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Toyota to adopt Tesla charger for North American EV models (mainichi.jp)
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NEW YORK (Kyodo) -- Toyota Motor Corp. said Thursday it will adopt Tesla Inc.'s charging standards for its electric vehicles to be sold in North Ameri

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[–] -1 points 2 years ago (1 child)

It often isn't until later on that we truly understand what we need out of a standard

Guess we shouldn't be using the Tesla standard then because it's what's been used by them since the release of the model S in 2012... You know, the early days of wide adoption of EV cars?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    EDIT: the guy I'm replying to edited his comment. Originally he asked something along the lines of "why didn't they mandate the tesla plug"

    so the government should've mandated a closed protocol that wasn't a standard?

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The government should have sat down with manufacturers, telling them "Better come to the table cuz that's where we'll decide what the legal standard will be." and come up with a solution instead of letting manufacturers do whatever they want until 8 standards came to be.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    well, we'll have to agree to disagree on that. I think it's easy to say that with hindsight, but you don't know where standards are needed when things are first getting going

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