The number of buyers in the U.S. considering an electric vehicle purchase in 2024 has fallen from a year ago due to a shortage of affordable cars, inadequate charging infrastructure and ignorance about EV benefits, a study by J.D. Power, opens new tab has shown.
Other factors contributing to waning EV demand in the United States include stubborn inflation, high interest rates and underwhelming growth in model availability, the study said.
When he fired all 500 members of the Tesla supercharger team out of spite, a lot of those common plug agreements got real shakey. That team was responsible for integrating all the different manufacturers into the Tesla ecosystem, which is a much bigger lift then just a plug and some protocols.
Right now they dont even have anyone who knows who was installing what, where. Coordinating integration of a dozen billion dollar car brands into infastructure Tesla now doesnt even understand? We might be waiting till 2026 or never for that to happen.