How easy is it to install a home high-speed EV charger? | Fifth Gear

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[Danny-]

Being an electrician and installing EV charging points in people homes, I can honestly say for what they are they are so over priced, £1000 is nuts. I am sure the price will come down soon.
I have an Hybrid VW Tiguan on order and what I have installed at my house is a 32amp external commando socket, about £20 to purchase and about 1hour to install, then I purchased a 32amp/7.2 KW charging lead from a uk manufacture, this come with an in-line control box which deals with all the earth monitoring and cut out when the car is charged, that was around £130, There are way around the cost and you can save money,
I understand it is easy for me do and say all this.
Also correction on what was said in the video, you can have the charger as far away from the house as you want, long as the correct cable calculations are done and the installation method is correct.

[Participant]

"With that, Ricky got his big drill out"...and the rest is history

[Markcain]

It's very easy if you pay someone else to do it lol

[IAmSoMuchBetterThanYou]

Really easy. I paid a bloke to do it in 2015 and it has worked perfectly ever since.

[allym]

Why did Ricky screw through the flashing tape to fix the cable cleats?? Need a roofer now too! 😂

[victorsvoice]

All new buildings should be equipped with solar and Ev charging points.

[vladx]

To be honest, if you don’t drive much a regular UK household plug with a good ground is all I really needed to drive about town. A wall box is nice for convenience and more weather-proof but if you can reach an existing plug it’s not strictly necessary.

[MarlonKingShow]

What is security on these ev chargers? Can I lock it and stop others from using it when I'm not home?

[mccleerymichaelable]

A word of warning now... the OZEV grant will not be available after end of March. And if youve applied for one, the charging unit must have its installation complete by 31st March to qualify!

[IDann]

You’ve got to be incredibly talented to get home with your car at 0% to be able to charge from 0 to 100% a 64kwh car for 28hours on a domestic outlet.

[dscotia]

Ah, early Kia Soul EV uses two charging standards for its inlets – Type 1 and CHAdeMO exactly the same as the first gen Leaf

[izools]

I find it a bit cheeky referring to a single phase 32A charger as "Fast". Fast would be a HVDC CHAdeMO charger running off it's own dedicated 3x63A three phase supply (at the very least), costing over £10, 000 for the charger itself plus whatever the DNO want to charge for running a three phase supply into your house - if at all possible.

[mikewhitehead]

a company came out to install a charge point at my home and found 5 things wrong that needed rectifying. the house isn't rediculously old and the electrics are in no way unsafe either.

[peteraustin]

You failed to mention that the Government grant comes to an end in March 2022.

[loufadoros]

I drive a Kia e soul as a delivery car, currently we park to a parking lot instead of company premises and return the keys...

[arnoldtabor]

Will people stop saying it does 280 miles ... It doesn't unless it's a perfect no traffic warm day ... It does real world about 60 to 120 miles less depending on where you're driving, how you're driving, motorway, Broad or city, is it cold, is it wet ... Etc I will say though the only car I've test driven that had about 200 miles range was the Kia soul ev

[diverbob]

and how many scroats are gonna be nicking the cables for the copper content or worse yet causing damage or harm, can you imagine

[stuartsinclair]

Apparently there is around 60, 000 Charing points not 25, 000

[handlesarefeckinstupid]

What if you have a looped 60A power supply.. not so simple then.

[adamchase]

One problem i see is that imagine there’s 4 EV cars in your home in the near future, you can only charge one car at a time, so the smartphone charger scenario springs to mind where everyone wants power first and you usually ends up causing a fight.