New Tesla Home Charger UK?

[Huggybear]

I know Tesla have a new Wi-Fi home charger in the USA. Anyone know when it will be released in the UK?

Thanks

 

[Banksy888]

Looks nice. It might now be "smart" enough to attract the OLEV grant and hopefully they've included DC leak protection too...I guess we'll have to wait and see. I couldn't find any new manuals for it.

(Personally I'm quite happy to have the older design because it's a relatively dumb device so easy to diagnose and less to go wrong.)

I guess we'll see it here when Europe stock starts to run low?

 

[UrbanSplash]

18’ cable only? That’s just over 5m

prefer the longer version currently

 

[MrBadger]

Bit of an awkward cable length for some. Model 3 is just shy of 5m long (is S or X longer?) so nose on charging may be problematical in some circumstances. We have a loop spare on our 7m lead, so 6m would fit our needs, but if you can't nose right in, its even more of a problem.

 

[Cwmwd]

It might now be "smart" enough to attract the OLEV grant

Probably not:Tesla never submitted the current/previous model to OLEV which is why it wasn't on the list of approved charge points and thus not eligible for the grant (even when the grant didn't need "smarts"). I don't think they'll submit the new one either.

 

[drewpost]

I also saw that it only outputs 11.5 Kw vs the current one now that goes up to 22. I wonder if this is owing to differences I the electrical grids and any UK/EU version would still be able to charge up to 22 Kw.

 

[Mark_T]

Bit of an awkward cable length for some. Model 3 is just shy of 5m long (is S or X longer?)

 

[Mark_T]

I also saw that it only outputs 11.5 Kw vs the current one now that goes up to 22. I wonder if this is owing to differences I the electrical grids and any UK/EU version would still be able to charge up to 22 Kw.

You'd need 3 phase power to get 22kW, and even then most of the cars can't be charged that fast on AC.

7.4kW would be the maximum on a normal single phase UK domestic power supply.

 

[UrbanSplash]

I would like to see what features the WiFi brings, and a longer cable before I swap my mk2

 

[Mark_T]

I would like to see what features the WiFi brings, and a longer cable before I swap my mk2

Same here.

I'd be forced to reverse into my charging spot every time if I had to give up my longer cable, and no chance of charging with another car in the way, so the standard cable doesn't cut it for me.

However if they have got the charger and car communicating fully and the ability to set and change charging time from the app then I'd be tempted...