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Car companies like Honda, BMW, and Hyundai are banding together to build an EV-charging network bigger than Tesla's Supercharger empire::Tesla has been building out its Supercharger network for over a decade. Now legacy car companies are taking a page from Elon Musk's playbook.

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[–] TheMusicalFruit@lemmy.world 55 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I’m glad they plan on having both major charging plugs on the stations. But, this would be an ok time for some government regulation to dictate a plug format nationwide. Not having to worry about whether you will be able to charge your vehicle at a charging station would make the experience less stressful for new EV owners.

[–] maniajack@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Agreed. Only took the EU a couple decades to tell cellphone manufacturers (Apple) to use a standard plug.

[–] fidodo@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

To be fair, it's been far less than a decade since a non shitty standard plug came out.

[–] orrk@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

to be fair, they did quite well with micro-USB

[–] Lobotomie@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Who uses a charger other than type2/ccs nowadays?

[–] TheMusicalFruit@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

There were some Japanese manufacturers still selling cars with CHAdeMO the last time I checked. But they may have switched over by now, that was a couple years ago.