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@borski, if only "should" was a business strategy. Like: "hoping." But I understand and "hope" with you in principle. I am a lawyer with a background in electronics, so I have much skepticism and very little faith. There are just too many variables NOW from too many players, too many stakeholders. and even many more players to come. And EACH one really just wants to sell their own shit - not really willing compromise to make a comprehensive system work. Hence, the Tesla Supercharger system works, even though Musk JUST wants to sell cars, because its a closed system with ONE OS and ONE handshake and ONE port. Maybe the GM BMW 7 Manufactures alliance will work. Maybe. I hope as well. I think those manufactures now see the DCFC debacle, and are driven by the same thing Musk was many years ago: you gotta remove barriers to people buying EVs - and worries about FC on the road for non-Teslas is real.
When I ran PS Audio, we (almost) never had a problem getting our stuff to work correctly, in our test systems. The $64k question was: WTF would the end user plug it into? How how would they use it? I learned to NEVER UNDERESTIMATE the bizarre electronic circuits some other company can use in their equipment. And if your power amp cannot handle THEIR Peloton spin powered, pre-amp using 1930 Western Electric NOS tubes, then WE got the blame. We used 25 loyal beta testers with BIZARRE and/or demanding systems to test and break them. And they did, and we tweaked.
What I was getting at is the electronic complexity of 25 EV brands, 25 slightly different handshakes, 25 very different operating systems, plugging into a dozen different manufactured Level 2 and Level 3 pedestals. I am amazed that plugging MY Lucid into our two CP Level 2 home chargers works perfectly every time. And plugging into the free Level 2s about town works perfectly. And every EA charger I have used (only 4) has worked, albeit at usually 75-90 kwh. Guess I am a glass of water is half full kinda guy.
I recently opened a high power (45w I think) fast smart PD charger by Samsung for my Pixel 7. It was full of IC and SOC chips. Unthinkable15 years ago.