Subject: Re: Well, well...
I'm not following you. All EVs need chargers.
Tesla's push is into Robotaxis, which presumably would still need chargers that would be publicly available as they won't always be able to return to home base.

Robotaxis won't have a driver in the car. So they won't be able to use an "ordinary" charger. They'll need to go to a charger that either has an attendant to plug it in, or a charger that is automated so that it can plug itself in. Or charge wireless. None of the chargers that the federal program will build are likely to have those features.

Plus, I expect that a robotaxi will be returning to a home base at least as frequently as its charging cycle, if not more often. They're not likely to be driving more than 250 miles per day - and even if they were, they probably won't be going an entire day without being cleaned/tidied up at an off-peak time, allowing a quick charge.

Going off his public statements, Musk envisions a world where EV's and chargers will look very different in five years than they do today. So he probably doesn't give much of a rip about whether many new chargers get built in the next couple of years.