Summary:
1) users will need to use the Tesla app with a credit card
2) adapters will be available for purchase in North America and available at superchargers
3) you will initiate charging by indicating charging stall in the app
4) Tesla will deal with demand by using dynamic pricing
I predict this will go over like a lead balloon, at least in California where EA is installing everywhere and Tesla superchargers have lines on holiday weekends. Tesla users don't have a path to non Tesla charging. Demand pricing is something everyone hates and Tesla users are going to blame non Tesla drivers. The last thing EV drivers want is yet another charging app. Drivers will count on the availability of an adapter and none will be found.
I am excited by this. Nothing in the 1-4 offends me. I just want to be able to drive and often be near a charger. Driving from wa to ca and then around ca and back to wa and though the ea network is good. More would be better.
There is a stretch of 101 I cannot do as there is 1 charger “missing” in the chain.
Will Tesla be my go to. **** NO. I only charge in the world and mainly do EA with EVgo second then a little greenlots, blink and semens.
If I have a choice of ea or Tesla I will go ea. But ea is the only 150 chargers I have seen. The rest of the level 3s are 50s which is great for topping off while I shop but less than ideal for filling the empty electron void.
If Tesla can produce adapters that will not fry my car the way 3rd party ones can that would be great. I will get one when they come out.
Seems like a win win to me. As EA expands Tesla will loose relevance or have to compete with pricing. All good.
Yay competition.