It looks like they are agnostic when it comes to car brands. Neither situation is okay.Įlectrify America and Electrify Canada are starting to offer plug & charge capability in 2021 thanks to their Tritium chargers being upgraded and their back-office software being extended with plug & charge functionality. At some Tesla Supercharging stations in Germany I can charge for free. On the Ionity network, I must use a card from an eMSP (eMobility Service Provider) and pay the full price of € 0.79/kWh. My Renault Zoe is not eligible on the Ionity and Tesla networks for plug & charge and low charging tariffs, because Renault has no ownership of or cooperation with either. To be eligible for plug & charge, you need to have a charging contract with one of the brands that own Ionity. Tritium is in the process of upgrading all of its chargers with the plug & charge functionality. Ionity gets all of its chargers from the Australian company Tritium. I have to deactivate it if I no longer own the car. Fastned regularly sends me an email reminding me that I have plug & charge activated in my car. You should ask for it back when you sell the car. Plug & charge is like giving your car its own credit card. But they are working hard on that problem. My only gripe with Fastned is that they do not have the same coverage density in the rest of Europe as they have in the Netherlands. My Zoe has working plug & charge software, and that makes it great to use Fastned. Fastned is agnostic of the brand, it just tests the BEV. Registered users can test their cars for plug & charge capability. When you sell your Tesla, remember to update the data at Tesla - otherwise you could keep paying for the charging of the new owner.įastned has charging stalls from multiple OEMs if I remember correctly, and has worked hard to have them all be able to understand the CCS plug & charge protocol. (Any Tesla driver that uses plug & charge on Fastned? Please drop us a comment.) Since Tesla uses a proprietary plug & play software solution (which would be logical, since they were the first), it needs to add ISO-15118 to its cars to make those cars compatible with other charging providers. Tesla is making its own chargers and registers its cars with its Supercharging network when they are sold to the customers. Just recently the ISO-15118 plug & charge protocols started to be implemented in some CCS software stacks. The functionality of plug & charge being part of the CCS specifications did not automatically lead to software implementations in cars and chargers. Best is to have this expertise in-house, but most don’t have a software development department capable of doing this. The charging provider must find a software developer to implement the same protocol on all of its chargers. It would be nice to have all the stalls support plug & charge, not only the newer ones, but that is not practical.
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