• meleecrits@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    US needs to regulate chargers.

    100%. This should have been addressed years ago, honestly. No one would tolerate VW only being able to gas up at Shell stations due to different nozzles. This is no different.

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      6 months ago

      Did Tesla not make their charger an open standard that every new ev is shipping with?

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      6 months ago

      I don’t get this concern: in the early stages when things were privately funded, there were incompatibilities, but with federal money and new standards, we seem to have a good set of regulations in place to ensure everything works together.

      The beginnings of a market are chaos, but this one seems to have shaken that out