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Footballguy
This is such a weird take. Tesla built a massive, reliable charging network on their own dime. They offered to share access and the cost of expansion with other OEMs, but with no takers for years. Now only when the alternatives to the Tesla network have proven to be piles of crap and an impediment to the non-Tesla OEMs selling their EVs, they came back to Tesla to gain access to the charging network. Tesla has given them access with no royalty fee. Yes, Tesla will directly profit from charging those vehicles (and probably more importantly, lower their own costs to provide charging by adding volume to under-utilized charging stations).Not sure why you are being vague. Elon is going to make a boatload opening his chargers to other brands. Not sure if his chargers are union or non-union chargers, but that doesn't matter for him to cash gov't checks.It's similar to what you said. Musk is the pioneer and leader in EV technology. It's hard to embrace one without the other.Of course they are. It’s a ridiculously stupid idea. But that’s not what I said.The current government isn't interested in EVs?I’m not sure the good old government in its current state has any interest in Musk
You and I agree that makes sense. That isn’t what’s happening.
At the same time, they will be further expand & improve the charging network with grant money from the IRA.
But to phrase this to imply that the goal is to suck at the Goverment teet is a gross misrepresentation.
We would need to start a separate thread for the IRA because obviously nobody in here is familiar with it.