Biden announced new rules today to standardize America's EV-charging experience:
Today, the Biden administration announced new standards for expanding the national electric vehicle (EV) charging network in order to encourage widespread EV adoption by providing a "predictable" user experience. All charging stations will soon be required to adopt the same connector types, payment methods, and data privacy assurances. These new standards have pushed Tesla, for the first time, to make part of its proprietary charging network compatible with non-Tesla EVs in the United States.
Joining other industry stakeholders in supporting Biden's goal to build 500,000 EV chargers nationwide by 2030, Tesla has pledged to make "at least 7,500 chargers available for all EVs by the end of 2024," Biden's announcement said. This will include 3,500 new and existing 250 kW "superchargers" along highway corridors and 4,000 slower "destination chargers" at hotels and restaurants in urban and rural areas.
[...] Opening its charging network to all EVs could position Tesla as the clear industry leader across America, analysts told Reuters, but adopting the CCS standard could also diminish some consumers' incentive to buy Teslas. Tesla drivers have enjoyed exclusive access to the nation's largest and fastest network of "superchargers," but soon any EV owner can enjoy that same benefit without buying a Tesla.
Despite this seeming risk to its EV sales, Tesla CEO Elon Musk seemed "very open" to helping Biden meet his ambitious EV charging goals, White House Infrastructure Coordinator Mitch Landrieu said at a press briefing today. With so much funding available to competitors, Tesla otherwise might have risked a rival creating a larger charging network, thus losing Tesla drivers' incentive of exclusivity either way.
[...] Tesla isn't the only company that Biden is relying on to expand the country's EV charging network through the Department of Transportation's (DOT) National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) program.
More than a dozen companies have committed to adding "more than 100,000 public chargers available for all EVs." Those companies include automakers like General Motors, Mercedes-Benz, Volvo, and Ford, as well as other EV industry stakeholders, including Hertz, BP, Pilot Company, EVgo, TravelCenters of America, ChargePoint, Electrify America, and Starbucks. General Motors and Francis Energy made some of the largest commitments. The former promised to install "up to 40,000 public Level 2 EV chargers in local communities by 2026" and the latter to expand into 40 states by 2023 and then install "50,000 EV charging ports by 2030." Other companies and networks made commitments to regularly maintain new charging stations.
While the NEVI program helps Biden achieve his mission of electrifying "the great American road trip," Biden's larger goal is to aggressively ramp up domestic manufacturing of EVs and EV chargers. To that end, Biden's plan requires that all federally funded EV chargers must be built in the US. [...]
[...] Not everyone expects that Biden's plan will result in America suddenly gaining a dependable supply chain, though. Reuters reported that the European Union and Mexico have voiced concerns that the US is discriminating against foreign EV makers, and states told DOT that the global demand for EV chargers is already straining the supply chain—making it hard to speed up charger manufacturing while meeting new made-in-America standards. Tesla is worried that the "pace and scale of deployment" of Biden's plan is too ambitious and could create a "shortfall in the number of compliant charging stations."
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Monday February 20, @02:51AM (3 children)
I suggest we look at the telco's and their nationwide cellular coverage. You can expect 16 competing brands to have multiple chargers at the same venue. While, fifteen miles away, you won't find ANY chargers, at any price! Out here in Flyover country, you'll charge your vehicle at home, or at work, or you won't charge. Unless you live real close to an Interstate highway, or a major US highway, forget it.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 20, @04:17AM (1 child)
I'm hoping for alcohol and/or hydrocarbon fuel cell electric cars.
(Score: 2) by aafcac on Tuesday February 21, @05:27AM
Possibly, but I'd assume that the 15 minutes isn't a complete charge, it's probably in the 20 percent to 80 percent range before trickle charging would begin. And depending upon how the battery is put together, it might just be limited by heat and the actual charger.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday February 20, @04:06PM
Argumentum ad YouTubem: From my observations, it appears that the prevailing practice is to carry a trunk full of adapters in order to charge your car at any charger. But not necessarily at the fastest possible charging rate. Each adapter has about a one foot long cable that is almost as thick as your wrist. That makes it easier to hook all this together in a rainstorm.
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(Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday February 20, @04:01PM
Which one? Tesla's proprietary connector? CCS or whatever mishmash of different non-Tesla connectors?
And the, what about the EU? Didn't the EU already mandate that all rechargeable devices must charge via USB-C connectors?
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