CCS connectors coming to Tesla Superchargers in the US says Elon Musk

[EEcav]

I use fastcharging infrequently, but I can't imagine a less ideal location to put them than a Walmart. Most Tesla charges near me are at Sheetz, which is ideal, but any late hours fast food type place would work. Especially travelling with a kid, dragging them from the furthest away spot in a massive big box store parking lot to walk around a store where they ask me to buy stuff they can have is the worst. At a sheetz, I can get them a bottle of milk or even a banana. I'd gladly pay extra to charge there than a Walmart.

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[SWO]

There is allot of sarcasm in the replies to this, but I think anything that gets us closer to wide spread adoption of EV's is a great thing, no matter what the motivation was to do it.

At the end of the day Tesla is a business first, and they have done the things that everyone in the industry said could not be done, consumers would not want, and could not be done without bankruptcy. Besides Tesla who else has (willingly) gone out and built a National EV charging infrastructure on there own?

Sure VW was (forced) to build one as part of their reparations fine for diesel gate, but besides Tesla no one else has done anything to build the much needed infrastructure. So with that said, does it make sense that Tesla has leveraged this as a big competitive advantage for years? Of course it does! They spend hundreds of millions or billions build the damn infrastructure on their own. But now that EV adoption is undoubtedly going mainstream, and there is Government money to incentivize the building out of infrastructure, of course it makes sense that Tesla is going to want to leverage that support, while also fulfilling their mission of wide spread EV adoption.

I am very far from being a Tesla fan boy, but I can certainly appreciate and acknowledge when a company is doing things right that ultimately leads to better products, more competition and a better user experience for consumers, and I for one am very happy to hear Tesla moving in this direction even if it takes time to roll out.

I'm Canadian by the way, and despite only mentioning America, I'm still excited by this news.

Agree with your overall point, but let's not pretend that Tesla hasn't soaked up tons of US taxpayer money. It may/may not have been for the chargers themselves, but taxpayers contributed in the overall scheme of things.

 

[heisnuts]

This also assumes there will be space at a Tesla charger.... I have seen so many videos where the stations are completely full and there is a line of Teslas waiting to charge. I would only assume that opening them up to other makes will only compound the problem.

 

[FPLiptak]

There, I fixed it with the "truth editor"

Dead on correct! If it were not for the money from the infrastructure bill (electrification) and the ability to charge a high premium to non-Tesla vehicles it would NEVER happen.

 

[Stang68]

Dead on correct! If it were not for the money from the infrastructure bill (electrification) and the ability to charge a high premium to non-Tesla vehicles it would NEVER happen.

Eh, even so, who cares why they're doing it? We benefit in the end by having a more robust set of options to charge with. Sure they may charge us a premium but wouldn't you like to have the OPTION to use it than not at all? It could be the difference in taking x route versus y route on a long road trip or hell, even getting screwed with a low battery in other area of the US where maybe there isn't a good normal CCS option.

 

[HuntingPudel]

Right after early MMEs get BlueCruise and remote frunk release.

BlueCruise will never come to mine since Ford wouldn’t let me have it, so I guess Elon in blowing smoke.

 

[silverelan]

This also assumes there will be space at a Tesla charger.... I have seen so many videos where the stations are completely full and there is a line of Teslas waiting to charge. I would only assume that opening them up to other makes will only compound the problem.

the Supercharger congestion thing is real at certain locations, especially on the west coast. But CCS stations aren’t immune from it either, particularly at 4-stall EA stations in popular locations (Premium Outlet Mall comes to mind).

 

[silverelan]

Dead on correct! If it were not for the money from the infrastructure bill (electrification) and the ability to charge a high premium to non-Tesla vehicles it would NEVER happen.

And that’s a problem, why exactly?

 

[DaMeatMan]

Not sure what Exxon or Koch are supposed

Agree with your overall point, but let's not pretend that Tesla hasn't soaked up tons of US taxpayer money. It may/may not have been for the chargers themselves, but taxpayers contributed in the overall scheme of things.

Sure, but I'm fairly certain that money was paid back with interest, and we are now enjoying our Mach-E's because a tiny little nothing Silicone Valley startup came around and decided to play in the multi billion dollar per year automotive industry and shook things up such that they were all FORCED to stop building compliance BS vehicles, and start building REAL EV's or get left behind and face bankruptcy and irrelevance.

That was no small feat, and I think many take for granted what Tesla actually did (and is doing) for the industry.

 

[Rabidsquirrel22]

I hope their refit of the supercharger stations comes with longer cables. The current ones look pretty short and don't seem like they would reach the port on a Mach-E or any other EV without a port right on the end of the vehicle.

 

[silverelan]

I hope their refit of the supercharger stations comes with longer cables. The current ones look pretty short and don't seem like they would reach the port on a Mach-E or any other EV without a port right on the end of the vehicle.

a station redesign would be helpful too. Pull-thru stalls like what we see in Europe would be nice.

 

[Kamuelaflyer]

The Shell Recharge DCFC (Formerly Greenlots) are FREE per kWh off peak and FREE per kWh during peak demand.

https://www.plugshare.com/location/219552

Yeah no. Not here.

 

[iam-s-Hon]

I use fastcharging infrequently, but I can't imagine a less ideal location to put them than a Walmart. Most Tesla charges near me are at Sheetz, which is ideal, but any late hours fast food type place would work. Especially travelling with a kid, dragging them from the furthest away spot in a massive big box store parking lot to walk around a store where they ask me to buy stuff they can have is the worst. At a sheetz, I can get them a bottle of milk or even a banana. I'd gladly pay extra to charge there than a Walmart.

Don't your walmarts also sell milk and bananas?

 

[Logal727]

Don't your walmarts also sell milk and bananas?

Yeah, Walmart literally has everything but they are massive and the clientele is well…. Different.

 

[generaltso]

I use fastcharging infrequently, but I can't imagine a less ideal location to put them than a Walmart. Most Tesla charges near me are at Sheetz, which is ideal, but any late hours fast food type place would work. Especially travelling with a kid, dragging them from the furthest away spot in a massive big box store parking lot to walk around a store where they ask me to buy stuff they can have is the worst. At a sheetz, I can get them a bottle of milk or even a banana. I'd gladly pay extra to charge there than a Walmart.

Most of the country has no idea what Sheetz is. I had to Google it.

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