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[jlousa]

The charging standard isn't all that standard. You can charge a Telsa on a "regular" charger with an adapter but you can't charge a non-Tesla on one of their chargers. Telsa is in town right now heavily pushing their superchargers onto property owners free of charge. They have offered us 20 superchargers free of charge. The catch is those spots must be reserved for only Teslas. Suffice to say that's a deal breaker and would alienate most parkers.
I fully expect it's only a matter of time before something like a USB standard take place where you have two way communication between the charger and car and you start at a low charge and gradually increase voltage and current as allowed by the car. I expect Europe to be the leaders in making this happen.
Even on the battery front, the final voltage being 400V or 800V doesn't really matter to the end consumer, it's how you get to that voltage and the batteries that need to be standardized. Again I see Europe probably being the ones that push ahead with standardization before the US does.