ztanos
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DANandNAN said:I think you should try viewing this from the Big 9 manufacturer's point of view. You see them as trying to stop Nissan. Why couldn't the Big 9 say the same thing? They don't want to have to fight for taxpayer funding because taxpayers are ticked off that their money was foolishly "wasted" in a technology that only one company could use, and goes largely underused, when 9 (probably 12 or more) manufacturers had announced a plan to use the standard.
I think if you look at it from both sides you'll start to see their point. It shouldn't just be the Big 9's point, it should be all of ours. I want to only drive EV from now on, and if Nissan was, in some strange twist of fate, able to block the Big 9 from making cars the EV future is doomed. And, that's what they're attempting to do. They know what the standard is, they know who the big manufacturers are, yet they chose to install a system that was popular in Japan and Europe then tell the U.S. government to install it or else.
If I look at it from the Big 9 point of view (which is slightly skewed because it didn't start as 9) I see that there is a plug in cars already. Two of them actually. Both the Nissan's and the Tesla's. So instead of working with these companies to figure out if their product works and invest in this product and make it more worth while, I think we will slow down progress, confuse everybody and make sure that we are the only ones making money. Starting from scratch costs unwarranted money. Ask Tucker how his auto company ended up. How about John Delorean. While I know that there are better examples and even examples of companies that succeed, I ask you why? Why would you swim through dirt if you saw that there were two streams already dug out a couple of feet away?