My HA were pretty clueless, I don’t mean that in a derisory way, turned out I’m the first person that’d asked to fit a charger so they were pretty much having to make up policy as we went along.
Got there in the end with a lot of help fro Kezo of course!. In fact it’s still ongoing even after the charger was fitted, they asked me today for all sorts of post-install information/documents.
Ohme originally refused to install as I don’t have a driveway and my cable runs over (well through!) a public footpath to get from my house to the car. Luckily my local council were trialing a system called KerboCharge and agreed to add me to their trial, a couple of weeks and £300 later I now have a cable gully fitted to run my cable through which is fully approved by the highways agency.
After that was sorted and photos sent to Ohme the install went ahead. Did my first home charge Wedmesday night and after a bit of panic about the car showing a red “I’m not charging” light all went to plan at 23:31 when the charger kicked in and started charging. Also did a bit of washing and tumble drying to take advantage of the cheap electricity (doing some tumble drying tonight as well!).
One thing to look out for is not to panic the first morning after when you find your in home display is saying you’ve used £13.37 worth of electricity as mine did!. Most if not all (not sure) IHD’s can’t detect dual tariffs and think all use is at the full daily rate. The Ohme App I used to charge says £3.39 for 45kWh/155 miles of added range so 2.2p per mile compared to 17.6p for my previous Ateca (36mpg).
Of course in the summer when the battery warms up the range and amount of added miles per kWh increase it should be well under 2p per mile.
Please excuse spelling/typos. Apart from being a clot it turns out I had one on my cerebellum that's now causing various problems!