Tesla granny charger on a non-Tesla?

[G4WFT]

Please excuse my ignorance if this is a stupid question! My other half has just ordered a Seat Mii which apparently comes without a 13A charger. As it's a Type 2 charging connector would the Tesla 13A charger be OK to use with it? Or does the Tesla charger talk a proprietary protocol? As we have a 7kW home charge point I doubt it will be needed much but just thinking about options.

 

[MovingSouth]

It should just work. The type 2 interface is standardised.

 

[G4WFT]

It should just work. The type 2 interface is standardised.

Yeah, I thought so. I thought it was worth asking though! Thanks.

 

[init6]

Can you charge other EV using your portable Tesla UMC?

I'm curious about this, but since I live in the US our Tesla cords are different here so I cannot try it out myself. I understand the Tesla mobile connector comes with a Type 2 connector just about everywhere except for North America, so it should be usable for charging other electric vehicles...

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[G4WFT]

Can you charge other EV using your portable Tesla UMC?

I'm curious about this, but since I live in the US our Tesla cords are different here so I cannot try it out myself. I understand the Tesla mobile connector comes with a Type 2 connector just about everywhere except for North America, so it should be usable for charging other electric vehicles...

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Apologies, I did do a search and somehow missed that.

 

[spooksman]

We use my Tesla 13amp charger on my wife's Peugeot e208 without issue.

 

[Mr H]

It works on our ZOE

 

[GeorgeSymonds]

UMC2 as supplied with the M3, MY and later MS and MX is fine. Be wary of the earlier UMC1 chargers as they did something very funny, it splits 32a single phase across 2 phases but signals 32a which some non Tesla cars get confused by and fry themselves.

 

[G4WFT]

Thank you very much for your replies chaps. George, the charger we have is what came with the Model 3 we bought in Sept 2020 so should be OK.

 

[spooksman]

Thank you very much for your replies chaps. George, the charger we have is what came with the Model 3 we bought in Sept 2020 so should be OK.

"George"

 

[G4WFT]

Yeah, I was actually replying to George, not implying that we called our granny charger George! It's name is Egbert.

 

[GeorgeSymonds]

And if I told you my middle name was Egbert would you believe me?

 

[ACarneiro]

And if I told you my middle name was Egbert would you believe me?

…… is it?

 

[Bernard_S]

Please excuse my ignorance if this is a stupid question! My other half has just ordered a Seat Mii which apparently comes without a 13A charger. As it's a Type 2 charging connector would the Tesla 13A charger be OK to use with it? Or does the Tesla charger talk a proprietary protocol? As we have a 7kW home charge point I doubt it will be needed much but just thinking about options.

I'll try it on my wife's Mii tomorrow if you like.

 

[G4WFT]

Thanks Bernard. It sounds like there should be no problem from the responses there has been. We have a Pod Point 7kW charger so we probably won't have much need for the 13A charger but it might just come in handy. She will pick up the Mii next week so we'll give it a try then. Thanks to all who've contributed, especially George Egbert Symonds!

 

[Adopado]

Thank you very much for your replies chaps. George, the charger we have is what came with the Model 3 we bought in Sept 2020 so should be OK.

Definitely a Gen2 so will be fine.