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Hello! First post here.
We’re about to join the scheme for the first time – eligible since March last year, but held out for a bit to see what became available (specifically wanting an SUV for easier access).
Having seen our preferred cars disappear (or become out of the question AP-wise) over the last couple of quarters, we’re going to bite the bullet now that a few good (for us) options are available/affordable – the EV3, Countryman Monochrome and Enyaq, or possibly Renault Symbioz and Qashqai E-power. Just about to arrange test drives.
We’re really keen to go electric. We currently live in a terraced house with on-street parking, but in the next 2-4 months we will be moving to a house with a driveway, perfect for a wall charger.
I was told by one Mini dealership we could take delivery of a Countryman Monochrome in 3 weeks. Which begs the question – if we opted to order the Mini, or any other car that might have a short lead time, does anyone know if it would be possible to defer the installation of the wall charger until we’ve moved house?
In the meantime, our neighbour has been using a granny charger for his Audi for the last 18 months with no problem – we could do the same, and there are also fast chargers in town, a few miles away.
Many thanks!
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Hello & welcome,
I don’t see why you can’t defer installation untill you move into your new home. I woud speak to Motability of your wish to defer untill you move into your home with offroad parking. Alternatively (I would do it anyway), when Ohme or whoever gets in touch about you carrying out their survey, a simple reply suggesting you are moving into a home with offroad parking shortly and you will contact them regarding the installation once you have moved in.
As your probably aware, they wouldn’t install a charger on a property with on street parking, so its in your own interests to have the installation defered.
Yes you can charge with the “granny charger” in the meantime.
There’s no issue having the car in 3 weeks time. Contact motability closer to your move-in date to the property and claim the free wall charge installation.
If you are certain of the move-in date and have pictures of the consumer unit/electric meter along with pictures of where you’d like the charger installed, you can book the installation weeks in advance. This way you don’t have to wait 4/5 weeks after the move to have it installed.
I did exactly this and the installation was done much sooner.
As your probably aware, they wouldn’t install a charger on a property with on street parking, so its in your own interests to have the installation defered.
why? I thought this was allowed now, it is allowed in N.Ireland. Does someone on here not have one across the pavement at there house.
I have a footpath gully fitted (Kerbocharge) however, my house doesn’t have a footpath directly outside it, there’s a garden area so the charger is fitted to the ouside of my house which is about 3m away from the actual footpath.
If it’s (as he says) he has a terraced house then there’s no additional space between the footpath and the house to fit the charger.
Please excuse spelling/typos. Apart from being a clot it turns out I had one on my cerebellum that's now causing various problems!
Hello! First post here. We’re about to join the scheme for the first time – eligible since March last year, but held out for a bit to see what became available (specifically wanting an SUV for easier access). Having seen our preferred cars disappear (or become out of the question AP-wise) over the last couple of quarters, we’re going to bite the bullet now that a few good (for us) options are available/affordable – the EV3, Countryman Monochrome and Enyaq, or possibly Renault Symbioz and Qashqai E-power. Just about to arrange test drives. We’re really keen to go electric. We currently live in a terraced house with on-street parking, but in the next 2-4 months we will be moving to a house with a driveway, perfect for a wall charger. I was told by one Mini dealership we could take delivery of a Countryman Monochrome in 3 weeks. Which begs the question – if we opted to order the Mini, or any other car that might have a short lead time, does anyone know if it would be possible to defer the installation of the wall charger until we’ve moved house? In the meantime, our neighbour has been using a granny charger for his Audi for the last 18 months with no problem – we could do the same, and there are also fast chargers in town, a few miles away. Many thanks!
Regarding the house move is it a rented property, if so you will also need the landlords permission
Unfortunately I have suffered a brain injury and occasionally I get confused and often say the wrong thing.
I currently have a Nissan Qashqai E-Power, it’s a good size car, very economical, and it drives like a electric car.
I would like an electric vehicle, I have off street parking, live in a detached property which is about 50 years old but my electricity is on a looped supply to my next door neighbours property.
