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Wow five whole hundred?

If you really think about it, all the EV subsidies need to go the charging infrastructure. Tesla has already proven people want EVs. The real challenge is the charging for people without houses. Right now much of DC Fast charging falls on Electrify America's hands and they really do not care at all as they are just a punishment company for VWs diesel cheating scandal. In my and a lot of other experiences, up to 25% of public chargers are broken and can take months to repair. Only Tesla has decent organization to fix it in just a couple of days. People who buy EVs now are in for a rude awakening.




> Wow five whole hundred?

The best way to think of it is five additional hundred. That's the advantage of using a common standard like CCS. Drivers of CCS cars can make use of all CCS chargers with no need for adapters.

7-Eleven's 250 new charging locations will be added to the existing 4,414 CCS locations in the US and Canada:

https://afdc.energy.gov/fuels/electricity_locations.html


In Europe, Teslas and Tesla chargers are CCS - but limited to Tesla only. I rarely see Teslas on non-tesla fast chargers.


The charge curve for the Tesla Model 3 is better on non-Tesla CCS chargers. It's flatter for longer:

https://insideevs.com/news/507489/tesla-model3-charging-fast...

https://support.fastned.nl/hc/en-gb/articles/360012178313-Ch...




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