I wonder what term will replace tweet... it worked so well. Oh I tweeted this last night...
People aren't going to say I X'd that last night. Sure you can say I posted something on X or I dunno, but I don't think they'll ever get something as good as tweeting on twitter.
The CCS system for the US was finalized well after Tesla had a lot of cars on the road, and is pretty inferior to Tesla's NACS and CCS2. It's not a direct comparison to what happened in the EU.
Maybe they were worried about forcing an inferior standard too soon, and wanted to see how the market would play out?
Do you want to be in a lawsuit over standards with, at the time your only 100% EV car manufacturer, and only manufacturer that even thinks its possible to do 100% EVs, over an inferior standard that early on?
The GOP talks nonstop about not doing stuff like that, and the DEMs would be fighting against the only auto manufacturer company fighting climate change and pushing things forward.
The longer the other OEMs dragged their feet, and the more cars Tesla pumped out using NACS probably made the fight harder and harder to have.
Maybe if they did though, they could have pushed Telsa to open theirs much sooner as well though?
It looks like it's happening on its own now as everyone now moves to NACS but ya, it would have been nicer sooner.
Edit: maybe even just talking about forcing a standard could have convinced Tesla to do this sooner as well?
Ya, the locking mechanisms would be a big part of it.
I've had people unplug my car to charge theirs when I use an adapter out in the world. It's impacted me trips before :(
The adapter can't be stolen as that's locked to the car, but in this case you wouldn't be able to unplug the car now.
Headline is a bit sensational, but having a single charger that can charge any EV at home without an adapter is really helpful and could convince tesla and non tesla owners, as well as businesses that provide charging for customers to consider it over other options.
Edit: I often see a mix of Tesla and JS1772 chargers at l2 spots, now they could all be just this.
I still charge my car off 120v as it's all we need, but our land lord was considering getting a wall charger at one point. Even though I drive a Tesla, they were still thinking of installing a non Tesla one so it would work for any other EV we purchased, or new tenants in the future. This is a welcome change.
These LFP batteries just keep getting better and better and I love it. Give it more time and they'll even get the wh/kg up and these will replace all but the longest range or weight sensitive applications.
The main battle against the robots at earth, but one of the other ones as well was really good.
The earth one was exceptionally long for a space cgi battle.
Whatever you think of the show, it gave us one of, if not the most, epic CGI space battle. It was so damn long and intricate.
Please find me a post by Elon where he supports people jailbreaking his cars to get features for free that isn't about a white hacker hacking competition to expose bugs.
We don't pay for phone updates, but there is software out there that's a buy a version and get all updates to that version, but not a new version.
E.g buy 5.0, get 5.1, 5.2, 5.2.1, 5.3 etc but not 6.0
Usually that kinda software stays on a version for years.
My Jetbrains IDE is a subscription fee like that. Yearly fee gets you all major version updates, but you keep it as is if you stop paying.
Phone updates don't come for the life of the ~~car~~ phone either.
Would you pay a yearly fee to continue getting updates for your now no longer being updated but perfectly fine otherwise phone? I would.
Was just thinking on this more and had a laugh at someone saying this out loud
Them: "Did you see my X last night, i ripped them a new one!"
Friend: "You did what to your ex last night? Does your wife know!?"