Stellantis: When do you go with the Tesla charger?

[OutpostRam]

Now that Ford, two weeks back, and GM have decided to go with the Tesla chargers, is the RAM REV being designed with a Tesla charge port on the truck? EVGO and the rest are going on life support financially. Waiting to hear from VW and the rest.

 

[OutpostRam]

https://interestingengineering.com/transportation/general-motor-ford-tesla-superchargers

 

[BossHogg]

It was foolish and arrogant of SAE to develop a different recharging port when Telsa's recharging infrastructure was already deployed and rapidly expanding. Even worst, GM, Ford, and the like adopted the SAE specification. This is simply a display of "if it is outside our domain then we have to ignore it". Telsa clearly has the better recharging system.

I've watched many YouTube videos of non-Telsa chargers not working, not working well, and payment issues as well as smartphone connection errors. Issues that do not seem to plague Telsa. There should be one standard across the nation and Telsa is it!

 

[tron67j]

Stellantis and other companies are still looking at this. VOLKSWAGEN doubled down on CCS. It will be interesting to see if any companies decide to just fold shop and stop building charging spots. Others will innovate and are seeing the writing on the wall that they need more top tier chargers that work more often, are simpler to use and pay for, and are in more advantageous locations. Technically, it could be seen as this is just adopting the charging plug and adapters can still allow charging at either type of station. But with the mess out there today, it isn't far fetched that Tesla runs them all out of business.

Meanwhile, Tesla is laughing all the way to the bank and will take billions from this as they become the dominate charging company and can charge whatever they want. Imagine in a couple years we will be reading about people who complain it is more expensive to charge their EVs than it was to fill their ICE tank.

 

[KalboKalbs]

Stick with ICE and it'll never be an issue.

Nor does it matter if smoke from fires has solar farms operating at reduced capacity. Or if the poswer goes off, cuz, capacity is exceeded. Yada, yada...

This ain't rocket science.

 

[Bigskyroadglide]

Hopefully they will all decide on a different standard and this EV craziness will disapate so we can focus on the development of a 700 wheel horsepower out of the box truck