And soon they will be owned by oil companies. That’s the point. These large oil companies have so much money they just will buy the companies that run the networks. Throw a dart at any station on chargepoint.com and it could be owned by big oil.
Does that matter? My objection to big oil, such as it is, is the carbon emission/fossil fuel stuff. I don't have a problem with the corporate structures inherently.
Unless the artificially keep prices high so as to keep gasoline as a cheaper fuel.
Unless they artificially keep prices high. Full stop. It's not about gasoline, it's about control over energy in any form, concentrated in a small number of hands.
Lot harder to concentrate when solar power is inherently distributed.
They've not managed to do that with gas. I expect that solar will be much the same.
Good luck buying up Tesla.
There’s plenty of other charging station companies they could buy and corner Tesla.