I've even written a post on this blog about them. They used to be free, but they're not free anymore except for a small number of early Model S and X owners, but that's not the math I referred to in the title of this post.
The math I referred to in the title of this post, I just learned today. It's the number of non-Tesla electric vehicles which can recharge at Tesla Superchargers: 0. Number of Tesla vehicles which can re-charge at non-Tesla stations without something called a J-1772 adapter: also 0. Price of a J-1772 adapter: not well-publicized, so I'm assuming it's high. Number of adapters which let non-Tesla vehicles charge at Tesla Superchargers? 0. Number of non-Tesla electric vehicles which can't charge at non-Tesla charging stations? As far as I can tell: 0, because: number of carmakers who decided not to used charging units which are compatible with every non-Tesla supercharger in the world is: 1. Tesla.
Chance that Tesla could've unintentionally made their superchargers incompatible with everybody's else cars and the cars incompatible with everybody else's superchargers? Zero. Part of me prepared to believe the Tesla party line that hostility to them from other companies is 100% attributable to evil oil-company greed? Plummeting fast.
Remind you of Apple? Yeah, me too! And not just the billionaire owner and the creepy cult-like devotion of the fans to him, finding that he can do no wrong, only genius-type things, but also: the equipment that doesn't work with the rest of the equipment on the planet, only with the equipment made by the genius cult company. Tesla Supercharger = Apple Store: a place for white people with more money than brains to feel superior to the rest of the planet -- for a substantial fee. (Non-whites are of course welcome either place, but they gotta pay as much as everybody else.)
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