Charging

Infrastructure investor Meridiam has led a €23 million round in French depot-charging specialist Chargepoly, whose modular architecture shares one power connection across many charge points. The money funds international expansion for truck and bus fleet charging.

Tesla has started delivering a firmware update to Gen 2 Mobile Connectors, using the car itself as the delivery route: the vehicle downloads the package over its own connection and transfers it to the plugged-in connector, showing only an on-screen notice. Tesla has published no release notes and no version number, so what the update changes is unknown.

Charging operator EVIO has 22 Supercharger sites and 176 stalls in its deployment pipeline under Tesla's Supercharger for Business programme — one live at up to 325 kW, five under construction and sixteen more planned, almost all V4 hardware rated to 500 kW. Site owners set their own prices and Tesla takes $0.10 per kWh.

Hyundai Motor Group has consolidated its smart charging, vehicle-to-grid and vehicle-to-home services under a single global name, AllDayEnergy. The UK gets it first through the Kia app, with continental Europe, the US and South Korea to follow. Smart charging ships first; V2G and V2H come after.

A new ADAC test of five electric cars found AC charging losses stayed under 7% on an 11 or 22 kW wallbox but reached 24.2% on a household Schuko socket. The worst case, a Mercedes CLA 350 EQ, lost 24.2% at the socket against 6.9% at the wallbox.

EVgo has agreed to deploy 500 kW Tesla V4 Superchargers under its own brand through Tesla's Supercharger for Business programme, with EVgo owning the hardware and Tesla building, operating and maintaining it. Installations start this autumn in the US.

MAN has built the first series-production electric trucks fitted with the Megawatt Charging System at its Munich plant. The eTGX and eTGS can now charge at up to 750 kW, and the first customer vehicles are going out in nine European countries.

Tesla is waiving Supercharger fees for all EVs — including non-Tesla vehicles — at nine stations in France and Spain from 29 July to 5 August 2026, helping residents and evacuees during the summer's wildfires.

Tesla has opened a full-power public Megacharger for the Semi in Bloomington, California — six stalls delivering up to 1.2 MW each, recovering about 70% of range in roughly 30 minutes. It follows the grid-limited 750 kW site Tesla opened in Ontario earlier this year.

Plenitude, the mobility arm of Italian energy group Eni, has opened its largest German charging park in Moenchhagen near Rostock. The site on federal road B105 offers 22 charging points with peaks up to 400 kW, giving Tesla and other EV drivers a fast new stop on the Baltic coast corridor.

Spain's government has confirmed more than €100 million for electromobility, funding nearly 2,700 new fast-charging points along the country's main transport corridors under the 'Moves Corredores de Recarga' programme.

Tesla is rolling out forecasted Supercharger stall availability to non-Tesla EVs with Google Maps built in, predicting how busy a charger will be by the time you arrive — provided you let Tesla see your trip data.

Tesla has switched on Europe's first Supercharger backed by a full V4 power cabinet, at Hellerudsletta near Oslo, lifting the site's ceiling to 500 kW per stall.

Tesla has announced its 2026 Free Supercharging Competition, in which nine owners across three world regions can win free Supercharging for as long as they own their car, decided by how they used the network this year.

Alpitronic has added a high-performance dispenser to its HYC1000 megawatt charging system that can deliver up to 1,000 kW and over 1,000 A through a single liquid-cooled CCS cable, up from a previous 600 kW ceiling. It is more headroom than any car on sale today can use.

From 30 June 2026, ChargePoint will close the accounts of private drivers in Europe, keeping its app and RFID card only for people whose access is arranged through an employer, fleet operator or leasing company. Affected drivers can still charge at ChargePoint stations using a contactless bank card, a roaming app or a third-party service, and any money left in a ChargePoint Wallet can be refunded within 90 days.

Porsche's 2027 Taycan makes the 105 kWh battery standard, charges at up to 320 kW for as much as 700 km of WLTP range, adds a paid 'E-Shift' virtual gearbox, and switches to a native NACS port in North America.

Code uncovered in Tesla's app version 4.58.0 shows the company is building Live Updates-style charging notifications for Android, bringing the lock-screen experience iOS users have had for years. The feature is not switched on yet, but the groundwork looks complete.

Tesla has installed a free car vacuum between the stalls at a V4 Supercharger in Lindau, Germany — believed to be a first for the network. It is the latest sign of Tesla turning charging stops into proper rest stops with lounges, canopies and amenities.

Tesla plans pre-assembled, plug-and-play Megacharger units for the Semi that deliver up to 1.2 MW and can be dropped into place rather than built on site, mirroring its folding Supercharger strategy.

Fastned and Places for London have opened their first ultra-rapid charging hub at Hatton Cross near Heathrow — 12 bays at up to 400 kW, open around the clock, with free charging from 15 to 19 June 2026 and 24 more London sites to follow.

BYD confirms a European rollout of its 1,500 kW Flash chargers — roughly 3,000 units by 2027, one site every ~50 km on busy corridors, 300 UK stations by end of 2027, and a target price under 50p per kWh, powered by on-site batteries.

Tesla has installed its first folding V4 Supercharger in Europe, a factory pre-assembled unit that ships more stalls per truck, halves installation time and cuts deployment cost by more than 20%. A full European motorway rollout is targeted for Q3 2026.

Prague's city-owned utility PRE has switched on the Czech capital's largest charging hub in Praha 9, with 161 connectors including two 400 kW Alpitronic fast chargers and real-time load management.