> So now, once again, the USA adopts a "standard" shunned by the rest of the world.
Maybe I could have the wrong read, but this sentence structure:
> the USA… shunned by the rest of the world.
Does two things: it implies there's a standard "the rest of the world" has agreed on (there isn't, and there never is, it's one of the things that makes the world big) and it signals you as probably one of the two types of people which might be unintentional on your part, but still:
1. A European complaining about America.
2. An American complaining that we're not doing things the European way.
There are other possibilities, but those are the two most probable reads.
As far as charging standards go, we haven't settled on a standard because there's only one charging network worth a damn in the country, and until Tesla started making agreements with other automakers to sign them on, it was exclusively for use by their customers which isn't great if you're Ford or GM or another startup EV manufacturer and trying to get people to buy your electric cars instead. Right now it looks like (in my opinion, this is not settled) we'll probably settle on NACS, but as opposed to what? CCS? 1 or 2? CHAdeMO/ChaoJi? Is there a technical issue you have with NACS specifically or is it just that it's not a de jure standard somewhere else?
That's a lot of cogitating on my motives. I'm just an American who hates dealing with non-standard "standards." I hated it with SCSI's connector fiasco. I hated how Sony undermined Firewire (oh, and AES/EBU before that, and kept pushing their MemoryStick long after the world had settled on SD), and that USB failed to learn from the idiocy of SCSI's connector fiasco. And don't even get me started on Lightning.
And there are just plain shitty standards, like ATSC's. Anyway, for adults who have lived through plenty of these standards blunders, it's even more irritating to see them not headed off by the only entity that has a chance of doing so in this instance: the federal government.
The last I heard, CCS 2 was set to be widely adopted. And sure enough, any charging connection that doesn't support DC is absurd. So yes you can argue it's good the government didn't act sooner and mandate one of those earlier short-sighted ones.
Eh, whatever. As long as something dominates the continent I guess it's OK. It's not as if I'm likely to take my car to Europe or Africa on a lark.
Fair enough, Dongletown sucks. It’s a common enough thing on this forum that was the optics as I saw it, but additional context helps.
As far as CCS2 goes, or actually CCS Types I and II, there’s already a split between continents and regions on that one; and then there’s CHAdeMO and GB/T which are in active use. CCS aspired to be a global standard but it was never going to get there, not on this planet. There’s also another standard called MCS in development.
