Romford new Tesla charger station - different adaptor

[MichelleV]

Hello
I just tried to charger at the new Tesla station at the Liberty shopping centre in Romford. I have a Tesla model S 2016.
The adaptor/plug is totally different to any I have seen before and doesn’t fit my car. I have tried Googling adaptors etc but can’t seem to find out what I need, can anybody advise please? Seems to be like Apple now need a different cable.
Thanks

 

[Veggen]

This is a CCS plug which is the standard for european DC charging.
You need to have an upgrade done at Tesla to be able to use these new stations.

 

[Rocky_H]

Yes, that is the CCS2 plug. I'm surprised you haven't seen it before, since that's what almost all of the public fast charging stations throughout Europe are. All of the Model 3 and Model Y cars have that as their native port that is built into the car. It's what Tesla is going to in Europe.

The Model S and X have the older Type2 port (Mennekes) port on the cars. Tesla offers a service upgrade to change a circuit board inside the car so it can communicate with CCS2 and there is a plug adapter that goes with that.

For the Supercharger version 2 stations, Tesla just added another cable, so they have both--the older Type2 plug and the new CCS2. But for the newer Supercharger version 3 stations, they are putting in only the CCS2 cables. So if you want to use the V3 Superchargers, you will need to get that upgrade done. I think most owners of S and X are getting that done.