Tesla has launched a new, specialized version of its popular Wall Connector in the Netherlands, designed to solve a problem in the EV market space — charging a company car at home.
The new charger, priced at €570 ($672 USD), looks nearly identical to the standard model, but contains a critical piece of hardware under the hood: a MID-certified meter.
This isn’t a feature aimed at the average retail customer. Instead, it's a powerful tool that enables employers to accurately record and reimburse their employees for the cost of charging a company-provided Tesla at home. This process has, until now, been a logistical and administrative process where employees needed to provide charging records for reimbursement.
In many European countries, it’s common for employees to have a company car as part of their compensation package. But how does a company accurately and fairly reimburse an employee for charging the car at home, using their own electricity? With a gas or diesel vehicle, the employee would simply use the company’s credit or debit card to fill up at a gas station.
Previous reimbursement solutions were often manual and imprecise. Companies often offered a flat monthly stipend that could over- or underpay the employee. At best, the employee could use a Wall Connector to view charging stats in the app. Unfortunately, Charge Stats is not available for non-primary account holders. Either way, it was a manual process completed by the employee.
In the worst case, the company may require the employee to keep mileage logs and perform calculations to estimate charging costs.
Tesla’s new Wall Connector is designed to eliminate this friction entirely. By building a certified meter directly into the charger, it can precisely measure every kilowatt-hour that flows into the vehicle. This data can be automatically recorded and reported, providing the company with a verifiable, billing-grade record of the exact charging costs to be reimbursed.
The key to this entire system is the MID certification. MID stands for Measuring Instruments Directive, a set of standards mandated by the European Union. Its purpose is to harmonize the requirements for any measuring device that is used for trade or for legal and administrative purposes, where accuracy is important.
Think of it as the same legal guarantee of accuracy that you see on a gas pump or the main electric meter on the side of your house. The MID certification ensures that the instrument is not only precise but also reliable and tamper-proof.
For employers, it provides a legally sound, accountable, and verifiable record of energy consumption without guesswork or estimation. For employees, it ensures that they are fairly and accurately compensated for the exact amount of electricity used to charge their work vehicle, without any disputes.
Without MID certification, a charger's energy reading is just an estimate. With it, the reading becomes a trusted financial record, making the entire reimbursement process seamless and compliant for everyone involved.
While the new Wall Connector is currently only listed for sale in the Netherlands, it’s a product that solves a problem common across Europe. While Tesla's consumer market gets all the glory, Tesla also does a great job focusing on its business solutions. They have recently made Superchargers available for white labeling by businesses.
We expect this product to roll out to more European countries in the coming months; however, it may not see a release state-side.
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Tesla is rolling out a small but smart software tweak to Summon Standby, designed to intelligently conserve your vehicle’s battery life when the feature is least likely to be used. The changes, a part of Tesla’s 2025.32 update, introduce a set of new rules that automatically disable Summon Standby during specific off-peak hours, and after long periods of your vehicle being parked.
Summon Standby is a convenience feature that keeps your vehicle’s FSD computer partially awake, allowing for a quick connection and activation of the Summon feature from the Tesla app. The trade-off is that Summon Standby keeps the vehicle awake, causing energy loss known as phantom drain.
These changes in update 2025.32 strike a balance between convenience and conserving energy by turning off the feature during certain hours of the day.
There are two new conditions under which your vehicle will automatically pause Summon Standby to conserve energy.
The first is overnight. Summon Standby will be automatically paused, allowing your vehicle to turn off its computers and conserve energy. This happens between the hours of midnight and 6 AM. It seems that, according to Tesla’s data on summon usage, this is the period when the feature is least used, hence the change. For now, you cannot turn off this automatic pause, so if you regularly use summon during that period, you’ll have to wait a few extra seconds for your vehicle to fully wake up and connect.
The second condition in which Summon Standby is automatically disabled is if your vehicle has been parked for an extended period of time. If your vehicle is parked for over 24 hours, Summon Standby is disabled until the vehicle is driven again. This will certainly reduce energy usage when parking your vehicle for longer periods, such as when going on vacation.
