Canary Media: “Tesla Won the EV Charging Race. So Why’s It Gutting Its Supercharger Team?”
RFF Fellow Beia Spiller comments on the opportunities for electric vehicle charging companies in the face of Tesla's decision to reorient itself in the charging market.
This short-term financial logic may be cold comfort to all the companies and public agencies that have wedded their EV charging expansion and reliability improvement plans to Tesla’s core technology. But it may also open up opportunities for charging competitors, said Beia Spiller, director of the transportation program at Resources for the Future, a nonprofit environmental economics research organization.
“I do think there’s a drawback for people expecting Tesla to expand into their areas and to see these chargers deployed through NEVI,” she said. But “the good news is that the standard does exist. Who’s going to come in and use that standard to build these charging stations?”
