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  • @[email protected]
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    11 months ago

    Imagine if you bought Ford and could only fill it up at Ford endorsed gas stations.

      • @[email protected]
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        411 months ago

        Don’t worry, they’d have to geoblock the tank lid, and they don’t know where your car is. Oh, wait…

    • Flying Squid
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      1511 months ago

      Tesla did that essentially with their proprietary charging. Then they essentially strongarmed other companies into adopting their standard.

      • DacoTaco
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        1011 months ago

        Only in the us afaik. In the eu this didnt fly. We use menekes type 2 and ccs2, including all teslas.

      • @[email protected]
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        411 months ago

        I was under the impression that their standard was objectively better than alternatives, so that was a net positive?

        • Jojo
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          11 months ago

          There are upsides and downsides to it vs other standards, but the main point was that it’s a closed standard that no one else was allowed to use (until recently), and so Tesla drivers had to go to Tesla charging stations, not the ones run by other companies or individuals

          • @[email protected]
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            110 months ago

            that’s not true, there’s been adapters for Tesla drivers to visit other charging stations for a long time now

            • Jojo
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              110 months ago

              The standard for Tesla chargers wasn’t even released until November 2022, so up to that point it wasn’t possible for other people or organizations to build Tesla chargers. Tesla (so far as I can tell from my research) released the first official adapters in mid-late 2022, so until that point it wasn’t possible to use other chargers as a Tesla owner without using aftermarket reverse-engineered adapters.

          • @[email protected]
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            011 months ago

            For sure, not defending the road to get here, just acknowledging that in this case it worked out.

      • ElPussyKangaroo
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        211 months ago

        I hate to side with ElMo, but didn’t that happen because they kick started the EV car wave? And apparently their solution was also the better option, or something to that effect.

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      411 months ago

      I’m vomiting at the idea because while it sounds silly, I have to remember kuerig convinced everyone that coffee pods were a better alternative then tried to lock it down so only official kuerig pods worked.