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Apologies if this has been covered previously.
Considering going electric next time but wondering what is / isn’t covered with home charger installation.
Our electricity meter and trip switches are to right of front door (outside / inside respectively) but garage is detached to left of house. I use a wheelchair so there’s raised path of slabs to get other side of door, then another paving slab path between house and garage. So ideally the cable would need to go under the 2 paths – really would prefer not to have unsightly cable visible so would burying cable and going under the 2 paths be included or would that be something I would have to cover?
I also estimate the distance is about 7 / 8 meters.
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I had a long run and the cable went under a path, then lawn and terminated on a post. Anything can be done, but there will be a cost. I was told that the paving slabs may break, and they did. I paid a small fortune (£700) for my free charger. It hurt at the time, but I am very happy now, so much so, I can’t see me going back to petrol.
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Where Motability is concerned it will most likely come under a non standard installation.
You could perhaps limit the extra cost by having the charger fixed to the house wall and the charging cable could go over the little grass area at the side and charging done on the drive or if it will fit under the garage door. Having a E-Pod charger will allow you different lengths of charging upto 15m cable if required.
DumfriesDik and Kezo – thanks.
Quite happy to pay a bit to have it neat, only doing it once.
Would I need to arrange and sort that myself or would whoever does install do it and then charge me for what wasn’t included?
Ohme installers will do the extra work but, their prices are on the high side. If you choose to sort it yourself, do so before you put in application survey.
There is no harm in getting a local electrician in, to give you a Ohme install quote, so you have a ballpark figure of whats a reasonable price as a Motability non standard install.
If it helps, consider the cost of getting the charger installed as you like it over the savings you gain from much cheaper fuel. If you’ve a smart meter, Octopus Go costs 7p per kWh. Taking into account most cars return 3.5 miles per kWh (more in the summer potentially less in winter) then it costs 2p per mile.
If you estimate petrol costs £6 per gallon and you get 40miles from that gallon that’s 15p per mile.
If your install costs £700 and you’re saving 13p for every mile you drive, the charger install is paid for in 53,846 miles. Thats, 4years? Less if petrol costs much more than £6 per gallon.
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I wasn’t too worried about my side path and the broken slabs were just put back down on some fresh mortar. I guess you could replace slabs that broke? As @kezo says, the whole install was handled by Ohme and their sub-contractors, you don’t have to do anything except provide the information of the location together with some photographs. You have to jump through hoops in order but they are pretty easy. Also, some of the charge leads can be quite long. Mine is 5m but I think 8m could be an option which may help you?
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If it helps, consider the cost of getting the charger installed as you like it over the savings you gain from much cheaper fuel. If you’ve a smart meter, Octopus Go costs 7p per kWh. Taking into account most cars return 3.5 miles per kWh (more in the summer potentially less in winter) then it costs 2p per mile. If you estimate petrol costs £6 per gallon and you get 40miles from that gallon that’s 15p per mile. If your install costs £700 and you’re saving 13p for every mile you drive, the charger install is paid for in 53,846 miles. Thats, 4years? Less if petrol costs much more than £6 per gallon.
The OG rate offered will vary by region
Thats something to consider as OG may suit some but wont suit all imo
The daily OG rate for my area is 23.71p / kWh which is 2p dearer than my standard BG tariff
Point being your homes family size and mileage pa should first be considered before deciding jumping to opt for an off peak EV Tariff
As a family of 4 and driving only 6000 miles or less pa it dosent pay me to swap just yet
As a family of 4 and driving only 6000 miles or less pa it dosent pay me to swap just yet
Its a tricky one knowing when to swap. I do about 8k a year but my average rate is now 14.4p/kWh.
I am mindful of doing white good stuff during off peak as well, unless it’s not convenient to do so.
Best of luck to anyone trying to figure out when to switch to dual rates!
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The OG rate offered will vary by region Thats something to consider as OG may suit some but wont suit all imo The daily OG rate for my area is 23.71p / kWh which is 2p dearer than my standard BG tariff Point being your homes family size and mileage pa should first be considered before deciding jumping to opt for an off peak EV Tariff As a family of 4 and driving only 6000 miles or less pa it dosent pay me to swap just yet
I’m leaning to your way of thinking, especially for my parents, who do 7000 miles over 3 years.
My Octopus fix is 22.3p for 12 month
I use say 50kW a week during day = £11.15
I use 40kW to charge car = £8.92
Total on standard tariff £20.07
Octopus GO is 23.59p (Day rate) and 8,5p at night.
The 50kW day rate = £11.79
40kW charge car = £3.40
Total on GO =£15.19
Potential saving £4.88
The problem, as I see it is the day rate can and will increase with Ofgem price cap on 1st October and 1st January over winter, which could see the small amount, I could have saved wiped out!
Prices will be different (cheaper) for intelligent Octopus Go but, the same fluctuation occurs on the day rate in line with the price cap!
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