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Re:China ‘Is the Only One in the Race’ to Make Electric Buse... by benj111 on Monday December 03, 2018 @07:52AM (#18588337)
The smartphone parallel is what I was thinking of. More particularly the transition from dumb phone, to smart phone, Tha basically destroyed most of the incumbents.

I take it you're saying Tesla is Apple. Perhaps, you don't have the network effects and lock in with cars, that you do with phones, and Tesla don't seem to make 'the best' hardware like Apple do, but I don't have a crystal ball either, so I won't argue.

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Re:China ‘Is the Only One in the Race’ to Make Electric Buse... by sumedh on Monday December 03, 2018 @11:51AM (#18590237)
> you don't have the network effects and lock in with cars

Maybe charging stations is the network effect, Tesla has lot stations across the US so you know you wont run out of juice on your trip.

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Re:China ‘Is the Only One in the Race’ to Make Electric Buse... by on_and_off on Monday December 03, 2018 @02:13PM (#18591898)
Are we going to still have branded charging stations going forward ?

It sounds a bit insane to have stations where you can get fuel for a mercedes but not a kia.

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Re:China ‘Is the Only One in the Race’ to Make Electric Buse... by sumedh on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @08:20AM (#18599159)
Agree but to be fair it was Tesla who actually made electric cars popular and desirable and built all the charging stations for their cars so it does not make sense for them to give services to other electric cars unless some law forces them to do so.
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Re:China ‘Is the Only One in the Race’ to Make Electric Buse... by on_and_off on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @09:06PM (#18605202)
It will probably necessitate a legislation for this but once electric cars become dominant it looks like having battery standards will be necessary.
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Re:China ‘Is the Only One in the Race’ to Make Electric Buse... by benj111 on Monday December 03, 2018 @01:46PM (#18591619)
Good point.

I wonder what the situation is in China. My impression in Europe and America everyone but Tesla had standardised on one charger.

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