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Tesla to lay off everyone working on Superchargers, new vehicles (arstechnica.com)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Tesla owns over 50% of the electric car chargers in the US. It makes more sense for other companies to be compatible with the largest network than for the largest network to make itself work with everything else.

Whether you like Musk or Tesla or not, this just made more sense for the sake of adoption.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Sure, that is a valid argument. But it doesn't change the fact that the government was successfully lobbied into changing what their grant money could be used for, seemingly overnight. When the grants were announced, CCS was said to become the standard. Due to that, many car companies stuck with CCS, and no doubt that some consumers (myself included) bought a CCS vehicle expecting it to be further developed.

That's all I was trying to say - I'm more miffed regarding the lobbying than the connector itself.