Product Library / Energy, Solar & EV

Protocols: WIFI^{[1][4][5][10]}

Plans and ongoing costs^[2][3]

✓ Works without a subscription: Yes.

Vendor account required: Not established — we have not sourced this yet.

No subscription, plan or fee for home charging appears on any Tesla surface read, and the app features Tesla documents — charge scheduling, a live charging status, twelve months of charging history, a combined view of your Tesla energy products — are described without any paid tier attached. Recorded as 'none' on that basis, with coreFunctionWithoutPlan deliberately 'unknown' rather than 'full', because this is an absence of any mention of payment rather than a vendor statement that everything is included. What IS established is that an account is mandatory: Tesla's own setup instruction for a non-Tesla owner is to create one, and the charger only becomes visible and controllable once registered to it. One adjacent fact kept deliberately separate so it cannot be misread as a home-charging fee: Tesla documents a commercial mode for this same hardware with 'pay-per-use functionality and 24/7 remote monitoring' aimed at property managers and workplaces. That is a different deployment of the product, not a tier of the residential one.

Maintenance and offline use^[1][2]

• Works without the internet: Inconclusive — we read the vendor's own material and it does not answer this either way. It does not mean the product fails without the internet.
• Electrically this is a hardwired 48 A / 11.5 kW Level 2 unit with a 24-foot cable and a four-year residential warranty (Tesla's support page states the same term as '48 months from the date of invoice', and 12 months for commercial use). The headline speed is conditional in a way that matters at the breaker: Tesla publishes a full table mapping circuit breaker to output — 60 A breaker gives 48 A and 11.5 kW, 50 A gives 40 A and 9.6 kW, 40 A gives 32 A and 7.7 kW, and so on down to a 15 A breaker at 12 A and 2.8 kW. Tesla's own Power Management features exist so the unit can be installed on a smaller circuit than the maximum, which is the difference between a straightforward install and a panel upgrade. THE SPEED FOOTNOTE IS ALSO A CAR FACT, NOT A CHARGER FACT, and Tesla prints it in the small type: 'Maximum charge rate for Model 3 Rear-Wheel Drive, Model Y Rear-Wheel Drive and Model Y All-Wheel Drive is 32 A (7.7 kW) - up to 30 miles of range per hour.' The most-sold Teslas cannot use this charger's full output. The connector is NACS; the hardware is rated for indoor or outdoor mounting; and the handle is auto-sensing, opening the vehicle's charge port on approach. ONE CERTIFICATION CLAIM IS DELIBERATELY NOT MADE HERE. Tesla appears in the EPA's ENERGY STAR certified-EVSE dataset, but this record does not state that this product is ENERGY STAR certified, because the certificate cannot be tied to it: the entries are filed under part numbers Tesla publishes nowhere, and the closest one by specification records a 22 ft output cord where Tesla's shop page advertises 24 feet. A near-match on specification is not an identification.
• Security updates: No security-update support date is on record for this model yet. We haven't yet checked whether Tesla publishes one, so this is a gap in our research — not a statement about the manufacturer.

The catch

Start with the sentence Tesla prints above the price, because nothing else about this product matters as much: 'Purchases are limited to Tesla vehicle owners currently.' The hardware is not the constraint — Tesla's own support page says the Wall Connector 'is compatible with most electric vehicles including Tesla vehicles and other electric vehicles', and its app page says the app works 'whether you own a Tesla vehicle or another electric vehicle'. Tesla built a charger for everyone and currently sells it only to its own customers. If you drive something else, this record may be describing a product you cannot buy, and that is a channel policy that could change at any time — note Tesla's own 'currently'. Second, the smart-home answer is short: there isn't one. Across three Tesla surfaces read in full, Alexa, Google Home, Apple Home, HomeKit, Siri and SmartThings are named zero times. Tesla documents one control surface, its own app, and we could not confirm a Matter certificate for Tesla that would open a route around that. This is not a vendor saying no; it is a vendor saying nothing, which is why every one of those cells reads unknown rather than none. Third, the one integration that does exist is read-only. Home Assistant's core tesla_wall_connector integration polls the charger locally and exposes a genuinely rich set of sensors — session energy, contactor state, temperatures, phase voltages, vehicle connected, error codes — and documents no way to start, stop or throttle charging. Detailed instrumentation, zero control. Fourth, the headline speed is not your speed unless your car can take it, and Tesla says so in the footnote: Model 3 Rear-Wheel Drive, Model Y Rear-Wheel Drive and Model Y All-Wheel Drive cap at 32 A / 7.7 kW, well under the unit's 48 A / 11.5 kW. Tesla's own table maps every breaker size to a real output, which is the honest way to publish it. Fifth, this is hardwired, and Tesla instructs that it 'must be installed by a qualified electrician' — there is no plug-in variant to retreat to, so the installed cost is the real cost, and the 30C federal credit that used to offset it expired for property placed in service after 2026-06-30 per the IRS's own page. Sixth, Access Control — the feature that decides which cars may charge — is 'limited to Tesla vehicles' by Tesla's own statement, so a non-Tesla household loses it. Seventh, the network requirements are stricter than most: 2.4 GHz only, 802.11b/g/n, WPA2-CCMP/AES, no captive portal. Finally, two things verified rather than assumed, one of them a claim this record declines to make. A direct query of CPSC's recall database returns one Tesla record — the Powerwall 2 recall of 2025-11-13 — and it is not for any charger; a stablemate's recall transfers nothing, and this is recorded so nobody has to wonder. And Tesla is present in the EPA's ENERGY STAR EVSE dataset, but this record does NOT claim the Wall Connector is ENERGY STAR certified, because the entries are filed under internal part numbers Tesla publishes nowhere and the nearest match by specification lists a 22 ft cord against the 24 feet Tesla advertises. Close is not the same as identified.

Who it's for

The obvious fit is a Tesla household, and not only because of the purchase restriction: the charger appears alongside your other Tesla energy products in one app view, the garage shows your car plugged in, Access Control can restrict charging to your own vehicles, and the auto-sensing handle opens the charge port as you approach. If you already live in the Tesla app, this is the charger that disappears into it. It also suits a Home Assistant household better than its silence on every other platform would suggest — the core integration is local-polling and exposes an unusually detailed sensor set, so if what you want is to graph, log and alert on charging rather than to command it, this is one of the better-instrumented chargers in this catalogue. And it suits anyone whose priority is a maintained product from a company that ships firmware over the air and staffs a diagnostic flow behind it. It is the wrong charger for a household that wants voice control: Alexa, Google Home and Apple Home are unmentioned by the vendor and unreachable by Matter, and the ChargePoint charger in this same subcategory has a documented Alexa command set that this one has no equivalent of. It is the wrong charger if you want Home Assistant to actually control charging rather than watch it. It is the wrong charger for a rented or awkward electrical situation, because it is hardwired and Tesla requires an electrician — the Emporia charger in this subcategory offers a NEMA 14-50 plug route that this one does not. And unless something changes, it is simply not for sale to you at all if you do not already own a Tesla.

Sources & method

Numbered sources below back the facts marked with the matching number above. This is a research profile: compiled from manufacturer documentation, certification registries, and published testing — we state facts, not verdicts, and we have not physically tested this unit. How we work →

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