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Toyota to adopt Tesla charger for North American EV models (mainichi.jp)

submitted 1 year ago by stopthatgirl7@kbin.social to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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

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[–] cole@lemdro.id 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

While I understand with what you're saying, I personally believe that regulating standards during the early days of an industry is just asking for trouble.

It often isn't until later on that we truly understand what we need out of a standard. This can take iterations and different approaches. I think it is too big a risk to potentially be hamstrung with a shitty solution later on

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It often isn't until later on that we truly understand what we need out of a standard

Guess we shouldn't be using the Tesla standard then because it's what's been used by them since the release of the model S in 2012... You know, the early days of wide adoption of EV cars?

[–] cole@lemdro.id 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

EDIT: the guy I'm replying to edited his comment. Originally he asked something along the lines of "why didn't they mandate the tesla plug"

so the government should've mandated a closed protocol that wasn't a standard?

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The government should have sat down with manufacturers, telling them "Better come to the table cuz that's where we'll decide what the legal standard will be." and come up with a solution instead of letting manufacturers do whatever they want until 8 standards came to be.

[–] cole@lemdro.id 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

well, we'll have to agree to disagree on that. I think it's easy to say that with hindsight, but you don't know where standards are needed when things are first getting going

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not as if it was unclear that EV cars were coming though.

[–] cole@lemdro.id 1 points 1 year ago

It was, actually. Many people are still skeptical of that even. Some people still think hydrogen is the future