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I can’t see that happening, how would a random member of staff now that. Tesla are notorious for dropping bomshell announcements via a press release, not telling service engineers first. Have you seen how empty some supercharger locations are, we were at Amesbury around 11.30am on a Monday in September, 16 Superchargers and never more than 3 being used, at one point we were the only ones there.
A member of staff, I’m guessing that’s someone there to fix a charger or was it just a Tesla driver annoyed that others are using the superchargers 🤔
Of course Elon does work in strange ways but I’d be calling 🐂💩 on that story 😂
Don’t shoot the messenger guys the guy walked out of the showroom with Tesla uniform on I’m just passing the info on 🙏🏼 that it don’t happen but according to him from the 1st nov there stopping it whether that’s just Cardiff my area or across the uk
More likely they are closing a particular location, they always said they’d monitor usage on ones open to all. But given the way Tesla work they’re more likely to add more chargers to a location if it gets busy.
Don’t shoot the messenger guys the guy walked out of the showroom with Tesla uniform on I’m just passing the info on 🙏🏼 that it don’t happen but according to him from the 1st nov there stopping it whether that’s just Cardiff my area or across the uk
It’s not you but this story has appeared a few times on EV forums, probably started by disgruntled Tesla owners annoyed at having to share the chargers.
A lot of Tesla chargers have just increased their prices, imagine if they were to lose all the extra income from non Teslas… plus didn’t this all start because the EU told them it’d need to be open to all and payable by contactless 🤔
Absolute rubbish. The Tesla app still shows the available chargers for non-tesla cars.
What are Tesla gonna do, remove the CCS plugs and retrofit Tesla points??
Not gonna happen. Some not too bright people will believe all sorts of nonsense on social media instead of mainstream news channels.
Enough with the not to bright comment Ioniq really not needed all I’m doing is passing on information I received whilst charging my car this morning from a Tesla member of staff after telling me he then approached a Volvo ex30 and a Cupra born who were also charging
I wonder if it could be that Tesla are reviewing which stations will offer universal charging. Perhaps the one you were charging at will move to Tesla only as at 1st November.
Tesla have reversed, the “charge for all” at a london hub, can’t remember which one, so it can be done if, the supercharger gets too busy, with non tesla cars.
They have also, had a significant price increase on “open to all” Tesla chargers, price of the monthly subscription remains unchanged
Enough with the not to bright comment Ioniq really not needed g
That was not aimed at you Theo2017, not at all.
It is the generations we have now that just use social media as a source.
Logically, why would Tesla not make money charging other cars? Financially, charging will earn more than selling Tesla cars.
Even though the cost of using tesla chargers has recently went up, they are still cheaper than the competition.
I wonder if it could be that Tesla are reviewing which stations will offer universal charging. Perhaps the one you were charging at will move to Tesla only as at 1st November.
Tesla recently announced that the chargers at their service centre in Tottenham, London will revert back to Tesla only. These were one of the first lot to be opened to all.
This is the only place (so far?) reverting back and seemingly it’s to provide a better service to their sales & service teams.
Update!!!! Just been to Tesla and charged they have extended the use of there chargers to non Tesla’s to November 24th but he also said that every charging company is going to be a chip and pin by uk law and there scrapping the apps altogether 🤷🏻♂️
Thats more like it!
I have setup the Tesla App and never used it for charging.
Its just Tesla catching up with UK Regulations and installing chip an pin for non tesla cars.
Next generation Tesla charging is a pop up wireless charging pad. That will make a difference, not dealing with plugs and cables.
I’ve charged at Tesla 6 times since we got the car 6 weeks ago. It’s really easy, I subscribed for £8.99 for our last trip to Cornwall and used Lifton twice, Cambourne once and Gloucester Northbound once, price with member discount was between 40p and 43p per KWh. Just plug in and select the charger number in the app and it automatically starts the charge and takes the payment.
Wanted to charge at Gloucester Southbound on the way there but it was full of Tesla’s so had to use Swarco ultrafast which charged at 135kw and was only 64p, there were 8 of them and only 3 being used.
New regulations apply 24th Nov whereby all new public chargers 8KW+ need a contactless payment method Existing chargers too 50KW +
the regulations came in last year but operators had a years grace to comply
Tesla V4 chargers support contactless so should be OK – but V2 and V3 chargers dont and are still the majority in the UK
Tesla may get a pass as are the biggest/cheapest operator. We’ll know in a week
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