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Re:Volkswagen, Porsche, and Audi finally say they will use T... by dybber on Wednesday December 20, 2023 @01:48PM (#38712147)
That’s where governmental regulation should kick in and require compatibility, so you aren’t forced to change charger because you either change car or power company. I expect EU to get there at some point.
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Re:Volkswagen, Porsche, and Audi finally say they will use T... by FirmwareBurner on Wednesday December 20, 2023 @04:06PM (#38713649)
> I expect EU to get there at some point.

IMHO, the EU should have done this yester-five-years-ago. It's absolutely baffling they haven't already, considering they're going to outlaw ICE cars in just 6 years time, yet we don't yet have friggin EV charging regulations in place to ensure it always just works for evryone.

I assume politicians are too busy with the inflation/CoL, wars, migration and how to win the upcoming elections in 2024, to worry that we'll be caught wither our pants down on the EV infrastructure side in a few years, because they've been asleep at the wheel.

Mark my words, come 2029, and everyone's gonna freak out, there will be outcry from the voters, and the ICE ban will be postponed for 5 more years so we can get charging infrastructure sorted.

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Re:Volkswagen, Porsche, and Audi finally say they will use T... by DeepSeaTortoise on Friday December 22, 2023 @12:53PM (#38736674)
How do you expect EU lawmakers to require a standard which quite possibly hasn't even been invented yet?

I wouldn't expect any standard becoming a legal requirement until one with open specification becomes available and a significant part of the industry has switched to it.

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Re:Volkswagen, Porsche, and Audi finally say they will use T... by akira2501 on Wednesday December 20, 2023 @03:14PM (#38713043)
It's interesting that governments are more interested in telling you what kind of stove you can buy and seem to have zero interests in telling EV makers what kind of plug they have to use.

It took them the better part of a decade just to bring Apple to the table on USB. I don't have the same faith you do they're going to be able to even partially repeat this success in a much more diverse ecosystem like vehicles.

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