Tesla’s charging stations left other manufacturers in the dust

Re:Tesla’s charging stations left other manufacturers in the... by fiftyfifty on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @12:40PM (#25931198)

I'm really shocked that other manufacturers haven't invested in more infrastructure. Toyota and Honda pushed hydrogen fuel cell vehicles for years, they could have easily accelerated adoption of the tech by investing in refueling infrastructure. Now all that money they invested in fuel cell cars looks to be wasted as they both are playing catchup with battery electric vehicles, mostly because of Tesla.

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Re:Tesla’s charging stations left other manufacturers in the... by toomuchtodo on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @12:42PM (#25931224)

Legacy automakers never thought they were going to have to build and sell EVs at scale until Tesla forced their hand (and also demonstrated to governments that it was time to schedule new combustion vehicle sales bans), hence why they didn't invest in their own charging networks (which cost Tesla over half a billion dollars and counting [1] [2]).

[1] https://supercharge.info/changes [2] https://supercharge.info/map

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Re:Tesla’s charging stations left other manufacturers in the... by Animats on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @01:00PM (#25931472)

Toyota and Honda pushed hydrogen fuel cell vehicles for years

Toyota wanted someone else to pay for the infrastructure.

California has 27 hydrogen stations up today.[1] There's not much interest in building more.

[1] https://m.cafcp.org/

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Re:Tesla’s charging stations left other manufacturers in the... by Hypx on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @08:34PM (#25936953)

https://www.slashgear.com/navistar-and-gm-reveal-hydrogen-tr...

Some of you guys are seriously stuck in the 2010s. Hydrogen is coming a big way and the old talking points are outdated.

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Re:Tesla’s charging stations left other manufacturers in the... by theshrike79 on Thursday January 28, 2021 @02:07AM (#25939056)

There are more Teslas in space than there are Hydrogen charging stations in Finland.

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Re:Tesla’s charging stations left other manufacturers in the... by cycrutchfield on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @09:26PM (#25937337)

Any year now

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Re:Tesla’s charging stations left other manufacturers in the... by Hypx on Thursday January 28, 2021 @06:08AM (#25940509)

You're stuck in the past. We're seeing an exponential growth in hydrogen stations.

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Re:Tesla’s charging stations left other manufacturers in the... by cycrutchfield on Saturday January 30, 2021 @05:50PM (#25973831)

From 1 to 2?

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