One of the environmental regulations we benefit from here in the us, is eu common charger rules! Basically all computer like devices now use usb-c. Thanks.
But it would be even better to be common to essentially every portable device. I’ve seen flashlights that charge over usb-c.
While I was travelling this past weekend, my toothbrush battery died and I didn’t have the proprietary charging base. I sure wish that took usb-c also. Looking online I see a couple but most electronic toothbrushes still use proper chargers
Which brings up: what are you guys seeing, where common charger rules are actually required? Looking across non-computer devices that are not required to be usb-c, are they?
Oh ok. I have no idea what the situation here is for bidirectional charging. It’s not common yet.
And yes, we’re trying to work out common payment systems, but as far as I know, that’s just software. Historically chargers required you to register and pay through the manufacturers app, but that’s unscalable when you have many possible charger manufacturers supporting a common standard.
One of the requirements for US incentives to build out chargers was mandating credit card readers so anyone can drive up and charge without a proprietary app. Of course that was cancelled in our chaotic political situation, so will take more years to happen
Here’s hoping you guys will eventually manage to work it all out, even if that will likely have to await a more, um… rational policy regime.
Rational … hahahahahahahahahhehehe hoo hohoho hah haha hah hah hahahahahah aha haha. Sorry, where were we again?
I think we were having a shared nervous breakdown over the current state of geopolitics, but the hyperventilation made my lose consciousness so I can’t be sure.