Because frankly it shouldn't be a car manufacturers job to build charging networks and stations.
We should have ONE standard for ALL cars. Can you imagine going to Shell only with your Buick? Your next car is a Hyundai... sorry mate... this one only gets gas from bp. How about a Mercedes... oh that one only gets gas at dealerships. But if you have a BMW Chevron will be the place to fill you up!
It's preposterous and I hate Tesla for establishing this mess by building their own (technically advanced!) charging network.
Tesla fought against the legacy companies mocking them and most of the press lying about them for ten years. They pulled off a miracle and succeeded in spite of all that and now legacy companies that did nothing want to legislate their own mistake away? Fuck that.
If legacy car companies want to use the network tesla built they can pay them for the privilege.
The irony is I think tesla did offer them access under better terms and they refused (either out of spite or stupidity, I’m not sure).
There’s no way we would have the EV transition we have now (this early) without Tesla. I think there’s no way a government standard would have worked for building this up (one did exist, and I’d argue it didn’t work).
We should have ONE standard for ALL cars. Can you imagine going to Shell only with your Buick? Your next car is a Hyundai... sorry mate... this one only gets gas from bp. How about a Mercedes... oh that one only gets gas at dealerships. But if you have a BMW Chevron will be the place to fill you up!
It's preposterous and I hate Tesla for establishing this mess by building their own (technically advanced!) charging network.