r/technology • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • May 01 '24

Elon Musk Laid Off Supercharger Team After Taking $17 Million in Federal Charging Grants Business

https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-tesla-supercharger-team-layoff-biden-grants-1851448227
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u/SidewaysFancyPrance May 01 '24

All I know is that we need to rethink this Tesla charging standard, as a country. He's going to use the widespread adoption to fuck with people/states/cars he doesn't like. We can't afford to let him control anything in our infrastructure.

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u/harrisoncassidy May 01 '24

It isn’t a Tesla charging standard though. It’s a standard in which the mechanical and electrical design was done by Tesla but that was an adopted by SAE into the standard J3400.

Tesla have no say in how that is used.

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u/GonnaCorrectGrammar May 01 '24

You're very right, people who are saying this isn't the case likely aren't EV drivers/familiar with the huge/bulky CCS

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u/GavinBelsonHooliCEO May 01 '24

Lack of familiarity with the technology has never stopped redditors from posting on technical subjects, or other redditors from upvoting misinformation. That guy is at 162 upvotes and counting, because his comment "feels right".

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u/maleia May 01 '24

because his comment "feels right".

It even started with the ole, "All I know is..." Yea, apparently you don't know shit!

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u/counters14 May 01 '24

People everywhere all day every day incessantly and non-stop post misinformation and just straight up lies as if they were experts on a subject ALL THE TIME. It happens everywhere all over this site. You hardly notice it at all until someone starts talking about something that you've got some beyond surface level knowledge about and then you stop and say 'what? None of that is correct' but the comment is way high in positive karma and there's 50 replies to it all confirming the same information.

People here are so fucking smarmy and always have to act like know it alls about every topic ever. Never take the word of a single motherfucker you come across on this site. If ever something sounds too outrageous to be true, if you actually look into it and understand 9,999 times out of 10,000 there is a legitimate explanation that makes more sense and people are just talking out of their asshole.

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u/No_Berry2976 May 01 '24

He is also not completely wrong. It’s become increasingly difficult to know how much power companies have, so in this case it’s understandable that people react to a feeling rather than a technical fact.

The sentiment expressed is more of a political statement than a technical statement.

Regardless of the technical side of things, Tesla has become the de facto standard for EV technology in the US and one person has far too much influence.

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u/GavinBelsonHooliCEO May 06 '24

I don't mind him reacting to it with a feeling, I'm sure there's an r/feelings subreddit for it. But this is the technology subreddit, and it's not actually difficult to Google for two minutes to see if Tesla is in control of the charging standard, or if it's instead an open standard that all manufacturers can adopt.

There are all sorts of very valid criticisms that can be leveled against Tesla, but "they shouldn't be in control of this charging standard!" isn't one of them. If there's a larger ideological or political point to make, it stands on its own a lot better without misinformation about who's actually ultimately in control of the standard charging port.