ChargePoint is sharply narrowing who can use its app and RFID card in Europe. From 30 June 2026, private drivers who signed up directly will lose the ability to find, start or pay for charging sessions through ChargePoint's own tools — a change that catches out anyone who has been roaming on the network alongside their home or Supercharger charging.

What is changing

As confirmed by electrive and ChargePoint's own driver support pages, the company is restricting app and RFID access in Europe to a specific group of users: those whose charging is provided through an employer, a fleet manager, a charge point operator, a station owner or a leasing provider. Everyone else — the private retail customer who created a personal ChargePoint account — falls outside that group.

For those accounts, the cut-off is firm. ChargePoint says affected personal accounts will be permanently closed on 30 June 2026, after which the app and RFID card can no longer be used to locate stations, begin a session or process payment.

You can still charge — just differently

The important nuance is that this is a change to ChargePoint's account and payment layer, not a shutdown of the hardware. Drivers can still pull up to a ChargePoint-operated station and charge. What changes is how you authenticate and pay:

  • Contactless bank card at stations that support direct card payment
  • Roaming services, where your existing charging provider settles the session on the ChargePoint network
  • Third-party charging apps that include ChargePoint sites in their coverage

In practice, most European EV drivers already carry at least one roaming card or app that reaches multiple networks, so the day-to-day impact is mainly about which app you open rather than whether you can charge at all.

Refunds for leftover balances

If you have been topping up a ChargePoint Wallet, that money is not lost. ChargePoint says users with a remaining balance can request a refund to their registered payment method, though it warns the process can take up to 90 days to complete. Anyone with a meaningful balance should start that request before the account closes rather than after.

Why it matters for Tesla owners

Tesla drivers in Europe increasingly mix networks: Superchargers for the backbone of long trips, and third-party CCS chargers — ChargePoint among them — to fill gaps, especially at workplaces and retail sites. For owners who set up a personal ChargePoint account specifically to use those non-Tesla locations, this is a prompt to check how you authenticate there and to make sure a contactless card or a broad roaming app covers the same stations.

It also fits a wider pattern in European charging, where operators are steadily consolidating around contactless payment, roaming networks and fleet contracts rather than maintaining a dedicated direct-to-consumer app for every brand. The result for drivers is fewer logins to manage, but only if you move your access to a service that still covers the stations you actually use before the 30 June deadline.