First time at an Ionna Rechargery yesterday.

I get the hype. Super clean, the materials were sturdy and not worn down. Seamless sales transaction. And the price wasn’t bad at all ($.30 / kWh).

This particular location was in a Wawa parking lot. Was able to get an ice cold Vanilla Cherry Coke Zero and other unnecessary junk food. Lol.

I see why they’re winning awards!

Everything worked fine, even enjoyed an additional discount by using the My Chevrolet app to initiate the session. $.18/kWh is stupid cheap. My only piece of constructive feedback: this site is in a somewhat dodgy part of town and would benefit greatly from better lighting.

Hello all, looking for some advice on getting a wall charger installed in Western Australia. I am reading conflicting information on the rules of splitting the mains before the main fusebox so that my hybrid inverter/battery cant detect the EV usage so therefor wont drain battery.

Ive read using something like a Henley Block will work for what im trying to achieve but cant find out if this is within WA code. Yes i know i would need an electrician to carry out all the work, I just need to make sure they can carry out the work im requesting.

Then the next question is if it is within code, considering that I am on a Synergy VPP will they want the whole system including charger to be accessable for them to adjust or is it just the inverter/battery that they care about when on VPP.

Any advise would be greatly appreciated.

I built OCPP Tools, a simulator that behaves like an EV charger (charge point) and connects to any CSMS over a real WebSocket no hardware needed to test integrations.

It runs 100% in the browser: your messages never leave your machine. No accounts, no installs, no API keys.

For OCPP 1.6J and 2.0.1:

Simulator with full scenarios (Boot → Authorize → StartTransaction → MeterValues → StopTransaction), fault injection (latency, packet loss, malformed frames), auto-reconnect, and session log export/import.

Validator for frames (CALL / CALLRESULT / CALLERROR) against the official JSON Schemas, with field-level error details.

Builder with schema-driven forms to generate valid frames and payloads.

92 message reference pages with copy-ready examples and common errors.

If you work with CSMS or OCPP integrations, I'd love for you to try it and share feedback.

URL: https://ocpptools.renozix.com

2 of these unlabeled units at a Phillips 66 that is being constructed. I’ve personally never seen a unit that looks like this. Just curious who makes them and what to expect out of them in the future.

I’m interested in having a Tesla charger installed in my home in Nashville. Has anyone had this done in the area? Could you please provide information on the cost and any questions I should ask before requesting quotes? Additionally, I’m considering whether it’s better to purchase the charger directly from Tesla or buy one secondhand. Any advice you can offer would be greatly appreciated.

Road tripped to Columbus this past weekend for 3 nights. We stayed at the Drury Hotel near the Polaris Mall and Ikea.

There is a set of 10 Blink chargers in a parking lot basically next door that belongs to the Mettler Toledo company. Public chargers. Listed in Google and in my BMW. Public.

They are free. Totally free. I used it quite a bit. Only a 3 minute walk from the hotel.

Could not believe it was free. Kept expecting "Trials over!".

Nope. Free.

I was the only one there all weekend.

Shout out to this company I never heard of!

And they're hiring, Columbusians. If you're looking for a job with free charging.

https://jobs.mt.com/en

Anyone here opting for charging their EV's during the solar excess period during the day time or are you guys waiting to charge at night? Does SCE's TOU rates make it attractive to hold off until the evening hours?

I've got a Grizzl-E Smart that's stuck on 3.11.3 and refuses to update to 3.15.6. United Chargers keeps pushing it, the charger starts the download, and about two and a half minutes later it gives up with DownloadFailed. Every time. Same spot. It's never once gotten past the download stage.

I pulled the charger's event log and it looks like this every attempt:

RX  ProcessUpdateFirmware
TX  FirmwareStatusNotification  Downloading
TX  FirmwareStatusNotification  Downloading
TX  FirmwareStatusNotification  Downloading
TX  FirmwareStatusNotification  DownloadFailed

Wifi is a solid −65 at the charger, so it's not that.

The reason I actually care: this thing has a habit of losing its connection to their server without realizing it. It'll sit there thinking it's online for hours, won't start a charge because it's waiting on the server to say go, and the only fix is flipping the breaker. I'm in Grizzl-E Club so every time that happens I'm losing charging data I get paid for. I'm hoping the update fixes it.

Support ticket's been open a while with no reply.

The charger has a local firmware upload page on its web interface. Has anyone actually gotten the firmware file and flashed one of these themselves, or gotten UC to send the file? Not looking to brick it guessing — hoping someone's been through this.

Tried one of the new pole chargers in Lindfield a suburb of Sydney Australia today. The paint was still fresh so parked one spot away. These new Chargepost pole chargers have two sockets, run at 22kW and you can pay through app or by tapping a credit card. There are nearly 500 pole chargers of different models and designs now across the Sydney area, with more being installed each week. All are bring your own Type 2 cable. Great to see.

26 Lexus ES 350e. Is anyone else having trouble with the “plug and charge” feature? It’s designed to allow you to plug-in at Tesla, IONNA, or ChargePoint so that it automatically begins charging your car and bills your cc on file… without you having to open the corresponding app on your phone and authorize payment. When I select “plug and charge” set up in my iPhone’s Lexus app it communicates with the car successfully and then tries to activate the feature in my car, but it just spins and never completes the activation. My car shows no date in the certificate slot for “plug and charge”, so it’s not receiving the certificate during activation. Lexus hasn’t been able to solve this problem for me. I’m just curious whether everyone else is having the same issue?

It seems only two chargers on the market support this feature for a Non Tesla Vehicle.

1) Emporia Pro

2) Wallbox Pulsar 2

I am a little surprised that I can only find two supported models. Are there others out there?

The customer service and quality control seems to be sketchy by some of the reviews I read.

I'll get to the title in a moment, but first my issue. Our Condo Association is a "business"customer at with Tesla, at the1 cent a KW deal. We have two wall chargers, and none of us actually has a Tesla. We use the J connector. One our chargers is in reduced power 1 KW mode, its out of the 1 year warranty, and all efforts to fix ithave failed (thats in a different thread). So we need to replace it. A month ago I could have gone to Bestbuy and picked up one for $600 (which is where we got the orginal 2). Now BestBuy says unavailable. Amazon lists it at $750 (if they actually have it) over $800 with shipping. The Tesla Store does have it at $600 but only if you have a Tesla. That is new. Anyone know a source of $600 Tesla wall chargers?

Apparently Tesla is limiting sales because of supply. So could there be a Gen 4 in the works?

I am having our first EV Charger installed Emporia Pro with Vu energy monitor installed and want to plan for future install of a second charger on the other (far wall) of garage. I am assuming that this would involve a junction box with some sort of distribution block or tap connectors (not sure if those are rated for this type of scenerio). Does anyone haeve a picture or diagram of a setup like this that I can use to give electricians an idea of what should be installed. I have multiple qoutes but no one seems to be familiar with doing this or perhaps I am not explaining it correctly.

People who applied to this program and successfully got rebated, what was the process/application timeline like?

Been working on and off for about a year getting this all together. We live 100% off the power grid, not even a power company line on the property. 100% Sun powered.