Depends actually. If Tesla shut down, that would disrupt a lot of fast charging. The charger handshakes with the car which allows it to auto bill to your card stored on Tesla’s servers. For non-Teslas, they have to use the app to start charging.
Plenty of ways to charge an EV without Tesla’s superchargers. Sure, superchargers were their biggest selling point before dipshit fired the whole supercharger team, but it’s not like any Tesla is bricked purely from lack of Tesla’s charging network.
Just pointing out that “filling it up” is not so simple always. On a road trip, you generally rely on DC Fast Chargers since an L2 charger would take hours.
If Tesla went belly up and took the charging network with it, EVs would be much less useful for road trips.
My non-Tesla EV would only be affected by way of more Teslas at non-Tesla chargers. Which, to your point, would be a pretty significant impact to road trips.
But neither I nor most people take road trips more than a few times a year, so even in this extreme case, the impact wouldn’t be relevant ~95% of the time.
And to the original topic, this wouldn’t brick any EVs or anything like that.
Depends actually. If Tesla shut down, that would disrupt a lot of fast charging. The charger handshakes with the car which allows it to auto bill to your card stored on Tesla’s servers. For non-Teslas, they have to use the app to start charging.
Plenty of ways to charge an EV without Tesla’s superchargers. Sure, superchargers were their biggest selling point before dipshit fired the whole supercharger team, but it’s not like any Tesla is bricked purely from lack of Tesla’s charging network.
Just pointing out that “filling it up” is not so simple always. On a road trip, you generally rely on DC Fast Chargers since an L2 charger would take hours.
If Tesla went belly up and took the charging network with it, EVs would be much less useful for road trips.
My non-Tesla EV would only be affected by way of more Teslas at non-Tesla chargers. Which, to your point, would be a pretty significant impact to road trips.
But neither I nor most people take road trips more than a few times a year, so even in this extreme case, the impact wouldn’t be relevant ~95% of the time.
And to the original topic, this wouldn’t brick any EVs or anything like that.