Comment by MBCook
I don’t know.
They could have given away their connector 10 years ago and saved everyone a huge and expensive mess. But that’s in their interest. So instead dozens of companies wasted huge amounts of monies installing a bunch of cables that all have to be replaced.
Or the government could have seen that they had a better option and simply taken it and said it was the standard. But of course that wouldn’t be the American way.
So we suffered through a giant mess instead wasting time and money.
Tesla chose not to fix this until the damage was done and their benefit was small enough to be worth giving up.
> They could have given away their connector 10 years ago
And nobody would have adopted it. They had to make it into a de facto standard first, and did. Now, anyone who adopts it gets an infrastructure boost.
> Tesla chose not to fix this until the damage was done
What damage? Massive EV adoption? Retrofits are not difficult, and adapters are cheap.