Charging at Tesla Destination Charger... Not quite working. Anyone experience this?

[Dragon Tourniquet]

A lot of the early destination chargers were either heavily subsidized or "free", with the cost of the EVSE and install covered by Tesla, but they had a requirement that they be dedicated to Tesla vehicles. It could be that you were trying to charge at one of those.

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[cometguy]

Try using the Tesla app instead of the Porsche app?

 

[daveo4EV]

Try using the Tesla app instead of the Porsche app?

desitination chargers are not app based - they are just normal residential charger that you plug in - no account required/necessary or supported

if plugging it in doesn't work - then there is nothing else to do.

 

[Gasbaron]

I use a Lectron adapter with Tesla wall charger at home (same as destination charger) and it works fine.

 

[AndrewH]

To add some direct experience, I have a Tesla Gen 2 wall charger. A couple of months back I hired a Polestar EV and tried to charge it on my charger and it wouldn't charge. At the time, I assumed it was the car as I didn't have time to troubleshoot it.

Turns out my new Macan didn't like charging from it either so I did more digging. It seems that the Gen 2 wall chargers are indeed only set up to charge Teslas (not sure if the Tesla to J1772 EV adapters you use in the US changes that or not??). So I replaced my Gen 2 with a Gen 3 (because my local hardware store stocks them, they are a lot cheaper than alternatives and one day hopefully they'll integrate it with Powerwalls) and hey presto, it now charges the Macan just fine

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