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Originally Posted by island911
So the charger port... is that IP that Tesla doesn't let others play with? -- I mean I hear stories of Musk giving away patents (not because they are worthless, but because he's so dreamy)
So what's the deal with the Tesla proprietary charger IP?
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I haven't read anything about the charger profile itself, interesting question.
The way I understand some of the other bits of the story is that the connector / use of the supercharger network was offered to a couple other manufacturers, but they asked for Tesla to modify it certain ways and were then declined with a take it or leave it.
No idea what that was, etc.
Also, there was something around using some of the other standards that were issues at the time for billing or this and that, and up until a couple years ago, Tesla had unlimited supercharging. They just recently sorted out billing, so maybe avoiding all that stuff was an expediency decision.
The J1772 adapter is cheap, and one of the others is mid-priced, but the CCS I think is several hundred dollars. So there may also be some syncing or id logic that needs to be included and translated also. Not quite as easy as wall plugs.