{"id":73660,"date":"2023-06-14T10:33:17","date_gmt":"2023-06-14T00:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=73660"},"modified":"2024-04-11T15:22:59","modified_gmt":"2024-04-11T05:52:59","slug":"tesla-wall-connector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/tesla-wall-connector\/","title":{"rendered":"Should You Buy A Tesla Wall Connector As Your EV Charger?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As an EV enthusiast and perhaps a Tesla aficionado, you may have mulled over the question: “Is investing in a Tesla Wall Connector as my home EV charger the right move?”<\/p>\n

If this query has been buzzing around your mind like a persistent fly at a summer barbie, you’ve come to the right place. Let’s examine the capabilities and offerings of Tesla’s latest ‘Gen 3’ Wall Connector, and see how it measures up.<\/p>\n

First, The Basics<\/h2>\n

\ud83d\ude2e\u200d\ud83d\udca8 You can<\/span> use the Tesla Wall Connector with non-Teslas.<\/strong><\/p>\n

If you want to charge your non-Tesla EV without any smarts, the Tesla home charger is compatible with any recent EV sold in Australia.<\/p>\n

\ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddfa In Australia, the Tesla wall charger does not have a proprietary ‘Tesla’ plug.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Unlike the USA, almost all EVs sold in Australia, including all Teslas, have the same ‘Type 2’ socket for AC charging at home.<\/p>\n

The Australian version of the Tesla Wall Connector has a compatible ‘Type 2’ connector plug like this:<\/p>\n

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A Type 2 connector plug.<\/p><\/div>\n

Some Aussies assume that the Aussie version of the Tesla EV charger comes with a Tesla (NACS) style plug. It doesn’t.<\/p>\n

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The Tesla NACS plug and socket. This is the plug on a US Wall Connector, but the Aussie version comes with the larger Type 2 (& CCS2) connector. Image: Tesla<\/p><\/div>\n

\ud83e\udd14 As a side-note:<\/strong> Last week, Ford, GM, and many charger manufacturers decided to adopt Tesla’s smaller NACS plugs<\/a> in the US, hinting at the possibility of the ‘Tesla plug’ becoming the new North American standard. However, it is unlikely that NACS will become the standard in Australia due to a crucial limitation: it cannot charge vehicles with 3-Phase AC electricity. Although it does support single-phase charging up to 11 kW \/ 48A, which is the fastest AC rate a Tesla Model 3\/Y can handle, the popularity of three-phase charging in Australia allows for charging speeds up to three times faster than the standard 32A single-phase (22kW vs 7.3kW), provided your vehicle can accommodate it. Considering this, it seems improbable that Australia would change its charging standards if it meant sacrificing the speed of three-phase charging from AC chargers.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\ud83e\udd37\u200d\u2640\ufe0f Confused by all this talk of connector types, AC\/DC and EV charging in general?<\/strong> This video I made has everything an EV newbie needs to know in Australia:<\/p>\n