[dboreham]

Wait...what? Someone built a bunch of charging stations all over the place and they only work with one vendor's cars!?!?

[namlem]

Other car companies are free to make their cars compatible, since Tesla released the patents. It's just that no one has yet.

[bjl]

Note that Tesla has not offered an explicit license for those patents, so there's no guarantee that companies using the patents won't get sued. It was a pure PR stunt.