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NEW YORK (Kyodo) -- Toyota Motor Corp. said Thursday it will adopt Tesla Inc.'s charging standards for its electric vehicles to be sold in North Ameri

NEW YORK (Kyodo) – Toyota Motor Corp. said Thursday it will adopt Tesla Inc.'s charging standards for its electric vehicles to be sold in North Ameri

    • thisisbutanameEnglish
      19•2 years ago

      Because using proprietary standards puts you at the mercy of the technology owner

      • @Kecessa@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        6•2 years ago

        Nah can’t have standards in the USA, let the market solve that and Canada just follows whatever the USA does for these things.

        • JohnEdwaEnglish
          9•2 years ago

          In this case there is, it’s called the North American Charging Standard! Granted, Tesla did name it that way just last year, before it became a standard, but hey, at least it worked out in the end. Probably.

          • @Kecessa@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            -1•2 years ago

            It’s not a standard unless it’s made mandatory by the state, it’s just an agreement between manufacturers and sadly it seems like States always wait too long to establish standards and we end up with incompatible tech that lose support in the long term because of it.

    • @A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3•2 years ago

      because, from what I understnad, only the newest tesla chargers will support non-teslas charging, which is gonna leave a shitton of older chargers as tesla exclusive.

      and overnight renders all the investment and infrastructure thats been built for J1772/CCS Type1/2 completely pointless and wasted effort almost overnight.

      • TheRealKuniEnglish
        2•2 years ago

        and overnight renders all the investment and infrastructure thats been built for J1772/CCS Type1/2 completely pointless and wasted effort almost overnight.

        I could be mistaken, but I don’t think it’s that grim. J1772 will still be good for supporting vehicles and locations that don’t support DC charging. Level 2 will continue to be useful for years since the grid doesn’t support Level 3 charging just anywhere.

        And CCS 1/2 will support NACS with relatively simple adapters as I understand it. Existing DC charging stations can simply replace their CCS 1/2 ends with NACS over time when they would be replaced for maintenance anyway, and perhaps provide adapters in the meantime.

        I highly recommend this video from Technology Connections which changed my mind about this.

        (To be fair, as an owner of a PHEV that can’t use DC charging anyway it doesn’t make much difference to me though.)

    • HildegardeEnglish
      6•2 years ago

      They made one, and they called it the BZ4X. That’s the sort of name that you give a car you don’t want people to buy. And in the event anyone did buy buy it, they made sure the wheels fell off.

      By contrast they literally call their hydrogen car the future, so it’s clear where their priorities lie.

    • @XGM@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5•2 years ago

      They also have the Prius Prime and Rav4 Prime models which have larger battery packs and charge ports compared to their standard hybrid variants. These models don’t support DC fast charging and still operate like standard hybrids so having the larger charge network isn’t as important.

      I’m not sure if the existing Tesla level 2 “chargers” would work in this case but assuming they do it would offer more options.

      • @lostferret@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3•2 years ago

        I have a prius prime! Works perfect for my use case. Everyday driving is full battery with maybe a bit of gas. Big long trips require no extra planning or stops.

        Not for everyone, and i figure will last until EVs are nice and developed with better infrastructure up where i live.

  • Grant_MEnglish
    7•2 years ago

    I’d be careful with making vehicles reliant on a fascist owned charging infrastructure.