[yalogin]

This really speaks to the brilliance of Musk and Tesla. Any other company would be happy selling Model 3s and working hard to provide incentives to sell more. Tesla identities that the bottleneck for all these cars is the charging network and simultaneously works on improving that. Really impressed with the way they think.

[clouddrover]

I think it's more about trying to catch up to the CCS charging networks which already have 350 kW chargers (Ionity, Electrify America, EVgo, FastNed). It'd be better if Tesla adopted the CCS standard for all their cars. The European version of the Model 3 has a CCS plug so it's already the case that some Teslas have it.

I can fuel my ICE car at any fueling station. I should be able to charge my electric car at any charging station. Minimizing the number of different charging standards will help achieve that.

[nickik]

How many actual 350kW chargers actually exist? And do any actual cars actually use them?

[clouddrover]

Don't know how many there are, but CCS charging networks have been installing 350 kW chargers for over a year now so I put the figure at "many":

https://fastned.nl/en/blog/post/fastned-onthult-nieuwe-gener...

All cars can use the 350 kW chargers to charge at the car's maximum charge rate (whatever that is for the particular car). The Porsche Taycan has an 800 volt battery system and can make full use of a 350 kW charger. The Taycan will be released at the end of this year. Here are Porsche's specs for the Taycan:

https://newsroom.porsche.com/en/products/porsche-taycan-miss...

[kylec]

I'm not opposed to standardization, but the CCS connector is big and ugly. I'm kind of glad Tesla doesn't use it here in the US.

[abledon]

first world problem : "UGH my charging connector is big and ugly!" hahaha