So why did Tesla do that? What advantage did they finally see in making that available to other vehicles?

Well, you know, Tesla has always said its goal is to electrify the entire nationwide fleet of cars.

So, you know, you could argue, oh, it's altruistic.

They also make money.

You know, they're selling access to their charging network, but not all of it.

It's only about I want to say it's less than half, whatever it is.

But Their network is so reliable and so ubiquitous that, you know, other companies were jumping at this chance to have their cars be able to be charged there because it means GM can sell more EVs if they have – if their customers can go to the – um you know to the to the tesla charger and and i was saying that um so rivian is one of the first companies to have a knack style uh port on the uh on their car that's the tesla style port and that's the key once you have The port on the car matching the plug on the charger, it becomes very seamless.

Sounds like it's great from a safety standpoint and you know, why did it take so long to get here?

We know what that's like

... to the point where I had my head down.

I think I might've been trying to do some business on my phone, and it was like bam, and I was like, "Oh, what the hell just happened?" And that was the best part, was that the car said ...

I got on my phone, I got in the car a message, and I got an audio voice that said, "We are aware of an incident.

The car is pulling over.

Please stay buckled in your seat unless it's an emergency while we review the situation." And so here I was on this pretty busy road in LA.

It was like a four or six-lane thoroughfare.

Why do they have to be so measured? Why has it taken so long?