[threeseed]

The charging network also has a lot of risks associated with it. There are 192 other countries in this world all of whom will be looking to charging standards as opposed to relying on a single American company. This means that some time in the near future Tesla will have to go back and retrofit their cars/stations to meet this standard.

Apple's walled garden strategy works because the devices are cheap and relatively throw away. Cars are not.

[greglindahl]

Tesla cars are already compliant with J1772 (a small adapter that comes with every car) and CHAdeMO ($1,000 adapter, coming soon.)

[malandrew]

Few cars cross borders relative to those that are driven exclusively or almost exclusively relative to those that always drive in country. That being the case, so long as I can use an adapter when I take my car into another country with a different standard, I would be mostly fine.

[hippee-lee]

Could that be sold as an upgrade, something akin to the international outlet kits that apple sells for it's laptop chargers?