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#3478314 5-Apr-2026 17:41

I park right next to my power point and it's trivial to plug in when I return home. I'd tend to keep the money and spend on more car instead.

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#3478320 5-Apr-2026 18:36

gzt: I park right next to my power point and it's trivial to plug in when I return home. I'd tend to keep the money and spend on more car instead.

Ditto, it takes me 20 seconds to charge. 10 seconds when I get home to plug it in, and 10 seconds when I leave, putting the plug away safely.

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#3478373 6-Apr-2026 09:50

For us living rurally, however, easily driving over 100km on a daily basis, it makes sense to have two EVSEs. In theory they are both 7.2kW but the garage supply is 25A if there is no solar so we limit them combined to 24A. They're not usually charging on the same night (plus day, as they move at different times) so that works well for us.

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#3478393 6-Apr-2026 10:55

SaltyNZ:

For us living rurally, however, easily driving over 100km on a daily basis, it makes sense to have two EVSEs. In theory they are both 7.2kW but the garage supply is 25A if there is no solar so we limit them combined to 24A. They're not usually charging on the same night (plus day, as they move at different times) so that works well for us.

We have the comparative luxury of two EVSEs. Our original one is an old 'dumb' Juicepoint unit which does duty on the Leaf, so restricted to a bit over 3 kW of supply. Our Polestar has it's own Evnex E2 which was installed when we upsized our solar to 8.2 kW so sufficient to fully supply the Evnex on full charge rate. I did consider flogging off the Juicepoint but its secondhand price would have been close to the cost of a type1/2 adapter to allow the Evnex to connect to the Leaf. The other consideration is that giving the Polestar its own dedicated charger simplifies the taxation claims on its charging as it's our company owned vehicle. Just call up the charging summary of the Evnex to retrieve the totals.

Leaf is charged on clear sunny days where possible or else on night import rates. Polestar is usually put on solar diversion or night charged. Interesting though that running the Evnex on its maximum capacity at night sees our grid voltage at 'Feed in point' drop well below 220V (i.e. 214V) when we night charge. We've never attempted to charge both vehicles at night but I expect this would definitely push the limits of our rural grid supply and feed to the garage.

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#3479137 8-Apr-2026 12:34

New ChargeNet Ts & Cs update:

Vehicle Setup & Automatic Charging: We’re excited to share that you can now link your vehicles (subject to compatibility) to your account, and authenticate, via Plug & Charge or Autocharge for automatic session starts. Vehicle data may be used by us and our third-party suppliers to facilitate these services, as well as to improve services, detect fraud and generate reporting insights. You can unlink vehicles at any time.

I wonder which vehicles will be supported? Tesla, almost certainly, since they already do this to identify themselves to Tesla superchargers.

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#3479142 8-Apr-2026 12:47

SaltyNZ:

New ChargeNet Ts & Cs update:

Vehicle Setup & Automatic Charging: We’re excited to share that you can now link your vehicles (subject to compatibility) to your account, and authenticate, via Plug & Charge or Autocharge for automatic session starts. Vehicle data may be used by us and our third-party suppliers to facilitate these services, as well as to improve services, detect fraud and generate reporting insights. You can unlink vehicles at any time.

I wonder which vehicles will be supported? Tesla, almost certainly, since they already do this to identify themselves to Tesla superchargers.

Presume it is via number plate recognition, so any vehicle then.

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#3479146 8-Apr-2026 12:49

fastbike:

SaltyNZ:

New ChargeNet Ts & Cs update:

Vehicle Setup & Automatic Charging: We’re excited to share that you can now link your vehicles (subject to compatibility) to your account, and authenticate, via Plug & Charge or Autocharge for automatic session starts. Vehicle data may be used by us and our third-party suppliers to facilitate these services, as well as to improve services, detect fraud and generate reporting insights. You can unlink vehicles at any time.

I wonder which vehicles will be supported? Tesla, almost certainly, since they already do this to identify themselves to Tesla superchargers.

Presume it is via number plate recognition, so any vehicle then.

It uses the car's unique identifier which is transferred during the "handshake" when you connect a charger to the car.

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#3479147 8-Apr-2026 12:50

It's not number plate recognition. It's an identifier communicated with the charger when you connect. Many vehicles with CCS2 will be compatible. Vehicles with only CHAdeMO will not be compatible.

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#3479158 8-Apr-2026 13:12

Stu:

It's not number plate recognition. It's an identifier communicated with the charger when you connect. Many vehicles with CCS2 will be compatible. Vehicles with only CHAdeMO will not be compatible.

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#3479161 8-Apr-2026 13:20

Only works with the ChargeNet high speed chargers. And for anyone looking to set this up, you'll probably need to connect to a compatible high speed charger twice (from when they enabled the feature) before you're offered the ability to 'autocharge' within the app.

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#3479163 8-Apr-2026 13:23

fastbike:

Presume it is via number plate recognition, so any vehicle then.

how would they do that when there are no cameras in the chargers?

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#3479172 8-Apr-2026 13:30

Jase2985:

fastbike:

Presume it is via number plate recognition, so any vehicle then.

how would they do that when there are no cameras in the chargers?

I'm shocked that they don't have them to let them notify towies of anyone ICEing them or hogging it without plugging in.

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#3479242 8-Apr-2026 15:03

richms:

Jase2985:

fastbike:

Presume it is via number plate recognition, so any vehicle then.

how would they do that when there are no cameras in the chargers?

I'm shocked that they don't have them to let them notify towies of anyone ICEing them or hogging it without plugging in.

They rely on the public, but they dont generally own the site they are situated on so there is nothing they can do except contact the site owner.

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#3479243 8-Apr-2026 15:16

Does anyone know what charging ports new EVs in Japan will be using going forward? I see Toyota are actually selling a few of the BZ4X over there now, but I assume even the 2026 version is still CHAdeMO?

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#3479252 8-Apr-2026 15:33

BlargHonk:

Does anyone know what charging ports new EVs in Japan will be using going forward? I see Toyota are actually selling a few of the BZ4X over there now, but I assume even the 2026 version is still CHAdeMO?

Imports will be type 1 and chademo, NACS doesn't seem to be making inroads there like in the states where its become the standard because of how good teslas network is. Japan is mostly single phase but at 100/200v instead of the 120/240 of the USA, NACS also has the advantage over type 1 in that it can go to 277v which is a single phase of a US 480v supply. Not sure if there is a 400v equivalent in Japan or not.

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