07-08-2023, 05:14 PM
JoeH wrote:
Haven't seen what licensing arrangements Tesla is making or not with other companies. They only opened the connector specs last October and gave it the NACS moniker. Before that it was strictly proprietary.
NACS is on its way to being a formal standard.
What I find perplexing is the view that Tesla was keeping this proprietary. Not true. Tesla made all patents available Jan 31, 2019, and had offered to do well before then,
https://medium.datadriveninvestor.com/te...861e006279
Most people do not understand that Musk would like to NOT make superchargers at all. But the industry did NOT want to make EVs, so they built out their network. They were also the first to need high-speed power recharging, so they made a BETTER connector.