In my opinion, Tesla should have properly opened up their connector years ago. It's a miracle that now that they have, other manufacturers are migrating. I suppose Tesla's supercharger network was just too tantalizing.
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Yeah, I really think the network is the reason. In the USA, I hope we can incentivize buildout of infrastructure with some legislative changes, because it's taking forever. There should be way more L2 than there currently is; it's so easy to install (I can't speak to elsewhere in the world). The NACS standard shouldn't affect this much. I could change my home cable easily enough if my next car was NACS for L2.
For L3, having NACS as a "standard" with a large baseline of chargers already is going to be a huge help. Hopefully companies get envious of Tesla and start actually competing. One can dream...
As for the connector, I do think it's a little nicer to hold and line up, though frankly the J1772 form factor is... fine. I never cared much either way; I just wanted a standard thing.
There wasn't a "standard" because even though there was a standard (J1772), Tesla had to go and have a Not Invented Here, and mess us up.
I suppose the only upside is that, eventually, we'll have a slightly better connector than J1772, but only at the cost of putting standardization behind by 10 years.
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