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This is certainly nice PR for the future of EV growth. Reality of these things is they take much longer to turn into reality, and more important than even building a charging infrastructure/network, is MAINTAINING IT. This is evident with how Tesla maintains their charging network vs Electrify America. I’m all for universal connector standards, at least here in North America, and I’m all for expanding EV adoption. For daily commutes, living with an EV is fairly straightforward as almost everyone (not everyone) has access to L2 chargers for home charging. Road trips are a whole different animal and EV’s are nowhere near comparable to ICE. Even if every charging station was reliably functioning, it’s nowhere near the millions of gas stations across the US, particularly in rural areas. If they built half a million reliable EV charging stations, then we can debate. 30k charging stations is nice addition, but it’s a drop in the bucket compared to fueling station infrastructure for ICE. Road tripping, particularly in the vast rural areas of the US, is still owned by ICE for the forseable future.