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>European Teslas use CCS, but obviously that wasn't an option for the first years of the US supercharger built-out

Why not?

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CCS didn't exist yet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combined_Charging_System

Doing a bit of looking, CCS was standardized in 2011 and first couple charging stations went up in 2012, which is actually similar timing to Tesla's superchargers. But I would assume the Supercharger system was designed in-concert with the Model S and they were well along in development.

If they really wanted to they probably could have got on board in 2011 with the other manufacturers and made it happen. I thought CCS came along a couple of years later.

Add that alongside the UX to reasons I don't want a Tesla.

CCS type 1 was one standard among many. It wasn't until CCS type 2, and many many many years later (my recollection was the EU mandated it's use in 2018 or so?) that it became viable.

Chadamo (IIRC) was the evident standard at the time, and couldn't do supercharging.

CSS type 2 became the EU standard in 2014.

Build Back Better bill, in addition to subsidizing non-tesla chargers everywhere, is trying to standardize the charging tech in the US. [1]

[1] https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/11/29/2021-25...

Tesla needed to create the Supercharger network to ~exist - Unfortunate that it didn't get adopted as standard.

Predates the standard, I think?

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