Tesla Supercharger PSA

[FloridaMan655321]

VW Beetles up through 1967 had the gas cap in the driver side front under the hood. Up through the late 60’s there was a lot of experimentation with gas cap locations but I think safety and emissions regulations more or less determined today’s locations.
On EVs it can be a vehicle packaging issue with cable harness and power module locations determining location. It will take further standardization of EV components before charge port locations become more uniform. But also short Tesla charging cords will probably disappear within another 5 years.

Yes, but VW didn't own like 90% of the market at that time. Tesla doesn't own 90% now, but they certainly did at one point, and they also were installing superchargers. Then VW (directly/indirectly) started installing superchargers and they did the same type of install that Tesla did. If any one of them would have started doing chargers the way gas stations are installed, then it wouldn't matter where the charge port is.

All this to say, lets say back in the day gas stations were installed the way of superchargers, it would be pretty dumb for some of these ICE manufactures to put the inlet where it is today.....

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