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Imagine it is 2017. As promised, General Motors has the 200-mile-range, sub $US40,000 Bolt pure electric vehicle (EV) for sale1, & Tesla has its Model 3 with similar range & price.
For long distance travel, Tesla has its Supercharger network, free to use for the life of the vehicle2.
GM has — a marketing problem.
Tesla’s Model S & Model 3 are only half of the solution to sustainable personal transportation. The Supercharger network is the other half.
Other fast chargers exist, but their availability is patchy, some are only available to paid subscribers & all are slower than Teslas’s Superchargers.
In 2017, which would you buy, a GM Bolt with a partly pay-to-use, relatively slow, patchwork of chargers, or a Tesla Model 3 with an integrated, free-to-use, Supercharger network?
Other manufacturers with plans for 200-mile-range EVs, in similar time frames, take note.
Tesla has offered to make its Supercharger network available to other manufacturers in the past & is apparently in discussions at the moment.
https://chargedevs.com/newswire/elon-musk-tesla-is-in-talks-with-other-automakers-about-sharing-the-supercharger-network/
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1 “GM 200-mile-range electric vehicle”, http://hhg2tech.blogspot.com.au/2015/01/gm-200-mile-range-electric-vehicle.html
2 “More about the third generation Tesla electric vehicle”, http://hhg2tech.blogspot.com.au/2014/07/more-about-third-generation-tesla.html / Competing fast charging standards electric road trips Tesla Tesla’s vast Supercharger network used by other automakers EV remove roadblock Elon Musk recent press conference Germany Supercharger network walled garden intended available other manufacturers requirements cars take the power output Superchargers pay proportion usage system in talks manufacturers general philosophy Tesla accelerate advent electric cars Electric cars key sustainable future transition away from fossil fuels world’s leader in solar power Germany generates solar energy supply outstrips demand sold to neighboring countries solutions solution more electric cars absorb buffer power stationary storage Power Wall Powerwall /
