Re:Tesla races past $100B in market valuation
by _ph_ on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @12:09PM
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The EU has a standard charging interface, Type 2 (AC) and CCS (DC). The Model 3 has both and most superchargers in Europe got retrofitted with CCS-Plugs. Cars of other manufacturers currently still cannot use it however.
Re:Tesla races past $100B in market valuation
by ssheth on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @12:42PM
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Ionity just came out with a _500%_ increase in cost of charging starting in February.
https://electrek.co/2020/01/17/ionity-increases-electric-veh...
Tesla charges about €0.33/kWh at most in Europe whereas Ionity will be charging €0.79/kWh .. which will make EV charging even more expensive than gas at that point.
This type of crazy price structures are why none of the EV charging networks can get enough traction / users to actually be profitable and build even more stations.
Re:Tesla races past $100B in market valuation
by davidgould on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @06:10PM
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Electrify America is mainly funded by VW as part of the Diesel-gate settlement. So not entirely voluntarily.
At least in the EU I'm 99% sure that the EU will mandate (if it hasn't already) a standard charging interface. Don't know about the US, it's a bit like the Wild West in this regard...