BMW, Ford and Honda Form ChargeScape

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19 points·finphil··7 comments

Imagine if current IC cars were like this.

If you have a BMW, Ford and Honda you can only buy Shell gas, if you drive a Tesla only AMCO, and if you drive a Daimler you can only go to Sinclair.

Not because the fuel is any different, not because the cars are any different, but because the nozzle is a different size and none of the gas stations take cash or card, you can only pay via their in house, poorly coded, unreliable apps.

No wonder people are struggling to adopt electric cars. If gas cars were this way I would have stopped driving years ago.

Edited:typo

I think that this isn't specific to charging on the road like Electrify America or the Tesla Supercharger Network, and more about linking EVs into the electric grid to help with energy storage and demand coordination. As I understand it, NACS has already been adopted for the USA as a standard, similar to the nozzles on fueling stations.

> BMW, Ford, and Honda are forming a new US-based company called ChargeScape, focused on optimizing electric vehicle grid services.

Wonderful, can we pay on those chargers by a card? Or is it another app in the charging app hell?

I thought SAAS was the future. /s

I don't think they are talking about on-the-road chargers. This is more about smart chargers for use in residential charging to help with managing demand and supply of power to/from the grid.

> BMW, Ford, and Honda are forming a new US-based company called ChargeScape, focused on optimizing electric vehicle grid services.

Not sure it‘s in the best interest of users, or electric grid operators, to have the control over such a platform

Beta or VHS?

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