Tesla Supercharger charging stations are illegal in Germany

[cawimmer430]

 


Tesla Supercharger charging stations are illegal in Germany

Tesla's charging stations for e-cars violate German calibration law and are therefore illegal in this country. The amount of electricity consumed is not calculated exactly due to the lack of a meter.

Many operators of charging stations for e-cars disregard German calibration law, it was reported Handelsblatt on August 12th. With more than 1,800 Tesla charging stations in Germany, the US company Tesla operates by far the most illegal charging stations, as has now been found in an investigation of the "ICT for Electromobility" project funded by the Federal Ministry of Economics. According to this investigation and also according to the respective device information from the manufacturers, the Tesla stations do not comply with German calibration law Handelsblatt on Thursday.

According to the newspaper, many customers of other e-vehicles come to Hilden near Düsseldorf in addition to Tesla drivers in the "Supercharger" Tesla charging park with 40 charging stations. The company has now opened some of its charging stations for 70 cents per kilowatt hour of electricity to charge vehicles from other electric brands.

However – and therein lies the problem – the charging stations are not calibrated. Accordingly, customers are not charged for the exact amount of electricity when charging, explains this Handelsblatt. Because in Germany, every station, whether in public space or on business and private property, must conform to calibration law and measure the electricity supplied precisely, provided that the electricity is billed by kilowatt hour.

This is not possible with the Tesla charging stations due to the lack of a calibrated meter. Calibration law can only be neglected in the case of flat rates or free electricity, since the customer then knows the costs beforehand.


Link: https://then24.com/2022/08/14/tesla-supercharger-charging-stations-are-illegal-in-germany/

[veeman]

By googling it seems Germany is not going to enforce this and has lengthened the time interval for compliance from end of 2022 to end of 2023.  Very likely they will continue to not enforce this after 2023 if Tesla cannot find a cost effective solution.

Otherwise Germany would be cutting off it's own head if carbon neutrality is the end goal.   

[cawimmer430]

By googling it seems Germany is not going to enforce this and has lengthened the time interval for compliance from end of 2022 to end of 2023.  Very likely they will continue to not enforce this after 2023 if Tesla cannot find a cost effective solution.

Otherwise Germany would be cutting off it's own head if carbon neutrality is the end goal.   

Yes, and one big shot basically admitted that they would "look away" so as to not damage people's perception of EV mobility etc.

[MrH]

By googling it seems Germany is not going to enforce this and has lengthened the time interval for compliance from end of 2022 to end of 2023.  Very likely they will continue to not enforce this after 2023 if Tesla cannot find a cost effective solution.

Otherwise Germany would be cutting off it's own head if carbon neutrality is the end goal.   

Good thing Germans have clean, abundant electricity figured out

[cawimmer430]

Good thing Germans have clean, abundant electricity figured out

The German Green Party is so anti-atomic energy, they are now pushing to use and reactivate older brown coal power plants here due to the self-made energy crisis we are experiencing.

At the same time, these retards want to punish car drivers with another CO2 tax... 

No to safe, clean, cheap and CO2-free nuclear power, yes to dirty, CO2-emitting and 50% thermal efficiency coal power plants. The German Greens are retards. And so are their voters.