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Charging electric vehicles is important to our current U.S. government. Money is being directed to a national system of charging stations - a way to put a finger on the scales, as it were, because this administration likes EV's and wants to favor them over conventional gas-powered vehicles.  

But there are different technologies among builders of the stations as well as among car manufacturers. Which will the government choose as the standard for the country?

Tesla has the largest private network (over 40,000) and the best charging technology. But a feud exists between the President's administration and Elon Musk on various issues. So . . the government picked an inferior system to be the national standard.

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Never one to stand down from a fight, it looks like Elon won this battle: 

A deal was just announced that both General Motors and Ford are going to make electric vehicles using Tesla's charging technology, as opposed to all others. Together, these three manufacture 70% of American EV's. Rivian followed with the same choice. Hyundai and Toyota are considering it.

Musk said Tesla “is not going to do anything to prefer Tesla [cars charging]” as more rival brands access [Tesla's] Supercharger network. “It will be an even playing field … The most important thing is we advance the electric vehicle revolution.”