petit_bateau
Active Member
Is there any smallprint to stop another company subsequently buying up all these charge stations and unifying them into one network, properly maintained etc, ?Thanks for interpreting gub-speak for us.
I would be quite ok with someone other than Tesla expanding the network of fast chargers to the back country. Hopefully sometime before these get installed Tesla will release their CCS -> Tesla adaptor so we can take advantage of it. That said, I am hugely concerned about reliability.
The big joke about all of this is the companies which are going to wind up with these contracts are going to have little to no incentive to actually do so with long term plans to maintain them. So we're very likely to get hundreds of new quickly broken fast charging locations spread across the country which meet the absolute minimum requirements with nobody hanging around to fix them because it's more profitable to install more then it is to fix the crappy ones they installed 2 months prior.
Good chance this will cement the idea that non-Tesla EV charging is a giant turd-bag and make owning non-Tesla EVs even less appealing.
(the faster Tesla USA switches to CCS the better imho)