It will be interesting to see what happens to the open V2 and V3 Tesla Superchargers come 24th November when the charge point regulations take effect. 27 or so will become non-compliant on the 24th as they don’t accept contactless. There is another 20 or so will become non-compliant in April next year.
The options seems to be:
1) Do nothing and play chicken with the regulator.
2) Return the chargers to being Tesla only.
The law seems pretty clear to me, if they don’t accept contactless by the 24th and they remain open to all, fines are due.
Neither outcome is desirable and not just for Tesla. It’s pretty damaging for the government also.
While the legislation was well intentioned, if they enforce, the sites will go back to Tesla only. If they don’t enforce, they’ll look weak.
In any case, having 47 large charging hubs yanked from full public use when you are trying to push the ICE ban forward to 2030 is not going to generate good headlines.
