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It’s okay — everyone else seems to be dropping the ball, too. And Tesla bought itself a great deal of time while literally every competitor in the US market fumbles the transition to NACS / SAE J3400. I’m cautiously optimistic that TELO’s offering will end up filling the need of people who want minivans. Or maybe Rivian will be inspired to make a smaller and more van-shaped R1S.

(Damn it, CEOs of competitors: don’t wait for the final SAE publication and for the UL to figure out whatever weird paperwork they want and for whatever else you’re waiting for. Tesla launched this thing (apparently mildly different on a protocol level but physically identical) over a decade ago. If you need to, sells cars with two entirely separate charge ports, and make the NACS port modular just in case you screw up and need to replace it. But stop pretending like waiting until 2025 for launch makes sense, and stop telling customers that it won’t be annoying to be stuck using an adapter to charge the car.)