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Europeans typically form alliances, standards and legislation when facing these kind of problems.

EU has EV-CONNECT roadmap with mandate to develop infrastructural system with the interoperability of plugs and vehicles. EU is going to spend €800 million to help set up the infrastructure. It's likely that there will be legislation that mandates that every charging station must sell to everyone else the basic charging. Of course it's possible to offer different charging options for different cars.

In the battery front they have already formed alliances that include big Asian investors and Berkshire Hathaway to build number of huge battery pack and cell factories inside EU.




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