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Toyota to adopt Tesla charger for North American EV models (mainichi.jp)
submitted 11 months 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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[–] robocall@lemmy.world 30 points 11 months ago (23 children)

Makes sense. Why not use infrastructure that's already available?

[–] thisisbutaname@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] Actaeon@artemis.camp 60 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It was made an open standard about a year ago

[–] thisisbutaname@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 11 months ago

Didn't know that, that's fine then

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