Unfortunately, only partially [1]:

- card acceptance is only required for 50 kW+ chargers. All the relatively low power chargers at supermarkets, shopping malls and other public venues? They can get by with offering QR codes that are all too often abused for phishing campaigns [2][3] and still have the issue with requiring some sort of app.

- the "card acceptance" may also be fulfilled by PSD2 compliant mobile banking apps, so if you got a rooted phone (where Google Pay is a cat-and-mouse game), a phone whose vendor is under sanctions and thus doesn't get the Google ecosystem or don't want to involve Google Pay, Apple Pay, PayPal or the likes in your daily life, you're screwed just as well at these charger points

On top of that, the standard to publish pricing information to the public coordination exchange is a hot XML/SOAP mess [4].

[1] https://nationale-leitstelle.de/ladeinfrastruktur-im-eu-kont...

[2] https://www.adac.de/news/verkehr-quishing-parkautomaten/

[3] https://www.adac.de/news/auto-quishing-betrug-ladesaeule/

[4] https://nationale-leitstelle.de/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/M...