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Originally Posted by Luminor513
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.
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Here's the other little tidbit of truth here that most folks are missing... It makes almost no sense to compare the uptime of CCS 1 stations versus Tesla, because that world is going away fast.
There are like 4x more Teslas on the road in the US compared to all the other CCS 1 cars combined. (It is probably more than that.) DCFC charging stations cost a lot to maintain - CCS 1 is a stupidly expensive design, and the cords alone cost a fortune compared to NACS cords. They have a very high fixed cost and a tiny consumer base, so they are unprofitable.
As soon as the existing networks switch to NACS/J3400, their addressable market massively multiplies. They can all become profitable almost overnight. And then, they have the revenue stream to support the maintenance costs.
This is a bit of a chicken-and-egg thing for the non-Tesla DCFC networks. They built them out with hopes that many CCS cars will come, nobody has manufactured in significant volume. As they move to NACS/J3400, their financial outlooks transform.