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0 pointsburan774y ago0 comments

It's mentioned in the 2014/94/EU directive on the deployment of alternative fuels infrastructure [0], see (26) and (33). It is not a law but it is a guideline for EU countries to implement it as law. And the countries that make up the majority of the EU's charging infrastructure plan on doing exactly that, so any delay would have put Tesla in non-compliance.

Furthermore, this 2021 European Court of Auditors special report pushed for the same [1].

A Supercharger station gives access to private users with an authorisation or a subscription so it's considered accessible to the public. All charging stations accessible to the public should to allow multistandard recharging.

[0] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELE...

[1] https://www.eca.europa.eu/Lists/ECADocuments/SR21_05/SR_Elec...

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Reason0774y ago

2014/94/EU requires that public charging stations support a common technical standard, ie: CCS.

There is nothing in it that requires Tesla (or any other operator) to make their network available to all makes of vehicle.

However, without an "open" charging network Tesla cannot access government funds for charging network expansion that is available to their competitors.

Reason0774y ago

> "It is not a law but it is a guideline for EU countries to implement it as law."

This is how all EU directives work. Member states are required to implement EU directives in law.

yreg4y ago

Thank you.

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