This article suggests they could build a station with 10 chargers and have 5 of them Tesla proprietary and 5 that offer CCS and still qualify for the grant money.
I agree. Especially when the CCS to Tesla Adapter comes. Tesla owners would still be at an advantage to use the Tesla proprietary connectors and have the ability to charge using CCS.
They could also dual cable some like EA does.
If only *some* of the chargers have CCS cables, the Tesla owners could game the system by pulling into the CCS spots first.
I’d be interested to see if some states give Tesla tax breaks if they retrofit existing stations to be 50/50 CCS/Tesla chargers, in which case adding CCS cables would probably be the easiest.
Yes, which would be consistent with what I have learned about Tesla owners over the last 10 months. I've seen plenty of Teslas blocking (aka "ICEing") L2 and even CCS chargers. I even watched a "Tesla bro" (he was wearing his tight Tesla T-shirt at the time) pull into a CCS spot and start to walk away. At first he tried to lie his way through it, and then he copped an attitude and insisted I had to "ask him nicely" to move.
Not surprising at all. Tesla has been selling J1772 destination chargers to commercial customers for years. They started selling them directly to consumers more recently.
