Tesla went hard building charging stations. They picked their own connection style, made a lot of patents open, and built a ton of chargers.
No one else did.
Now Tesla is winning the EV charging format conflict.
Sounds like the way things should go. Hopefully, their no-dealership model wins as well.
P.S. I guess I’m not against dealerships. I’m against haggling. I want click online, get a price, and be done. I don’t want to come in and get a price. I don’t want to go back and forth, agree on a price, to later discover fifty different ways dealerships describe their tacked on fees. I’m not against dealers making profit, but I want it laid out, clearly, up front in an email. If car A costs $Xk or $X+1k, I want that in writing!
And I can’t get that unless I buy a car from a company with a direct sales model. So down with dealerships.
‘Read an article that said tacked-of-fees work for retailers. Good on them. I’ll go to other retailers.