Alex said:
Yes, it's important for all electric cars to be successful, but it's not Tesla's responsibility to do that. They are looking out for their own customers and want to promote their newer cars, not anyone else's.
That sounds like the most likely reasoning behind the incompatibility -- and it's a negligent, stupid, harmful perspective.
Right now the public is extremely fearful of EVs for many reasons, including perceived lack of charging infrastructure and perceived lack of quick charging standards. This results is a VERY small EV market, and moves like this solidify that constraint rather than lifting it. A small startup like Tesla, frankly, cannot survive with its product exclusively within that market - regardless of whether they grab 1% or 80% of it (and their price restricts them to WAY below 80% of it anyway). The only way Tesla survives is if the EV market expands as a whole. They had an opportunity to help that here, and instead they got aggressively competitive with other EVs??
Idiocy, pure and simple. They reduce their chances of long-term survival for a short-term advantage against the few other EVs on the market. Good decision there guys. :roll: