{"id":5310,"date":"2013-08-08T05:45:17","date_gmt":"2013-08-08T11:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5310"},"modified":"2013-08-08T05:45:17","modified_gmt":"2013-08-08T11:45:17","slug":"tesla-fast-charging-and-why-it%e2%80%99s-getting-inconvenient-for-future-ev-drivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5310","title":{"rendered":"Tesla, fast charging and why it\u2019s getting inconvenient for future EV drivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2013\/08\/08\/tesla-fast-charging-and-why-its-getting-inconvenient-for-future-ev-drivers\/\">Adam Lesser<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Similar to Apple\u2019s strategy, Tesla has been creating a closed ecosystem, and in Tesla\u2019s case it\u2019s around electric car charging. And that\u2019s not so great for the electric car drivers of the future.<\/p>\n<p>Now that\u2019s all well and good for Tesla, but what about the entire EV landscape? Tesla\u2019s supercharger utilizes a proprietary plug, and although the stations its planning to build will have four to six EV spots servicing any vehicle, four will be dedicated to Tesla. Imagine going to the gas station, and four of the pumps were reserved for BMWs. When the automakers get a say in the powering of their EVs, they are choosing to create closed systems that exclude their competition.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Lesser: Similar to Apple\u2019s strategy, Tesla has been creating a closed ecosystem, and in Tesla\u2019s case it\u2019s around electric car charging. And that\u2019s not so great for the electric car drivers of the future. Now that\u2019s all well and good for Tesla, but what about the entire EV landscape? Tesla\u2019s supercharger utilizes a proprietary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5310"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}