• parallax@local106.com
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    1 year ago

    While I am not against it, I am sorry to see that it appears we are creating a de-facto charging monopoly. If Tesla opened the standard for 3rd party stations I would be all on board.

    • Andrew@lemmy.munsell.io
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      1 year ago

      For what it’s worth, all of the technical specifications are open and published by Tesla. I believe they a design patent, but that they’ve committed to open use of it as with their other patents.

    • gk99@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      On the upside, patents have an expiry date. Quite far from now, but if we make it to that, then we’ll just have ourselves a single common standard that everyone is free to use.

      It just sucks in the meantime.