Reply To: Getting permission & my home charger experience The process so far

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Glos Guy
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    I’m some years off getting an EV, but can I ask a question about the practicalities of charger installation?

    We have an attached garage that we park the car in, so I would want a wall box charger installed inside there, rather than on an outside wall. The garage has power (wall sockets) but is some distance from the main electric meter.

    Do you have to have a new hard wired connection all the way from the wall charger to the electric meter? This would be a major problem in my house, as that would mean going through 4 rooms, some of which have 2ft thick stone walls, and I wouldn’t want unsightly trunking on the walls throughout the house. I have two separate fuse boxes and one is a much shorter distance from the garage. Would they be able to connect to that, rather then the main meter?