While charging at a Whole foods in Redwood city a guy walks up and says "I worked on your car." Turns out he was an ex-engineer from Tesla.
I don't think he had seen the JdeMO before but one interesting thing he said was that the reason Toyota didn't include fast charging, and likely why most electric cars that don't have fast charging don't have fast charging, is that these cars are compliance cars. There was no requirement by anyone incentivizing electric cars therefore they didn't include it. I think he mentioned the BMW engineers contemplating it but that they just couldn't be bothered as they didn't have much to gain by including it.
Not a huge news flash but I thought it was interesting to hear it from someone who was involved.
I don't think he had seen the JdeMO before but one interesting thing he said was that the reason Toyota didn't include fast charging, and likely why most electric cars that don't have fast charging don't have fast charging, is that these cars are compliance cars. There was no requirement by anyone incentivizing electric cars therefore they didn't include it. I think he mentioned the BMW engineers contemplating it but that they just couldn't be bothered as they didn't have much to gain by including it.
Not a huge news flash but I thought it was interesting to hear it from someone who was involved.