Keep in mind that Teslas will be able to go to other charging stations as well; It doubles the amount of stations for Tesla owners. In addition, Tesla and others will also be adding to their networks even faster now. Tesla (and EA and everyone else that qualifies) will be getting huge subsidies for making their stations universal. So it will only get better as time goes on.
I don't think they will throttle down the speed as that will just keep the stations occupied longer; I do think they will have a higher price for non-Teslas. I also don't think the $0.99/mo will be the monthly rate.
yeah that might become an issue as I think it will either have to use a retractable cabling or he will need to have to charging spots at each parking spot. 1 for front of the vehicle and 1 for the back. As mentioned right now all the Tesla Chargers are for the charge port on the back driver panel and most of all other EVs have them on the Front of the vehicle.
I like your level of Elon conspiracy!
Slowing down charging will also force Tesla owners to wait longer for stalls to open up.
Not if the tesla users have dedicated stalls. The non tesla stalls will have adaptors, slower speeds, connection issues, app errors, poor customer service, poor maintenance, and long lines.
As a tesla customer I've grown accustomed to the way he operates and he's become quite predictable. He wants the government money to build chargers so he has to open them to all, but he's definitely going to do the bare minimum to say legally his chargers are open to all, while making it much worse for non teslas than for teslas, encouraging you to switch to his brand of car.
You really distrust, Elon 🤣 The intention is to open up all stalls to all EV users. They are not going to go back and install non-Tesla stalls. They also are not going to overtly sabotage the user experience. That would get them banned from the program and possibly require them to pay back subsidies. No the easiest thing for them to do would to be just continue what they are doing now, but for everyone.
Tesla doesn't do that for Europe, I don't know why they would do it in NA either. Tesla would want the cars in and out as fast as possible.
As far is the initial implementation for North America, Tesla will add a couple charging stalls for new installations (usually 12 or more). There will be a built-in CCS adapter but otherwise will also work with Tesla vehicles. There are no plans to convert the tens of thousands of existing supercharger stalls.
Yes! Mark my words, we are going to see stations charging more for slow-charging vehicles. 20 cents / kw if you are charging at 150 kw or more, 30 cents if you are at 100 - 150, 40 cents if you are at under 100. Stall utilization is the name of the game in DCFC economics. Get people the heck off the chargers as quickly as possible.
The reason elon is doing this is to get gov subsidies for NEW chargers. To get the subsidy, it needs to allow all types of cars. But knowing elon, these new chargers will do the legal minumum for non teslas, which will mean long lines and inferior service for them, while making sure the experiece for teslas is much smoother and faster.
There you go, someone who has real information! 😎
