The Nation Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Project spawned by the Federal Highway Administration and the Build America, Buy America Act has picked open standards required for federal funding, but articles like this make me wish government would also fund open innovation to create open infrastructure knowledge how & solutions.

The government is funding installations, who in most cases buy and have some role in deploying typically off the shelf solutions. It just seems like it's been such a long sad slow movement, with so many reports of flakey reliability and poor systems. It doesn't feel like the industry is really on a positive treadmill or whatever towards success, towards getting better. Private industry doesn't seem like it's doing a good job serving this infrastructure need. I kind of just want the government to fund some open research & development with public access clauses to figure out how to do the job well and cost effectively. A couple hundred million spent making the industry not suck & have an healthy open baseline for competing atop seems like it's quasi necessary if EV charging is going to ever mature past the stagnancy point it's been stuck at for so long.

That said, it's been 9 months since the FHA passed the rules for how charging systems need to work for federal money. Maybe the industry can self correct, will be incentivized to muster up, and can start meeting reliability requirements specified for funding. Maybe these incentives are enough. But it sure seems like something that feels uncompetitivez that Supercharger alone is playing to win & most of the rest of the industry has accepted meh only sort of works deeply un-integrated barely effective multi-organizational hacking it out.