Tesla is also solving this long-term parking issue with its new Low Power Mode, which gives users a single button to push that will disable all of the vehicle’s high-consumption features while the car is parked. It disables features such as cabin preconditioning scheduling, Summon Stand By, Sentry Mode, Cabin Overheat Protection, and other features that cause phantom drain.
For owners, the practical impact of this change is fairly minimal. If you try to use Summon during these deactivation periods, you’ll face a slight delay as your car wakes up.
This change is a logical, data-driven optimization to help the vast majority of users save energy. By disabling Summon Standby during late-night hours and for vehicles left parked for extended periods, Tesla is reducing unnecessary energy consumption with very little impact to the user experience.
This slight trade-off, with a minor startup delay in off-hours, results in better overall efficiency and more energy saved for actual driving. Across the entire Tesla fleet, this could result in massive energy savings, helping reduce the strain on the electrical grid, saving owners money, and lowering pollution due to electricity production.
This update is a classic example of Tesla’s continuous refinement of features, using software to make small, intelligent improvements that improve the ownership experience – even if your vehicle is sitting still.
Tesla has officially opened the sign-up process for its 2025 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, setting the stage for another one of the most anticipated events on the company calendar. This year’s meeting will once again be held at Giga Texas in Austin. It will offer a chance for investors to engage with Tesla’s leadership and vote on its future'.
The meeting is scheduled to take place on Thursday, November 6, 2025, at 1 pm Pacific. For those unable to attend, the entire meeting will be livestreamed, with a special meeting invitation available for verified shareholders that includes the ability to vote.
This will be special
– Elon Musk
Tesla has outlined three distinct ways for shareholders and the public to take part in the event.
Due to limited space at Giga Texas, in-person attendance will be determined by a random drawing. The deadline for shareholders to enter the drawing is on Friday, October 10, by midnight. After the window closes, the random selection will be held, and those chosen will be notified during the week of October 13th. 
As usual, the selections are non-transferable and will require a valid government-issued ID for entry. You can sign up for the drawing at Tesla’s Investor Relations site.
For investors who wish to participate more directly than the livestream allows, Tesla is providing a virtual meeting option. This option is available to anyone who was a shareholder as of September 15th, 2025, which is the date of record for this meeting. The virtual meeting features the same livestream but adds the ability to submit votes and provide written comments on agenda items. 
Shareholders will need a unique code provided by their brokerage or transfer agent for this particular feature. 
You will need to verify your shares with Tesla to enter. You can either do automatic, linked verification with Plaid, Tesla’s partner for shareholder validation, or provide a dated copy of your shares on the date of record to Tesla IR for them to manually verify, which can take up to two weeks. Once verified, you can enter into the drawing, as well as request a virtual voting code.
The main draw for many will be the presentation and Q&A session with Elon Musk and other Tesla executives. This segment provides the most direct insight into Tesla’s product roadmap and strategic priorities. We always provide a detailed, bullet-point list of the highlights of every event, including every question and answer during the Q&A session.
High on the list of expected topics is the progress of Tesla’s autonomous vehicle program, including Robotaxi, FSD Supervised, and FSD Unsupervised. Also on the agenda will likely be updates on Cybercab, Robovan, the timelines for a more affordable next-generation platform, and the continued rollout of FSD globally.
A live demonstration of Tesla’s humanoid robot, Optimus, has been a staple of recent Tesla events, and this one is almost certainly going to be the same, especially as the header image for this year’s event features Optimus. We’re expecting to finally see the latest iteration of Optimus in its production V3 variant with its updated hands taking the stage at Giga Texas.
Musk is already hyping this event, saying that “this will be special.” It appears to be related to Optimus, but it really could be almost anything, including the new Roadster.
We’ll likely see updates on Tesla’s other programs, including Energy, Semi, Solar, and anything else they’ve got cooking behind the curtains at the Design Studio. This will be another must-watch event, and we’ll be sure to provide timely updates leading up to the event, and detailed coverage during and after the event as usual, so make sure you’re following us on Facebook, Instagram, X, Threads, or BlueSky.
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