Car companies like Honda, BMW, and Hyundai are banding together to build an EV-charging network bigger than Tesla’s Supercharger empire::Tesla has been building out its Supercharger network for over a decade. Now legacy car companies are taking a page from Elon Musk’s playbook.
Pretty ridiculous to have multiple standards for this anyway. Imagine if you had to hunt down a gas station that served whatever proprietary fuel you needed.
As someone who used to drive a diesel Jetta, I can confirm it was a pain in the ass.
Also cars that require higher octane can be slightly harder to find.
Even worse are the hydrogen fuel cell ones
Virtually every gas station in the US I’ve seen has 3 types of unleaded non-diesel.
Many high performance engines require higher than the 97 octane that most regular gas stations sell as their Premium. That doesn’t even count any vehicles that run on 85% ethanol.
I guess if you’re buying some exotic car that uses rocket fuel you either know what you’re signing up for or have enough money that you don’t care?
I just hit the button for cheap gas like a poor.
It doesn’t take some sort of import exotic to run best on high octane racing fuel. Your redneck uncle with a mid-80’s Fox body Mustang with the 5.0L V8 very well might have the engine tuned to run that gas.
Certainly it’s intentional, and certainly an enthusiast like that will be willing to put up with the headache of sourcing fuel, but that doesn’t mean it’s not a headache…
Many??
Name ONE mass production car that takes higher than 97 octane in it’s factory configuration.
I could have worded that comment a bit better.
I wasn’t trying to say there were an abundance of cars rolling off production lines taking a non-standard gasoline.
There is a large community of enthusiasts who have modified the engines in their cars to higher compression ratios and have tuned them to take higher octane fuel.
That’s early adopter pain for you. In Europe there is one standard, and in the US, we’re getting there. Yes it’ll be a pain for a while that people with CCS ports will need to use adapters at NACS chargers and vice versa, but we’re settling on the underlying CCS technology being the standard, so it’ll just be a matter of connector. Much better than the three standards we had very recently (add chademo)
well with Ford and GM signing deals with Tesla to use their NACS, and Tesla releasing most to all of any ownership of NACS it could be the standard. It will be interesting to see. Some lobbying could get a new bill passed that allows gov funding for NACS super charger stations.
Given how many manufacturers have declared they’re moving to NACS it doesn’t sound like CCS will be the standard I don’t think ?
Ford, General Motors, Mercedes-Benz, Nissan, Polestar, Rivian, and Volvo have signed up.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Charging_Standard
CCS communication protocol not the port itself. Tesla only used a proprietary communication protocol, now they also support CCS communication protocol. Basically means all you need is an adaptor and everything should be interoperable.
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It’s ridiculous but it’s not quite the same. There are adapter plugs to make all the systems cross-compatible. It means having to carry around adapters though.
Not quite the same because adaptors don’t solve the charge rate problem. Rather than not finding your gasoline at all, it’s more like if you don’t find your preferred station, your gasoline will take 45 minutes to dispense instead of 3. Tesla Roadsters have been abandoned by Tesla and would take 30 hours for a full charge on 120v, worst case.
Many gas stations do not carry the premium that my Acura with 10:1 compression needs.
You mean like diesel?
I don’t ever remember seeing a gas station that sells gasoline but not diesel
Only half the gas stations in the US carry diesel as well.
https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1086549_how-to-find-diesel-fuel-anywhere-in-the-u-s#:~:text=Diesel fuel is only available,diesel vehicles hit the market.
Well I don’t live in the US so that probably explains why I’ve never seen one