Chung Jae-hoon, the president of Hyundai Motor Company, discussed the company’s plans concerning electric vehicle charging during the Goodwood Festival in West Sussex, England. Following the unveiling of the first high-performance electric vehicle, the Ioniq 5 N, under Hyundai's core electrifica
Hyundai Motors Announces Intent to Share Tesla Charging Infrastructure::Chung Jae-hoon, the president of Hyundai Motor Company, discussed the company’s plans concerning electric vehicle charging during the Goodwood Festival in West Sussex, England. Following the unveiling of the first high-performance electric vehicle, the Ioniq 5 N, under Hyundai's core electrifica
“should we use an open standard for this new plug?”
“No, no. Make sure we as a society are beholden to one company forever until about the end of the year .”
Fixed that for you.
First, the signally protocol used for all non-Tesla cars at superchargers CCS, which is already an open standard. Tesla cars made after 2022 can also talk CCS to all non-Tesla chargers (with a cheap retrofit for many pre-2022 Tesla cars).
Yeah, they’ll be beholden to Tesla in order to use Superchargers, just like they’re beholden to Electrify America to use their chargers, but the connector and its underlying technology are open. If Tesla decides to switch all their superchargers to some new future non-NACS connector, that would be stupid, but the other companies still wouldn’t be beholden to them, they just wouldn’t be able to use those chargers
Hasn't this always been the plan for Tesla? Being the infrastructure and battery technology, to make themselves indispensable to an EV world? The cars I always felt were a sideshow in achieving this.
Totally agree that this cannot be the way forward with this. Guess I'll wait for the EU "standardise the charge" pitch.
Hasn't this always been the plan for Tesla? Being the infrastructure and battery technology, to make themselves indispensable to an EV world? The cars I always felt were a sideshow in achieving this.
well they already own the charger market share. Now everyone can pay and use their supercharger network, that's just more revenue.
Other automakers don't even have a charging network... I suspect Tesla will continue building out their charger network and probably even end up making more money on charging than on selling cars, while all the other automakers just kinda sit back and hope someone else picks up the slack.
Their market share depends on their manufacturing capacity.
Yeah, they can not win it but I guess they hold enough patents and are ahead of reserch for now. If they play it right, they will remain significant player, but also easy to disappear.