have your cell phone registered with your provider and they charge the account per use of the adapter.
I have heard conflicting information about whether the CCS spec allows adapters or not. I saw someone on this forum say the spec prohibits adapters, but I've also seen somewhere else that it doesn't. I haven't taken the time to explore that in any depth. If it is permitted Tesla has an opportunity to make some money off other EV drivers and over the long term they stand a chance of pushing CCS and CHadEMO out of the market. If other EV drivers find they prefer Tesla chargers because they are more convenient, more reliable, and cheaper, they will demand them and car makers will start having to build Tesla supercharging capability into their cars or suffer sales losses from people opting for the car with the better charger.
Eventually the world is going to need to merge fast charging standards. Tesla branded chargers have a lot of advantages. Most of the other brands are franchises and quality can vary all over the map. You also have to sign up for these different networks and each one works differently. Tesla's model is the easiest to use. Even a friend who doesn't know much about EVs can take your car and learn how to find superchargers and how they work in a couple of minutes explanation. (There is a video out there of a woman trying to put gas in a Tesla, but whenever you try to make something foolproof the universe creates a better fool.)
Tesla could force the merge with a bottom up approach with an aftermarket adapter and a mechanism that makes charging other cars just as easy. Instead of the charger information available in the car, they might have to have everything work through the phone app, but it is technically feasible.