Tesla's pilot charging station in Europe is being widely used by Tesla's non electric car owners Previously, the pilot project included some sites in the Netherlands, Norway and France, but now it can also be used in the UK, Spain, Sweden, Belgium and Austria.
Non Tesla owners in Belgium and Germany can only use Tesla's network when traveling to countries with open super charging stations. With Belgium now joining the program, German residents can use super charging stations abroad, but interestingly, they can't use cross brands at home.
Elon Musk has been talking about extending the program to the United States since last year, but he did not provide any specific information on how to implement it because Tesla uses a proprietary charging port in North America. But in an interview with the financial times last week, musk said Tesla was planning to add standardized charging ports for other electric vehicles to super charging stations in the United States.
Now, Tesla models and super charging stations in North America do not use the CCS2 standard supported by basically all electric vehicles in Europe (including Tesla), but rely on Tesla's proprietary charging plug. To make matters worse, most other North American electric vehicles are equipped with ccs1 connectors, while electric vehicles such as Nissan LEAF use the chademo standard, which makes things more complicated.
If you live in one of the pilot countries, you can now intervene in Tesla network charging with any electric vehicle brand, and you can easily find participating charging stations by using Tesla app. If you own a Tesla and another electric vehicle at the same time, you can also monitor the charging of the two vehicles in the application at the same time. It should be noted that non Tesla vehicles may incur additional fees based on the electricity price shared in the application.