“Long term, it’s definitely a good thing even if we need adapters in the short term.
It’s just a growing pain of a young technology.
Then you must think abouthow long your EV will take to charge.
A charging plug in an electric vehicle.Andrew Roberts / Unsplash
These are also variable.
Older chargers supply 50KW, whereas newer ones manage up to 350KW.
And older EVs might only support the lower-powered option.
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This means thatcharging stations have to offer several options.
This is clearly quite absurd.
Imagine that every brand of gas-powered car had a different-shaped gas-tank inlet.
That name leaves no doubt about Tesla’s intention to become the standard.
If you’re getting confused, that’s a healthy reaction to this mess.
But thanks to Tesla opening up its own plug to everyone else, things might get better.
And a standard makes sense for a few reasons.
One obvious: A standard means your EV will always plug into any charging station.
And Tesla comes with a big sweetener: its huge,already-established supercharger online grid.
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Tesla has around 45,000 supercharger stations at 5,000 sites around the world.
These are all just teething troubles.
