[incorene]

There are already MANY standard types of connectors that automakers don't use consistently, why add another one to the mix? What does this offer that Deutsch or Weatherpak don't?

XKCD summed this up pretty well: https://xkcd.com/927/

Besides that, I have no respect for Tesla. They can't engineer their way out of a paper bag, they are hostile to both the customer and the rest of the industry, and notoriously so in terms of repairability--why would I believe that now they suddenly care about designing a better, more universal connector? They don't even make repair parts available to the consumer!

For those reasons and many more, the absolute LAST thing I would ever do as an engineer is to buy into a standard set by Tesla, or any other company run by Elon Musk.