I’m hoping someone can help me with a bit of a heads up. I am thinking of switching to a Skoda Enyaq and was wondering what the process of having the charging cable fitted as i live in a housing association terraced house where i have lived for around 30 year. I have no drive but my car parking space is just around 20ft from my front door and the electricity box is just inside the front door, so i would walk down the path open my gate and there’s a 3ft path and there’s the boot of my car. Only the postman and delivery drivers use this path as it’s out of the way from any public but obviously the public could walk around this path should they wish. It’s not my private car space but I have always used this exact space for 30 years as all the neighbours all have their usual spaces. Should this be a stumbling block is it still worth considering an Electric Vehicle as obviously having read a lot on this forum site the cheapest way to charge is with a home charger or can you find a cheap alternative IE car parks, I only do around 100 miles a week and travel to see family around 3 times a year which would be a 700 mile round trip. Also would it be someone from Skoda to come and check all this or is it a private company? sorry there’s a lot of questions so thanks in advance for any information provided.
You will need your HA to cofirm in writing or to Ohme, you have a designated parking space. This only needs to be tempory untill the charger installation has been completed, so if they reject designating the space, you could always ask them to do so on a tempory measure. You will also need the HA’s permission to instal a charger, so its best to get everything in order here prior to ordering a car.
If your consumer unit is on the wall the path goes along, this would make the install simpler but not impposible if it was to the other side of the door.
You can get a cable gully or cable cover specifically for going over paths if needed.