Regulate charger placement

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Won the contract for NACS ? It's an open standard.

This will become a non-issue as the V3 stalls are replaced by the V4 stalls which have a much longer cable to accommodate all EVs. All new Supercharger locations are V4 and they are upgrading V3 locations at a decent rate.

The only reason Tesla opened up charging to other is because they accepted government money. No other reason. All they need to do now is make newly installed chargers have longer cables. I am fairly certain the V4 chargers solve the blocked charger problem.

Perhaps my way of putting was incorrect - Tesla plug new plug for all new car in America 😂

Good to know! There is a V4 near me and come to think of it, the cable is a bit longer.

NEVI funding requires CCS1 plugs. Tesla opening up the standard didn’t earn them any NEVI funding. The magic doc stations are what did that.

ICE manufacturers can't even come to a standard on where to place the fuel filler doors.

All new superchargers have a longer cable. They already decided that if they make 1000 new stations, they'll be installed new, rather than replacing existing. That's better with a fixed amount of resources to just make new, modern 500kw stations rather than try to retro fit and tear down old ones.

I'd like to think they know they can't electrify the world on their own. EVs, any EVs, are good for everyone.

You know what's even worse? Chargers that are angled parking in a parking garage with near zero room to begin with. Whoever built my works parking garage does NOT own an EV. Total Austin Powers turn around scene every time people want to charge.

V2 and V3 stalls aren’t being upgraded. They’re being diluted. Makes no sense to replace stalls when they’re in perfect working order for 50% of customers.

Tesla is in fact upgrading V2/V3 stations to V4. As someone that travels cross country regularly, I have seen it.

Why are the Kia and the lightning parked 1 spot away from each other? It would work perfect side by side

Yes, but Tesla isn’t being paid for it.

I’ve seen at least two older SC near me get their stalls replaced with the newer cabinets with longer cables.

Rear license plate!!

It would help if cars with “correct” (right front and left rear) placement would fill the v3+ stations from the left, and “wrong” (left front and right rear) cars would fill from the right. Unfortunately v2 stations (which other cars cannot use) has trained Tesla owners to skip every other stop, which creates the worst case scenario for other cars. But FWIW most cars doing NACS ports seem to put them on “correct” corners.

You are uninformed

Tesla opened NACS to improve the adoption EVa. Tesla opened careers up to other vehicles to help get government grants for infrastructure development so they could build more superchargers for everyone. I absolutely loved when the network was only for Tesla and it was a huge competitive advantage. Regulation is almost never the right answer. Tesla is building new chargers with pedestals on both sides and longer cables so anyone can charge by pulling in whichever end of the car has the outer on it. It will take a long time, if ever, to upgrade all charges.

Rear left is the absolute fucking worst placement. Pisses me off that I can't use most convenient chargers because of this dumb decision.

They made an announcement that all of Germany was done, so they're doing it but might not come to a site near you anytime soon though.

Most of them are replacing with nacs as default in future models, so you would think they would take the placement into account too.

It came from Elon having a small garage that he had to back into. My garage is the same so I’m happy with that decision.

Chargers on both sides!!!!! Even better, all four corners! But seriously, chargers on both sides would be great, or front and rear. With them hiding charge ports behind lights / reflectors it wouldn't even mess up the body lines.

You could have just said Tesla won the charging market in getting the auto industry to adopt NACS. Eventually NASC ports and cables won’t matter as induction charging becomes the standard (again due to Tesla innovation).

They solved that by allowing drivers to pull up in either direction.

Could also go front passenger side. Thankfully the R2 is putting it where Tesla does. Really we just need much longer cables though.

And not one person ever said to him... "How will people use the roadside chargers that will be critical for EV usage to really take off?"

Apparently he’s never really listened to others.

I agree first for trailering (having to drop the trailer at every charge spot) and second because it forces people to back into chargers, and that's always more risky than pulling in. A lot of people are not safe to back in, and that puts them off of EVs.