This would mean a new electrical supply, meaning my driveway getting dug up, so it’s not for me.
I would check your new property is suitable for a wall charger.
I currently have a Nissan Qashqai E-Power, it’s a good size car, very economical, and it drives like a electric car. I would like an electric vehicle, I have off street parking, live in a detached property which is about 50 years old but my electricity is on a looped supply to my next door neighbours property. This would mean a new electrical supply, meaning my driveway getting dug up, so it’s not for me. I would check your new property is suitable for a wall charger.
Not true. My property was de-looped, and they did not dig up the drive.
Nowadays they dig a hole in the pavement and a hole at rhe outside wall and “mole” the cable from one excavation to the other, the driveway was not touched.
Not true. My property was de-looped, and they did not dig up the drive. Nowadays they dig a hole in the pavement and a hole at rhe outside wall and “mole” the cable from one excavation to the other, the driveway was not touched.
Not every property is the same!
I have been on jobs where the DNO (contractors) have had to use a mini digger to excavate a channel across the drive, to the cable point of entry. On other jobs, its been a case of two holes and mole through.
Whils’t the DNO will reinstate the drive, t not guaranteed they will beable to make it an exact match depending on the age or material of the existing covering.
True Kezo. In some circumstances, you can get a charger fitted if your looped. The charger MB fit now is an ohme and that can load balance. So if you like me, and next door is looped to me. I have a 60A cut-out, and the load balancing is set to that. So if ever the load was over the ohme would reduce to half power, or if the CT clamp isn’t working.
I’ve not once hit that. I did look into getting a bigger fuse fitted and de-looping next door to us, and it was agreed, but the sub-contractors didn’t turn up to do the initial survey of works needed.
Maybe our looping is a strange one. Next to my fuse, is another smaller brown box attached to our cutoff, and a wire comes from that goes through the wall to nextdoor then another returns into the top of our cutoff. I’m no expert, all I know is had no issues getting the charger installed.
Now my meter is under the stairs, as is next door, it’s a semi-detached. So there is also. The plan was for them to have the meter moved outside. They agreed to it all. Then another company was taking over the works and their guy came round and said they won’t do the work as they won’t touch next door inside, without even looking at next door. As the consumer unit is also under the stairs inside the house.
Really I need to get back onto National grid who are the DNO, but for now there’s no issue. As it’s an older house, the main wire in he said is much thicker than newer ones. I am considering getting maybe just batteries and not solar panels, as we live in a 3-story townhouse built in the 1920s. Which I can charge overnight when not charging the car, and run most of the daytime energy off those. We average about 7.5kw a day during peak times. Again, I have no real clue as to what or the costs to have it done, obviously as cheaply as possible.
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Really I need to get back onto National grid who are the DNO, but for now there’s no issue. As it’s an older house, the main wire in he said is much thicker than newer ones. I am considering getting maybe just batteries and not solar panels, as we live in a 3-story townhouse built in the 1920s. Which I can charge overnight when not charging the car, and run most of the daytime energy off those. We average about 7.5kw a day during peak times. Again, I have no real clue as to what or the costs to have it done, obviously as cheaply as possible.
National Grid (Western Power, as I still refer to them) are very good, it worth getting back intouch with them to fit an 80A fuse. Hopefully you will get a different contractor or gang
If the three cables are the same size, it could be two neighbours are looped from the main supply in your house. Whils’t its not common, its also not unheard of.
National Grid (Western Power, as I still refer to them) are very good, it worth getting back intouch with them to fit an 80A fuse. Hopefully you will get a different contractor or gang If the three cables are the same size, it could be two neighbours are looped from the main supply in your house. Whils’t its not common, its also not unheard of.
This picture is from before we had the Ev charger installed and had a new smart meter installed, as these ones never ever connected or sent data. One I sent to Ohme for the EV install survey.
The smaller box to the far left and the wire going up is next door’s supply, and it comes back into the top of our cut-off.
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