Chargecloud, a Cologne-based charge point management vendor, announced at the Intercharge Network Conference in Berlin on September 1, 2026 that it has integrated Hubject's Plug and Charge public key infrastructure into its own management system. Operators running on Chargecloud get the feature without doing an integration themselves. Until now Plug and Charge has largely been a DC fast-charging story; this puts it on AC points, which is where most charging actually happens.
The interesting part is where the work landed. Nothing changed in the charger: the prerequisites Hubject names are an ISO 15118-2 capable charging point, a correspondingly equipped vehicle and a valid contract certificate stored in the vehicle by a Plug and Charge capable e-mobility provider. Everything else is certificate handling between the backend and a PKI. That is the same layer an OCPP backend like Plugchoice occupies, and it is why the same capability is not tied to one vendor's hardware.
Two things follow for anyone with AC points on private terrain. First, ISO 15118-2 support in the charger is the hard prerequisite, and it is worth knowing which of your models actually have it before anyone promises driver-side convenience. Second, the gap between having it and using it is a PKI relationship and certificate handling, not a protocol rewrite. With AFIR obligations arriving on January 1, 2027, that distinction decides whether a site needs new hardware or new software.
Sources: electrive.com, all-about-industries.com.