The Easee electric car charger is banned from sale in Sweden

The Norwegian manufacturer is appealing the decision.

In February, the Swedish Safety and Security Authority announced that the Easee Home and Easee Charge chargers have “serious faults and deficiencies”, and that the Stavanger-based manufacturer risks being banned from trading in the Swedish market.

In its reply to the Swedish Electrical Safety Authority, Easee has documented and justified how they believe their chargers meet the safety requirements.

The Swedish Safety Agency has now gone through the equivalent of Easee and concluded to impose a marketing ban on the chargers. Altogether, 100,000 of these have been sold on the Swedish market.

Pointing to the RCD

It was after a review of six popular home chargers that the Swedish Electrical Authority notified Easee that they believe their chargers do not meet all safety requirements.

In connection with the sales ban, Inspector of the Swedish Electrical Safety Authority, Joel Lee Antman, states the following in a press release:

– The manufacturer has used an electronic earth fault circuit breaker solution instead of an electromechanical one. There is a risk that the earth fault circuit breaker does not always trip when and as it should.

The Swedish Safety Agency writes that the manufacturer must take back the charging boxes that have been banned from sale from their dealers.

The decision also means that the manufacturer is obliged to rectify defects in already installed charging boxes. What kind of measures will be implemented is up to the manufacturer to communicate and enforce.

– We understand that people may be concerned, but manufacturers who receive this type of feedback are usually quick to meet the demands made, says Antman.

– Will appeal and fight against the decision

– We strongly disagree with the decision and will do everything we can to look after customers, partners and employees. Our main focus has always been people and safety, and we will continue to fight against this decision, says founder and general manager of Easee, Jonas Helmikstøl, in a press release.

Easee is working on an appeal against both the sales ban and the immediate accession, and emphasizes that there have been no events that form the basis for the imposed sales ban.

What about the Norwegian market?

The Swedish Safety Agency’s decision only applies to Sweden, Easee writes in its press release.

The Norwegian Communications Authority (Nkom), which is the responsible supervisory authority, has pointed out that basically the same rules apply to the entire EEA area.

– This means that if a decision is made in Sweden, the manufacturer is obliged to follow up on this also in other countries where they have sold the product, stated department director of the Spectrum Department in Nkom, John-Eivind Velure, when it became known that the Swedish Electrical Authority considered a trading ban.

On Wednesday morning, Velure says that they are in the process of taking a closer look at the report to the Swedish Safety Agency, but that the regulations state that the manufacturer is obliged to follow up on a marketing ban in other countries.

Nkom is now assessing which concrete measures are necessary to take in this case.