It will be the worst if 10 years from now every vehicle has a different ’usb’ port while your mileage count goes lower.
Tesla moved first, and that deserves some reward because anyone could have started for decades prior to Tesla.
For asia, it's still undecided between CCS and CHAdeMO
Tesla’s connector is lower weight among other advantages and a simple adaptor allows for Type 2 or CCS charging as well. We are very early into the EV transition to be worrying about backwards compatibility.
CCS just adds two large pins under the Type2 for DC charging. No sense to have those heavy pins when you’re charging from small 3.7kW home wallbox.
Anyway, using slightly larger pins in a home connection is trivial vs the overall advantages. It’s the heavy gage wiring and active cooling that makes fast chargers heavy and that’s where you notice the added bulk and weight of the backwards comparable connector.
https://evcharging.enelx.com/resources/blog/552-ev-charging-...
Here is a picture: https://www.chademo.com/wp2016/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/co...
Even right now the new FastNED or Ionity charging stations that have the latest 300kW chargers are very difficult to install due to the huge power requirements, especially with several of them running in parallel. Tesla Superchargers do actually slow down when multiple cars are charging at once.
So going back to the charging standard - the "default" CCS plug supporting "only" 350kW is going to be sufficient for a long time I think. And if it's not it can be made to support more with very minor changes to the design - after all it's literally just two prongs thar carry the power.
But running the cables is presumably easier when the railway has that convenient strip of land all across the country.
Are there any financial incentives for this? Even if a technical solution exists, are there incentives for EV manufacturers to support it?
This is one of the big things I'm looking for before committing to buying an EV as my next vehicle. Even if Tesla "opens" their charging network, that's not the same as having a single, universal charging standard which anyone can build out themselves. A "USB for cars" would be the ideal solution.
As I doubt the US will adopt GB 20234, my bet would be on CCS.
Second-best is carrying a bunch of adapters in your frunk and having charging on different standards (that you can adapt) available widely.
I think the latter is more likely, given that everyone these days wants to build/own their own platform. As long as you can adapt it and pay to charge, it's a step in the right direction.