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- Tesla is letting non-Tesla EVs use its Supercharger network for the first time
- Public transportation can save the world — if we let it
- A wild ride through the electric vehicle boom
| Tesla is letting non-Tesla EVs use its Supercharger network for the first time Posted: 01 Nov 2021 08:39 AM PDT  Tesla launched a pilot project in the Netherlands this week in which non-Tesla electric vehicles will be allowed to use its Supercharger network, representing the first time that the automaker is opening up its proprietary charging stations to EVs from other companies. Tesla's Supercharger network is often held up as the best possible example of an EV charging network: fast, reliable, and plentiful. But Tesla's network is also exclusive to Tesla owners, meaning someone driving a Volkswagen or Ford EV wouldn't be able to use it. But that's now starting to change. Tesla CEO Elon Musk has, for years, talked about opening up his company's vast Supercharger network to other electric vehicles. And over this past summer, he started revealing...  |
| Public transportation can save the world — if we let it Posted: 01 Nov 2021 05:52 AM PDT  Caleb Spronk, 35, has a lot of great memories — and some not-so-great ones, too — of riding public transportation in Minneapolis. There were the random conversations with strangers, late-night rides after last call at the bar, and those raucous times packed onto a Metro Transit train with dozens of other Twins fans after a big win at Target Field. Even the time he was slapped in the face by a teenager who didn't take kindly to Spronk's request to stop holding the doors open wasn't enough to taint the overall experience of riding transit in the Twin Cities. Then Covid hit, and Spronk, like many people, stopped using the train. As a software developer, he was privileged to be able to work from home. But when he eventually returns to the...  |
| A wild ride through the electric vehicle boom Posted: 01 Nov 2021 04:24 AM PDT |
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