Watch this on the EV Cafe News broadcast from 13/02/26 here: <https://youtu.be/n36EmMGpjE4>
Versinetic has published a new industry guide warning that 2026 EV charging standards will fundamentally affect how chargers are designed, certified, bought and deployed across the UK.
Translation? Charging hardware is entering its grown-up phase.
The guide highlights a convergence of tighter regulation and new technical protocols, including wider adoption of ISO 15118 (Plug & Charge) and migration to OCPP 2.0.1 / 2.1, all of which raise the bar on cybersecurity, interoperability, smart charging and back-office integration.
Add in the UK’s Smart Charge Points Regulations and Public Charge Point Regulations, and suddenly chargers aren’t just bits of metal with cables, they’re regulated digital infrastructure.
Versinetic’s Managing Director Dunstan Power puts it bluntly: compliance decisions get locked in early.
Design choices around hardware architecture, firmware and security can’t simply be 'retrofitted later' without pain. By the time non-compliance becomes visible, the cost and disruption are usually far higher than anyone expected.
The EV Café Takeaway:
"It is a really competitive market and these regulations will sort the wheat from the chaff".
"Charging has officially grown up. Fleets that still treat infrastructure as an afterthought are about to feel it".