All charging stations of the US car manufacturer Tesla in Germany are illegal. There are more than 1800 pieces. The problem: They do not show the consumer exactly how much electricity he is “filling up”. The authorities are aware of the problem – but they ignore it.
The charging stations for e-cars from the Tesla Germany brand do not comply with the law. The more than 1,800 stations of the US company in Germany do not correspond to an investigation by the funding project “ICT for electromobility” and manufacturer information, according to German calibration law, as the “Handelsblatt” reported on Thursday.
The problem with the columns is that they don’t have a counter. Customers therefore do not know how much electricity is being billed. But that is exactly what German law stipulates.
Katharina Boesche from the IKT believes that this will only change in some time. “It is to be expected that the retrofitting process for fast-charging infrastructure will drag on until the end of 2023,” she told the “Handelsblatt”.
The authorities are aware of the illegal charging stations – and apparently don’t care: “The illegal operation is not hindered and not sanctioned,” said the head of the Bavarian State Office for Weights and Measures, Thomas Weberpals, the “Handelsblatt”. “It was and is being worked towards a lawful state,” said the Berlin-Brandenburg State Office for Measurement and Calibration, which is responsible for Tesla’s retrofit.
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