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.
Solving 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.
What is the MID-Certification?
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.
