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Tesla Inc. (formerly Tesla Motors) is an energy + technology company originally from California and currently headquartered in Austin, Texas.

They produce electric vehicles (with a heavy focus on autonomy), batteries, and energy/solar products for the grid.

Tesla’s mission is to accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable energy.

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New Tesla V4 Supercharger with contactless bank card area and space for a screen (twitter.com)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I guess it was unavoidable. I really liked that you didn’t need that complexity added to the charger but that was possible with a closed ecosystem. Now with so many 3rd parties joining the network, even if those 3rd parties are supposed to automatically work, I would guess Tesla is hedging that a backup payment method is required. Probably a good choice based on the software capability of legacy manufacturers, which can be pretty awful. This will prevent the supercharger for being blamed for 3rd party incompetence, or when the 3rd party has no backend infrastructure.