Toyota to adopt Tesla charger for North American EV models
NEW YORK (Kyodo) -- Toyota Motor Corp. said Thursday it will adopt Tesla Inc.'s charging standards for its electric vehicles to be sold in North Ameri
Wahots, 
Fuuuck, please keep everything on one standard. It’s going to suck to have multiple plugs at every station, particularly since the official standard can scale like crazy :/
Grant_M, 
I’d be careful with making vehicles reliant on a fascist owned charging infrastructure.
nbafantest, The plug spec has been opened up, so we should see all infrastructure switch to this. Not just Tesla’s superchargers. This is a good thing.
Grant_M, My default is zero trust in muskovite. Hopefully all potential loopholes are closed!
Dozzi92, 
Wasn’t that an early Tesla thing too, opening up tech so others could use it? I remember being like this is how the future will be.
They got me good.
pastaq, Yeah. I bought a Tesla because they “opened their patents” www.tesla.com/blog/all-our-patent-are-belong-you
This company has changed quite a bit from what it used to be. :(
vagrantprodigy, That’s disappointing. I can’t wait to see how Musk attempts to screw with everyone once all major companies are using his “open” standard.
Grant_M, Exactly.
akilou, Does Toyota have any electic models? I thought they were still stuck between hybrids and hydrogen.
altima_neo, 
They have some plug in hybrids, too
CmdrShepard, They released a compliance car (BZ4x) built with Subaru. From what I’ve read it sucks and essentially just performs the same function as the PT Cruiser and Chevy HHR did back in the day. I’m sure this’ll be retained for the future when they have a proper lineup of EVs though.
nbafantest, They have plug in hybrids.
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